- A smart Indian would be a “dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed” because a change can happen with one person. The high authorities are scared that Indian children would learn to read and be able to overthrow the high authorities. In order to forbid that from happening they lower the Indian kids confidenceĀ Ā because they are “ridiculed” by high authorities. After that; I’m Assuming that Indian children are scared to go through humiliation so they adopt this self-defeating idea.
- When Sherman Alexie says “I was trying to save my life” he means that he was trying to make something out of his education, and future. In paragraph 8 he tells us ” Despite all the books I read, I am still surprised I became a writer”; Alexie would visit the schools as often and would see kids trying “to save their lives” by writing their own poems, short stories and novels.
- Based on Alexie’s story to break free of stereotypes and dead ends to forge a path to success, one must overcome the negativity that come from others and keep it up although it may bother others. Just like Alexie when he tried answering the question his teachers would ask; and his own classmates didn’t want him answering he still answered, because he decided to block out the negativity that came from his classmates.
- Sherman Alexie describes well what a paragraph is but it could of helped if he could of added a bit more detail into it, ” a paragraph was a fence that held words of theĀ Topic“. At least one more word to describe a paragraph.
“superman”- Kathleen
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