" Sherman Alexie is one such writer. ... Sherman Alexie is Native American, and his stories expose one of America's dirty little secrets. ... Sherman Alexie was born on October 7, 1966 in WellPoint, Washington. ... Sherman Alexie began his professional career in 1990 when his work was published in Hanging Loose magazine. ... After completing "The Lone Ranger and Tonto: Fistfight in Heaven," it is obvious to me that Sherman Alexie is as Bob Hirshon so aptly put it, "one of the major lyric voices of our time" (Alexie, p xiii). ...

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In his book, "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me," Sherman Alexie explains how he taught himself to read by perusing through a Superman comic book at the age of 3. ... Alexie's intelligence and will to learn as a child is an inspiring story. ... It is because of people like Sherman Alexie that our country's morals, values, and ideas are progressing and changing with time. ... There is a great lesson to learn from Alexie in this piece of writing. ... That is exactly what Sherman Alexie is doing here. ...

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"Superman and Me" is a short story written by Sherman Alexie. ... Alexie is incorrect that a literate person is necessarily a dangerous person because humans are different in many aspects. ... Opposite to Alexie's idea, a literate person tends to be non-violent due to having a higher education. ... However, Alexie may be right about violence solving some problems, even if that is not the case most of the time. ... Overall, Alexie's idea lacks merit due to the nature of most people....

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In the poem, "The Amtrak from Boston to New York," by Sherman Alexie, the author introduces two characters from different walks of life, which are brought together on an Amtrak from Boston to New York. ... Alexie shows that the Native American's history is more of importance than the white woman's. Sherman Alexie uses imagery to identify the visual surroundings of where the poem is taken place. ... Sherman Alexie's "The Amtrak from Boston to New York," uses diction to identify speaker's internal and external conflict. ... Sherman Alexie's "Th...

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Review of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie Sherman Alexie's debiut The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven gives its readers an insight into the contemporary Native American life. ... The collection does not seem to have one prominent character, but a bunch of Alexie's "cousins." ... By introducing Thomas, Alexie creates an atmosphere of nostalgia. ... Alexie stops his narration and for a few paragraphs illustrates to the reader what Thomas meant by saying not to slow dance with skeletons. ... Sherman Alexie's book was important, it started...

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Sherman Alexie is a prominent Native American writer, filmmaker and poet. ... Alexie's first novel, Reservation Blues, was published in 1995 and is no exception to this. ... Alexie opens each chapter with Blues lyrics, each song lamenting some wretched aspect of Native American life and relating to foregoing chapter. ... By adopting Blues music, Alexie is also acknowledging the shared history of African Americans and Native Americans at the hands of white men. ... Throughout these dreams Alexie portrays the underhand tactics employed by white people in order to slaughter and oppress the ...

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As the title of Alexie's tale indicates this story is primarily about a Native tradition, in this case a Spokane tradition involving ritual drug use. ... The exact drug used in Alexie's story is not labeled but is probably from a similar substance. ... Lee indicates on pages 113 through 114 that Thomas-Builds-The-Fire features in other tales by Alexie, which may in fact be Alexie's way of creating a fictional tribal storyteller to carry on the tradition through the written word rather than relying on oral traditions more difficult to continue in modern society. ... This comes t...

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Two people who had to work hard to overcome their difficulties were Amy Tan, the author of "Mother Tongue"" and Sherman Alexie, author of "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me". ... Even though both Tan and Alexie had similar obstacles, Alexie's obstacles were harder to face. ... Alexie learn to read with a Superman comic book. ... Just like Tan, Sherman Alexie had to face a similar experience, but as an Indian wanting to refuse to fail in school. ... Amy Tan and Sherman Alexie having two different backgrounds had the same goals to become writers. ...

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Sherman Alexies poems are based around his life as it was and is rather than what he wishes it was or could have been. ... Identity crisis, poverty, hunger, alcoholism, sexual frustration; all of these are issues which plague Alexie in his childhood and early adulthood. ... Shermans father drank, and so did Thomas", Juniors, and Chess and Checkers fathers. ... (Alexie, 82) Alexie relates a Native American awards banquet in his book, One Stick Song, " speaker after speaker extolled the virtues of all the highly successful Indian men .brave, intelligent, loving, and respectful leaders .warriors ...

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Sherman Alexie wraps himself in a richly intertextual quilt of visions for his first foray into major league publishing, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. ... Unlike many Native American authors, Alexie is as apt to evoke British rocker John Lennon or African American novelist Toni Morrison in his visions as he is to pay homage to other Native American artists such as Leslie Silko or Gerald Vizenor. The visions Alexie sews together in this new collection of short stories possess power--the power to "pick up the pieces of a story from the street and change the world for a few mo...

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Sherman Alexie was born in October 1966. ... Indian Killer, by Sherman Alexie, was published in 1996. ... (Alexie 94). ... The theme of alcoholism can also be found in short stories by Sherman Alexie and other Native American writers. The theme is especially prominent in the short story "Because My Father Always Said He Was The Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play "The Star-Spangled Banner" At Woodstock", by Sherman Alexie, which can be found in his collection of stories, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight In Heaven. ...

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Compare Contrast Critical Short between Flight Patterns and Search Engine Sherman Alexie, author of the short stories Flight Patterns and Search Engine integrates an aesthetically presentable writing style with a sociopolitical agenda. ... Poetry is in this story Alexie's metaphor for racial boundary, for something that Anglos have and Native Americans cannot participate in. ... Her interest in a practice that is not seen as one that multiethnic and multinational groups contribute to or participate in is Alexie's illustration of racial and cultural difference. ... Alexie demons...

