Above are pictures of the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington state. (Sherman Alexie is part Spokane and part Couer d'Alene.)
Good evening :)
While I am still online, I'd like to send a few questions in case you need an entry or two for your journal. Writing a journal entry is a good way to study for the midterm. However, you may also post the draft of your paper for Friday as your entry.
You may recognize some of these questions from our class discussion.
-- what is Sherman Alexie trying to tell us about being Native American?
-- what do we learn about Victor, Thomas, and Junior from each of Alexie's stories?
-- what do we learn about the reservation from these stories?
-- discuss Alexie's use of first person.
-- discuss his use of third person
-- discuss his use of flashbacks and/or chronology
-- how do the parts of his stories fit together?
-- what is Alexie trying to tell us about being human?
-- why read stories about people who are disadvantaged?
I'm looking forward to seeing what you have to say!
Dr. Szlyk
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