Sherman Alexie’s short essay “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” is about Alexie’s personal struggles and joys of literacy. Early in the essay Alexie explains how he started to learn to read by first understanding how paragraphs worked. Alexie started using the analogy that his reservation was a small paragraph within the United States just like a paragraph is a small part of a much larger story. Once he understood paragraphs, he then moved to Superman comics. Alexie also read from his father's vast collection of books, which were acquired mostly from pawnshops and second hand stores since paychecks were far and few between on the reservation.
Her parents highly valued education and wanted her to receive the same education that boys receive. She was the third born of ten children. Throughout her life she attended private schools, such as North Grammar school, where her father was the first principle. He taught her everything she needed and wanted to know about astronomy first hand using his very own telescope. Marie Mitchell
Reading and Lives “Superman and Me,” written by Sherman Alexie, explains Alexie's life as an Indian boy and how writing and reading shaped his life into what it is today. This short essay talks about how he first learned how to read, and the important of reading saved his life and others. While reading I found some connections between me and Alexie’s story. Alexie starts his story by introducing to his reader his background. He learned how to read at the age of three using a "Superman" comic book.
Math was also a favorite subject for Abe. Abe and his family moved to Illinois when he was 21 years old. After he helped them to get settled, he left to start a life of his own.
Then everybody knew his name; Sheldon Allan He was born September 25, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois . This is where he grew up with his sister ,Peggy Meyers. His parents names were Nathan and Helen silverstein. He was very private .Not even his publisher knew too much about him. What I know is he went to Roosevelt High School , then college, but soon got kick out.
Reading became a passion with him as well as writing. He carried books and pen hidden under his clothes and read and write wherever he could. Brandon’s education in Elementary was maintained throughout six years with honors and awards each year. He was quickly preparing to enter the secondary. But unfortunately every year in that level except the fourth year, he was always transferring into other school: from New Jersey to the schools in Frankfurt Germany to Virginia schools and finally North Carolina.
Mr. Bradbury started his literary career as the self-publisher of the fanzine Futuria Fantasia when he was 18. The fanzine’s four issues were anthologized and reissued in 2007 by Graham Press. The fanzine was bankrolled by Forrest J. Ackerman, one of science fiction’s greatest fans and the man said to have coined the term sci-fi; only 100 original copies were printed. They contain early work by such future science fiction luminaries as Hannes Bok and Robert
Robert Cormier began writing when he was in first grade. He first goal was to become a writer when he was in seventh grade. When he began writing he said, “I can’t remember a time when I was trying to get something down on paper.” A nun at Robert’s school encouraged him to write a poem. He attended Leominster High School, graduating as president of his class. As a freshman at Fitchburg State College, he had his first story published when a college
His mother, Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, was a former schoolteacher. For the most part Steinbeck, who grew up with three sisters, had a happy childhood. He was shy but smart and early in his life formed an appreciation for the land, and in particular California’s Salinas Valley, which would greatly inform his later writing. According to accounts, Steinbeck made the decision at the age of 14 to become a writer and often locked himself in his bedroom to write poems
Jeannie Neal-Ward Ms. Kearney Kok English 91 July 7, 2013 To be or not to be is the question Born February 13, 1977 and the oldest of 3; I have 2 younger brothers; I was able to experience some of the best ways of learning how to read and write while attending Arlington Elementary. I remember one teacher as she still stands out to me but I just can not recall her name. I was in the first grade and she would pull me out of class to show me how to read. It was 1st grade that I also learned how to begin writing. I remember reading books such as the Cat and the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham that were just a few that I remember learning how to read from.