reflective self-analysis essay

SUPERMAN AND ME

The article "Superman and Me” is a strong short tale of motivation. The purpose of his essay is to highlight his challenging and stressful journey and the aspirations of the Indians to further explain the Indian way of life's long-standing discrimination in a non-Indian environment. The writer discusses the meaning of reading and what reading contributed to his life. Alexie expanded in the whole essay about how reading would improve Indians' lives and save their lives. He starts by first bringing us his life story and insights to convey this letter. The anecdote driven to him by his father is often demonstrated to his audience by Alexie. Finally, by providing a summary of the learning perspective, he speaks to his audience's feelings and how the quality and art of reading influenced him to be the individual he is at present. Alexie claims that if a person can teach how to read to themselves, they can also teach other individuals to save their lives. He appeals to his viewers through his tale that books, and knowing how to read them will survive. The author started the essay by discovering and reading the tale of his life. The exposure to literacy emanates from the comics of Superman. Reading is one of the best weapons for Indians residing in the non-Indian world. This is because reading allows Indians to support themselves by eradicating ethnic inequality amongst them in the non-Indian community, thereby resulting in the Indian people's progress in the non-Indian environment. (Alexie, p.3).

In many instances in the novel, during his youth as an Indian student, Alexie juxtaposes his personal experiences with a great deal of zeal and quest for knowledge to society's aspirations that suggested how often her fellow Indian students were oblivious of their education. The author addresses the significance of reading and what reading added to his life. In the entire essay, Alexie elaborated on how reading can lead to his life. The author describes the importance of reading and what reading meant to his life. In the whole article, Alexie elaborated on how reading can enhance the lives of readers and preserve their lives as well. To express this letter, he begins by first giving us his life story and observations. Alexie falls in love with reading as he followed his father’s devotion. Finally, by offering a description of the learning perspective, he speaks to his audience's emotions about how he was inspired by the quality and art of reading to be the person he is at present. Alexie believes that if a person can educate themselves on how to learn, they can also teach other people how to save their lives. In his own story, he appeals to his audiences that books and learning how to read them will still endure. By exploring and reading the tale of his life, the author began the essay. Exposure to reading derives from the Superman comics. For people living in the non-Indian world who are Indians, reading is one of the strongest arms. This is because reading enables Indians to sustain themselves in the non-Indian society by eradicating racial inequality within them, thereby resulting in the prosperity of the Indian people in the non-Indian world. In his own story, he appeals to his audiences that books and learning how to read them will still endure. 

Exposure to reading derives from the Superman comics. For people living in the non-Indian world who are Indians, reading is one of the strongest arms. This is because reading enables Indians to sustain themselves in the non-Indian society by eradicating racial inequality within them, thereby resulting in the prosperity of the Indian people in the non-Indian world. By mentioning that his reading habit spared his life, he separates himself from his fellow Indian classmates. He successfully became an excellent writer since he was obsessed with reading. He compares his personal life experiences by considering what other people thought about him while growing up to his expectations. He states that he was an "Indian kid who was supposed to be dumb." "By a flashback of how he was reading "anything that words and paragraph" he strongly argued against this mentality and false stereotype, and through this, he developed this passion that he was actually "refusing to fail, (Alexie, p.2).

 In the type of writing as seen by Alexis, it is accessible to his audience to continue to utilize the attraction of ethos in any way. Alexie used the saying about "how he was dedicated to preserving his life concerning his reading society in many ways." Thus, the repetition that was made by Alexie was used to emphasize how much the reading community significantly influenced his life and reinforced his philosophy. (Alexie, p.3).

Repetition is used most often throughout the seventh paragraph when each statement starts with "I read..." There is also the usage of anaphora that is very significant. It is an ability to outline the good impact he has on reading, prioritizing it, and what has helped it succeed. Alexie sees that reading is fun and has shown him the meaning of living from the unfulfilling life he nearly got through. (Alexie, p.5).

