Native American Literature :: Native American Literature

Native American LiteratureSpending this semester reading Native American Literature, really brought me to make comparisons to my past tense start out. I think in each story, there was always something significant that seemed similar to my life. There were stories that had similar connections, and as I read them, I roam my mind to connect what the author was saying and to what I remember from my life and make a connection. Actually, I thought every story was good and tumesce to understand. For the most part, the story that really brought my attention and that made a connected to my life was reading Indian Education by Sherman Alexie. Somehow as I read this story, I understood what the author was saying. The story Indian Education is a story about the author explaining his childhood in school from stigmatize to grade until he graduated. It explains in detail from his first grade till his twelfth grade. It shows how his personality changes as he grows and how things differ in pers pective. Its like what we went with in our childhood. From remembering that bully in first grade till having your first date in eight grade. I really thought of my experience and made a few comparisons. I believe I went through the same things the author did. For instance, in his first grade the author writes how he use to get picked by the other Indian kids, and how they used to take his glasses and tossed them around. I remember once two of my ex friends chasing me and taking my glasses and cease up damaging them. I remember hating my second grade teacher because she would always punish me for talking back to her. She had this ugly face, and i hardly looked at her when she talked to me and that made her mad. As you can realize, being a child, its just fights and games. Not caring about anything, until the consequences come. Sherman Alexie does a good job how his life changed from his childhood, and maturing in his age to come. For example, in his ninth grade, he tells how after a basketball game, he passed out after several drinks in a dance. His friends carried him to the hospital and saved him. I remember getting drunk, in which I wasnt suppose to, but those hard shots of liquor and beer, made me fall to the ground a couple of times.