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Sherman Alexie's Use Of Rhetorical Devices In Superman And Me

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Reading "Superman and Me" gave me conflicting feelings. Of course, the tale of a young boy striving to succeed in and environment where he is nearly required to fail is thrilling, yet it really makes you think of the environment itself. He was a young Indian child living on a reservation; however, he recognized that he was an intelligent person. Others around him tried to quiet him because Indian children were supposed to be dumb. Sherman Alexie wanted more out of life.Sherman Alexie used many different rhetorical devices throughout his story. The number one device that caught my attention was repetition. Throughout the whole story he used repetition, but the major one I discovered was in paragraph three. He used "the purpose of a paragraph"
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