Compare And Contrast Superman And Me

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09/05/2011 Superman and me essay Superman and me starts off with Alexis life as a small Indian boy who grew up on a impoverished Spokane Indian Reservation. Alexis was no ordinary Spokane Indian, he had an extraordinary mind. He thought himself how to read at the age of three by reading superman comics. Alexis then goes on to impress me even more as he teaches himself about paragraphs and how they relate to the real world. “The purpose of a paragraph. I didn’t have the vocabulary to say “paragraph,” but I realized that a paragraph was a fence that held words. The words inside a paragraph worked together for a common purpose. They had some specific reason for being inside the same fence. This knowledge delighted me. I began to think of everything in terms of paragraphs. Our reservation was a small paragraph within the United States. ” (Sherman Alexis) After reading that I was both appalled and jealous. The average three year old can barely even talk but, for him to be able to read and understand sentence structure at the age of three was just amazing. Superman and Me was also a very shocking and revealing look into the Native American culture. In his essay he starts to expresses how society looks down upon the Native American people. “We were Indian children who were expected to be stupid. Most lived up to those…show more content…
In Alexie’s Indian reservation anyone who was smart was viewed as someone traitor and are not accepted into the community all because they were smart. Alexie thought himself how to read, so when he went to school he was more ahead of the other children in his Indian reservation who were still struggling with reading. The other classmates did not not like the fact that he was smart, so therefore he would get into fights with other classmates due to the classmates didn’t want him to answer a question that the teacher had asked due to the fact that he was

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