She tried to convince him that in the Indian culture, long hair is a sign for masculinity and balance but Wind-Wolf was too hard-headed to understand. Wind-Wolf’s father decided to take a stand so he wrote a letter to Wind-Wolf’s teacher and explained to her that Wind-Wolf was an intelligent boy. Wind-Wolf was not one of the kids that learned things from a textbook, he learned things through life. For the first five years of his life, he was surrounded by various religions including Protestant, Catholic, Asian Buddhist, and Tibetan Lamaist. He was also exposed to many sacred traditions, specifically the Indian traditions.
INDIAN EDUCATION DEBORA WIEST IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE ABSTRACT Indian Education is a narrative about the hard life that one Indian boy endured while growing up. Being a minority living on an Indian Reservation, made him make decisions that would change his life for the better. This is a story of emotional and physical trauma from early childhood on. Living on mainly government assistance for every basic need caused this young man to take his abusive ordeal and turn his life into something very powerful. INDIAN EDUCATION “Indian Education” is a biography written by Sherman Alexie.
I began to think that the author is now telling us how he began his journey or struggles of reading. Sherman then begins to explain how his family struggled through life living off of whatever means they could, as he depicted by saying “We lived on a combination of irregular paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus food” (583). Now, the essay to me has unfolded as a young Indian boy on a reservation that has a passion for reading but his family is dealing with financial poverty. He has to overcome the thoughts and beliefs of his tribe as well as the outside public opinion that Indians are not smart. Sherman Alexie takes us through a journey of how he discovered reading and how it became a passion to him.
The poems are narrated in first person, often from a witch or unknown creature and the prose is narrated limited from Tayo perspective. For Tayo, the stories represent the Native American understanding of the world that he grew up with but that the white schools, the army, and the doctors tried to convince him were incorrect. As he remembers the old stories, Tayo reconnects with his community. He recovers from the physical pain of the war, and returns the rain to his land. The stories teach Tayo that he is not alone.
Sherman Alexie’s essay confirms and extends tough argument in character and success, “superman and me” discuss in his essay the experience he had when he was a boy living in the Indian reservation and how reading and writing greatly affected his life. This shorts story describes the young Indian boy’s fascination with literature, his intelligence as an Indian, and how he becomes a teacher of creative writing for Indian children. I believe that Sherman Alexis had the character traits to succeed in life. Sherman Alexie was an Indian boy who didn't really have anything going on in his life. His family literally worked pay-check to pay-check just to make ends meet.
“Superman is me” Reading can be a hobby, a job, or even entertaining pleasure to some, but for Sherman Alexie it was a means of survival. He found this as a tool to forget and dismiss his problems by getting lost in the fluttered words of texts. Whether it was manuals, newspapers, magazines, mail, or books it never really mattered to him. In his renowned writing piece The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman And Me, Alexie demonstrates the beginnings foundation of which dictated his career as a writer as well as the social endeavors the early Native Americans in their Reserve lived under in America. Alexie recalls the moment he picked up a Superman comic book, despite lacking the abilities to read even read at his early age and somehow
In Sherman Alexie’s essay “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me,” Alexie describes how the negative expectations affected him and how he overcame them. Alexie says, “They wanted me to stay quiet, when the non- Indian teacher asked for answers, for volunteers, for help. We were Indian children who were expected to be stupid” (Alexie, 17). The negative expectations for Alexie and all other Indians were, to act unintelligent around people who weren’t Indian. Most of the Indians lived up to those expectations.
Jordan Russell Ms. Mueser Writing July 22,2015 In the personal writing A memoir of a Bilingual Childhood by Richard Rodriguez, Richard uses rhetorical style alternating between persuasive and personal essay that shows his readers a part of life that many have never experienced, and if they have experienced can help them reflect on how they felt going through this. life growing up for Rodriguez originally Spanish speaking, but when his family moved to the states; he wanted to fit in to his society his surroundings. English became a personal goal for him, but to not just speak it well to master it so that he wouldn’t feel like he didn’t belong. Rodriguez describes his journey through his grandmother as “a woman of Mexico” and her no interest of the “gringo society”(36). Richard Rodriguez has garnered significant media attention over the last twenty years by presenting the unique figure of a Hispanic person who is vocally against such policies as bilingual education and affirmative action.
Like Mr. Rodriguez himself, I did not know English except for those easy words like Hello, Goodbye, how are you, and that's particularly it. Stepping into my first classroom in United States was scary and panic-stricken, especially when you know your the only one who cannot speak English. I remained quiet for weeks and tried my best to learn, quickly found myself watching PBS kids and reading massive amount of books just so I can catch up to the rest of the kids at their whereabouts. The high level of anxiety will struck because public
When we face difficulties in daily life, sharing is the best way to deal with the problems. So a problem shared is a problem solved. Like most of the people, I didn’t understand this statement until I read a book last month. The wonderful book is called Front of the class which tells a story about a young man named Bobo who has Tourette syndrome. During his childhood, friends and teachers even his parents accuses him of making too much tics and noises at school.