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In the "Introduction" of the 2015 edition of the Best American Poetry (BAP), Native American poet and writer, Sherman Alexie recounts the extensive editorial processes and difficulties he endured in order to compile the best 75 poetic works of 2015. ... Alexie also took further precautions in order to make his poetic compilations as fair as possible. ... This is supported when Alexie states that, "Approximately 60% of the poets are female. ... Soon, Hudson revealed his true identity and Alexie was faced with a dilemma. ... Alexie himself writes, "Nepotism is as common as o...

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Furthermore, Sherman Alexie is a person with high EQ. ... "As a native American, I want to hate this country and it's contradictionsHere in Seattle, I exist" (Alexie 329). ... Sherman Alexie accustomed to use his high EQ for people without showing them his dissatisfaction. 3. ...

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Readers also see in "Blankets," by Sherman Alexie, that this short story about Native Americans also brings a sense of endearment, but towards parents instead of lovers. ... Sherman Alexie's "Blankets" shows the struggles that occur in a Native American's life and how these struggles can cause younger generations to lash out against their elders. ... There would come a time when roles would reverse and the adult child would become the caretaker of the ill parent" (Alexie). ...

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Sherman Alexie, Americo Paredes, and Toni Morrison each use some form of racial loathing or self-hate in presenting how their particular ethnic group deals with the Americanization process. ... In Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues a group of Native-Americans form a band and attempt to integrate themselves into mainstream American society. ... Alexie presents a delicate balance is his novel. ... Alexie uses the desire to leave the reservation as a symbol of leaving their tradition and culture. ... This idea of Alexie's held steady to the end of the novel. ...

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In the book Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie the issue of hunger is so prominent it is impossible to ignore. ... Alexie writes of the Trading Post, " Its shelves were stocked with reservation staples: Diet Pepsi, Spam, Wonder bread- (12). ... Alexie writes, " Thomas was hungry on a reservation where there ninety-seven different ways to say fry bread." (47). ... Alexie writes of Thomas's stories, "Thomas Builds-the-Fire's stories climbed into your clothes likes sand ... Alexie writes of Victor, " Thomas was not surprised by Victor's sudden violence. ...

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a novel was written by the narrator Sherman Alexie, which was talking about his life in the reservation and his transfer from his reservation high school in Wellpinit to the well-off white high school in Reardan that was 22 miles away from his reservation. ... In conclusion, by mentioning some good characteristics as helping, protecting people, giving a sincerity advice, tolerance, and forgive-ness, we could see that Alexie had portrayed grandmother spirit and Mr. ...

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The theme i have chosen is evident the text "The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian", written by Sherman Alexie, the short story "The Whale", by Witi Ihimaera. ... The book "The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian" written by Sherman Alexie, puts the reader in the life of Arnold Spirit. ... Sherman Alexie wants us to understand that it is important that we find a society or culture where we are excepted for who we are so we do not feel desolate in the world. ... Witi Ihimaera wants the reader to be more like Arnold Spirit from Sherman Alexie'...

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Two of the more prominent Native American authors in the last twenty years are Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie. ... However Erdrich and Alexie's depiction of characters is suggestive of the prevailing diversity about the Native American people and their culture. ... Alexie was born on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington. ... Some of Alexie's works include The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993), Indian Killer (1996), and The Toughest Indian in the World (2000). Alexie's story This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix Arizona provided the basis for the film Smo...

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In Sherman Alexie's memoir "Indian Education", he gives us a look at what it was like growing up on an Indian reservation and going through grade school as a Native American. Alexie's story talks about the small, shapeless HUD houses they lived in, meals of "the canned beef that even the dogs wouldn't eat" (Alexie 6) and paints a sad picture of a bleak life ridden with poverty and alcoholism on an Indian reservation. ...

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The Struggle for Self-Identity in "Indian Education" Sherman Alexie, in "Indian Education", writes about his youth while attending school on an Indian Reservation, and later, in the white public school system. ... (Alexie, 485). ... (Alexie, 483). ... (Alexie,486). ... In the writing of "Indian Education", Sherman Alexie exhibits his battle with self-identity throughout his primary and secondary school years, along with his contempt for Native Americans and whites alike. ...

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The Struggle for Self-Identity in "Indian Education" Sherman Alexie, in "Indian Education", writes about his youth while attending school on an Indian Reservation, and later, in the white public school system. ... (Alexie, 485). ... (Alexie, 483). ... (Alexie,486). ... In the writing of "Indian Education", Sherman Alexie exhibits his battle with self-identity throughout his primary and secondary school years, along with his contempt for Native Americans and whites alike. ...

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Some of the cultural barriers and difficulties are represented in the story "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" by Sherman Alexie. Alexie's story describes a young Native American male whose ethnic identity became a center of his life. ...

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In the work called The Farm by Sherman Alexie, there is one of the main characters named Agnes, and throughout this work, you can see Agnes try to find the good in the situation but is overcome in the end by the bad around her. ... (Alexie 4) Agnes the waitress is first mentioned by Jonah, as he speaks about how every Indian remembers where they were when the cure for cancer was announced. ... " (Alexie 7) which points out that everyone is failing, everyone is falling into this numbness through this fight for using the Indians for their bone marrow. ... " (Alexie 7) This quote from...

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