Oscar Torres Essays - American Literature, Coeur DAlene People

Oscar Torres Professor Johnson English 105 7 September 2017 In Sherman Alexie's "Superman And Me " short story Alexie talks about how he was able to teach himself the English literature coming from a unprivileged native America family by reading supermen comics. Alexie tells how he was introduced, changed, and conqu ered the language to become a writer as an Indian. The story is told in a first person which allows you to fully grasp his road to a writer and how he incorporated the English language to his family and the world he l ived in. In consummation Alexie's main point is that you don't have to be upper class to learn. Alexie challenged the stereotypes that came with him being a reservation born Indian and prospering in education. It's common for people to get a click from a lesson learned. In Alexie's story he talked about how the realized what a paragraph was and how it changed the way he viewed the world and it effect in the English literature. " When I first understood, with a sudden clarity, 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." Alexie expressed his creativity with the metaphor of the fence in that quote. The metaphor shows an advanced way a person can make connections to better their future experience in the field it was learned In conclusion alexie understood and took his realization of a paragraph and used it to better himself as a person, as a writer, and to checkmate possible stereotypes behind an Indian boy. Alexie has many lessons scattered through superman and me but after all I believe the true meaning is to use a lesso n learned and build with it, bui ld as far and deep as you can.