Home Improvement Sherman Alexie

Home Improvement by Sherman Alexie is a poem about a young boy who was never taught to fix anything. There are multiple times in the poem where it is very repetitive which adds emphasis. For example, the first line says that the boy was never taught to fix anything. He was never taught to fix anything, because his father was never around to teach him. Whenever the young boy’s father was six years old he had a very difficult time maturing and blossoming into a man. His father was killed in War World II on Okinawa Island and left the six year old son to grow up fatherless. Since the six year old son did not have a masculine figure in his life to help him mature and show him the duties of a man he never grasped the full understanding of male responsibilities. This made

He chose to go to these stores, because it made him feel manlier on the inside and was hoping to find someone that could perhaps become a male figure in his life. Then it made him think of his father not having a father to help him and show him how things ought to be done. He repeats the statement twice to show that growing up without a father is very difficult and that triggered a missing part in his heart that never seemed to be fully filled. He says that he went into Home Depot looking for a new fan that should have been replaced fifteen years ago. Since he never grew up with anyone to tell him that the outdoor lamp needed replacing he never knew to replace it. He says that every fifteen years he replaces something in the house. This year he feels that something more than just an outdoor lamp needs to be fixed. The young man is now trying to fill the hole in his heart from never having a father to teach him the masculine responsibilities of life. He then tries to find the absolute loneliest worker inside Home Depot that looked like his father worked him the