In his book, "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me," Sherman Alexie explains how he taught himself to read by perusing through a Superman comic book at the age of 3. He looked at the illustrations and imagined what words ... intelligent around non-Indians. He always spoke out in class and asked questions, he was not afraid to stand out, because he knew it was not necessarily a bad thing. Alexie describes a smart Indian viewed as "a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians alike" (29). Despite this, he refused to fail, he ... pediatrician. Despite a...

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... achieve their goals. Two people who had to work hard to overcome their difficulties were Amy Tan, the author of "Mother Tongue"" and Sherman Alexie, author of "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me". Tan and Alexie both had to overcome obstacles to achieve their goals of getting education. One of the obstacles they both had to overcome was their teachers ... science; this made Tan work hard and challenged herself to become a writer and prove that Asians are also good at writing. Just like Tan, Sherman Alexie had to face a similar experience, but as an Indian wanting to refuse ...

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... became sentences. Then the sentences became stories just like the stories that are written about each celebrity in the National Enquirer. After that I started seeing everything in stories just like Sherman Alexie; author of The Joy of Reading and writing: Superman and Me. Who saw everything in paragraphs after he read a superman comic book including his life and his family. My family ... ...

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