By elaborating on his experience, Alexie taps into his audience's feelings and evokes the sympathy of the audience using pathos. He refers to himself as this little Indian boy who, at an early stage, teaches himself like this and advances quickly." It demonstrates to his audience his degree of determination and commitment to preserving his life. He often portrays in a dramatic manner the unfortunate life of suffering in which they stayed. Alexie defines his life as "poor by most standards." He establishes an intimate bond with his readers, shares a vulnerable tone that can not only appeal to but also sympathize with, people who read his article. He demonstrates to his readers how the culture of reading was key to saving his life by saying that he was a little Indian boy who was expected to be stupid." Alexie was eager to rescue both his life and his family from the sad, mediocre lifestyle the society wanted them to pursue by educating themselves. (Alexie, p.3).  

 He summarizes the Indian kids on the reservation to again catch his viewers' feelings. He explains the Indian children in school to his audience who had a chance to learn but did not just because of what they were supposed to be. "As Indian children were expected to fail in the non-Indian world, those who failed were ceremoniously accepted by other Indians and pitied by non-Indians. (p., 4). This shows sympathy not only with how the Indian parents have failed to educate their children but also with their members' suffering by society. This is why Alexie introduces us to his concept of "saving his life" (Alexie, p.4).

The author explains in the novel that Alexie needs viewers to consider the book's key focus, which is knowing and pressuring the viewer to understand the perspective. Alexie gives out his tale mostly in the same novel to let us get a story of growing up as an Indian. He was able to read the book at a young age to see that he gets the key points in the book about how he can be a writer and learn some of the insight to support the young Native Americans (Alexie, p.3).

Alexie says that an Indian is one of the brightest people and more so a dangerous guy who is hated by the other Indians and other people in the world. He further describes the other people mocked him for his stubbornness in his class, but he was interested, and he was never frustrated. He pressed more and more, so he has to get the main points to enable him to be a writer of intent. For example, the narrator attempts to let readers recognize that he not only wished to write the novel but also to make Indians aware that Alexie was attempting to write more about himself than a poor Indian boy who lives on a reservation. In the same story, though, he takes the photo he used to read to ensure that he saved his life and needs people to read it so that they can still save their lives. (Alexie, p.4).

The author, Alexie, offers a pick-up line in the comic book on Superman's trying to smash doors. In this situation, the author offered a real tale of his own about how he attempted to break down other students' doors when he talked to them. For example, writing this comic book aims to make people more conscious of how they can cope with low standards and to ensure that through reading and learning strong, substantial information, how culture can go forward. (Alexie, p.3).

The speaker ends the essay by asking his listeners about the teacher's interactions at the time. He travels and lectures on reservations and seeks to meet, more so to read, the students who are uninterested in their education. He gives us his study of trying to save his life, modified to save our lives concerning the Indians in the reservations everywhere to candle his article. The usage of anaphora and continuity and pathos and ethos appeals will be of interest to broad base crowds and assist them. Alexie is inclusive in the straightforward writing style, which is critical, especially for people with bad reading patterns and difficulties that the essay is attempting to target. The author disclosed to his audience that he did not want his world to deter him from fulfilling his main goal through its community or some sort of stereotyping. He was eager to, by all way, enrich his future. His key idea was to illustrate that, considering their tradition, an Indian may as well excel in existence. This refers not only to Indians but also to someone from different ethnic backgrounds who can excel in this life, using his case as a prime example.

To sum up, ‘Superman and Me’ is an inspiring essay for not only the Indians people but also other communities who are living in a different cultural environment than that of them. Alexie, through his personal experience, clarifies that reading is one of the greatest powers one can achieve to eradicate discrimination, save lives, and hence to make difference in society.

 

 

WORK CITED

Alexie, Sherman, “Superman and Me: The Joy of Reading and Writing.” Los Angeles

Times, 19 April 1998.