In the text, “Superman and Me,”One main quote that explains everything you need to know about this article is when Sherman Alexie says, “I wasrefused to fail. I was smart. I was lucky.” Many people that have read this choose to believe that this quote is just an irritating repetition of how he felt about himself, however, closer examination shows that it actually develops his main claim and central idea, refines his claims, and shows the purpose of this text all in one quote. Alexie was a young, Indian boy who just wanted to know how to read in write in the aspiration of becoming emotionally closer to his father because he loved him so. He was lucky enough to have the first step taken for him getting the books.
Alexie was plentifully lucky to have his father love books enough to have them bestowed unto him by
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He feels smart because he was able to read and learn despite being bullied for it, and he feels that arrogance for pushing against all the other kids and helping the teacher instead. He was very lucky because he got the advantage to learn to read when he was young, so that already put him ahead of the other kids at his school. Another big reason that Alexie thought that education was a large accomplishment was that Indian kids were expected to be stupid another way he states this is, he says, “ A little Indian boy teaches himself to read at an early age and advances quickly. He reads, “ Grapes of Wrath,” in Kindergarten when other children were struggling with, “Dick and Jane.” If he’d been anything but an Indian boy living on a reservation, he might have been called a prodigy, but he is simply an oddity.” His arrogance came a long way for him because he had to fight everyday to do what he wanted; he shows that by stating,”I fought with my classmates on a daily basis. They wanted me to stay quiet when the non-Indian teacher asked for answers, for volunteers, for