Critical Analysis Of Sherman Alexie Sherman's 'Superman And Me'

In Superman and Me, Sherman Alexie talked about his life as a child being. The author just a bit talked about the part where he became an adult at the end. He then demonstrated that being a Native American living on the Spokane Indian Reservation can be very challenging. He successfully persuades readers, personally myself, by mentioning some strong evidences, amongst others, his ability to read as a child, his joy of reading, and the ability to see things differently that he acquired through reading ,and finally by speaking about how oppressed and discriminated can a smart Indian who sees things differently be to Indians and non-Indians at school. It is difficult to live on the Indian reservation. He says, “We were poor by most standards, but one of my parents usually managed to find some minimum-wage job or another, which made us middle-class by reservation standards” (1). It is actually a close place where most people live in poverty. Somewhere where workers are irregularly paid, and where people live in fear and hope. Scared to stand up and speak up for their dignity to the government, these ones can

Also how he remarkably learned to read by himself including his spectacular devotion for books and others reading tools. And I then finally talked about how he was oppressed at school by Indians and non-Indians alike because he did want to fail in the non-Indian world. Through that extract of the book “Superman and Me”, Alexi’s purpose is to initiate Indians children to the joy of reading since this one think that it is a very important key for those who want to be different and for those who don’t want to stay down, or be ridiculed but keep the head up and change their life. After all these strong evidences he mentioned, I can agree that the author was successfully