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In five pages this research paper reviews the 1996 novel by Sherman Alexie. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
In six pages this essay compares these two literary works in terms of family impact and protagonist alienation. There are no othe...
son and tried to do the right thing by him, providing him what he regarded as a good upbringing and proper education, but is often...
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel". The harmful American charact...
time" (Alexie 34-36). This is a summation of the conflict of the modern Native, from the eyes of the narrator, today. It speaks of...
of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...
look at each other. The story begins with the walk into a shop, where the shop assistant is weary of the narrator...
In five pages this paper examines the author's uses of imagery in terms of characterization and plot development. There are no ot...
determine the dramatic strengths and weaknesses of one version compared to another. The movie This is a "coming of age" story and...
In five pages this paper discusses the savage social commentary featured in Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie. Five sources are...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Alexie’s “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”. An explication is carried ...
of community and what he can give back to the community, Sherman often can be found in the oddest venues. Sometimes he will turn d...
family depicted in this book after all represents a rather blas? view of America. On closer consideration, however, it becomes ap...
he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...
an infant and was given little chance of survival. And heres what Junior says of himself: "I was born with water on the brain. OK,...
In five pages Alexie's Indian Killer and Momaday's House Made of Dawn are analyzed so as to compare and contrast how alienation le...
This essay offers a comparison between Sherman Alexie's "The Trial of Thomas Builds-The-Fire" and "Turtle Lake" by Gloria Bird. Th...
Americans are in actuality much more oppressed by government regulations and society as a whole than they were in this earlier tim...
Native American literature is interesting both in content and in the fact that it is a relatively recent phenomena. Native Americ...
close, as truly intimate with his wife as he is with this group of friends. Nick does not run away from his responsibility, but th...
plains. Their mobile lifestyle necessitated mobile housing. The tipi was the result. Sometimes misspelled as "teepee", the tipi...
the white race is far superior to all others. Reprogramming such ingrained concepts is not something that will ever be carried th...
The indigenous peoples of the Americas have suffered long and hard since their juxtaposition of their cultures against those of th...
she is thinking or what has occurred. Surrounded by a halo of light, Shermans face is a "shadowed" mask and it is this melodramati...
would marry white people who would beget quarter-bloods, and so on and so on, until simple mathematics killed the Indian in us" (A...
spotted horse grazed on the plain, and there was a dark wildness on the mountains beyond. The land was still and strong. It was ...
He is shot and wakes to find himself in another body, a person in the past. Zits has access to the persons memories and knows the ...
mostly prostitutes - were savagely murdered and mutilated by an unknown assailant, but after November 1888, the slayings stopped a...
of a gruff man, but also one who stands by his officer, Colonel Chamberlain. Through his eyes and voice one comes to see the human...
In ten pages this paper discusses the aberrant behavior of sociopath and serial killer Ted Bundy....