... a personal perspective, one really has no way of knowing whether the story is being presented impartially at all. However, memoirs are still greatly beneficial literary works despite this fact. 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 ...

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