Response to Indian education

Old work sharing again~

This short reading by Sherman Alexie includes the scenes about his childhood from first grade to twelfth grade. Each piece of the stories is really short, which gives readers blanks to fill in our personal response. The way he wrote doesn't have too much discuss by himself, but in a inconspicuous way to tell the truth and also get the same feeling in readers.

            Since I just started to read, the heavy powerlessness and hopelessness are all the way around the whole article until the last transition which Junior Polatkin transfer to the nearby junior high to get higher education. That's point of bright thing in the paper, and also gives me a little hope for Junior's future, which he knew about looking forward to schooling but not parties or farming.

            As an Indian child who needed to study or even live in white people's world in that time is really a hard thing to do. By the time "white supremacy" as the highest slogan, the little Junior suffered a lot from the racial discrimination and white boys' ignorant and egotism. When I was reading, I tried to think about if I were Junior, what would I do or interact with those people who was keep trying to tease me every day. The answer is very deep despair. As a little child, the thing he can do is nothing. The only way to protect himself is wait until the time he can out of the Reservation school. Glad to have Randy when he was in sixth grade, which is also the boy was Junior's soon-to-be first and best friend to tell him how to fight with white boys.

            The sentences in the reading are all substantial, which sparkle my interests about the Native American's life. I enjoyed Sherman's work very much.