This story is written by Sherman Alexie and is a story of hope for the children of different ethnicity. Hope for them to merge in the American society. The author in the story presents himself as a child having a dream to blend in the American society and by sticking to his dream he grew among the children of his same background. Sherman is a Native American Indian and is expected to be slow and “stupid”. The story is interesting. He presents the story linked to his ethos and pathos, showing his character and the emotional turmoil he faced being a child. The author tells that everyone had the same opportunity which he did, but he made great use of it. The opportunity that all children went to the school and all of them could learn, participate and explore. In the beginning the author explained how he understood the concept of the paragraph in his life. This particular incident is his logic (logos), it made sense to him that the whole world is a paragraph containing millions of paragraph and each representing a different object or idea. This paragraph stops the reader and forces him/her to look around and see everything in the perspective of paragraphs. …show more content…
The author constantly tells how his ethos was changed and molded by certain situations. He presents his emotions (pathos) in the lines “My father loved books, and since I loved my father …, I decided to love books” the author is deeply associated with his father and feels that whatever is necessary to achieve his fathers association, he will do it. The author is exaggerating his emotions and basically shows his