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Superman And Me Rhetorical Analysis

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Superman and Me - A Rhetorical Precis In “Superman and Me” (1998), an essay written for the Los Angeles Times, Sherman Alexie Jr. explains how the stereotype that Indian children are less intelligent than other children is not only incorrect, but harmful. Alexie provides examples of his own intelligence, having read “Grapes of Wrath in kindergarten” (5); and exhibits his personal experiences with the intelligence of other Indians (they “could tell complicated stories and jokes at the dinner table”) in contrast to how they acted around those who were not Indian (“They were monosyllabic”) demonstrating how Indians are “expected to fail” in a “non-Indian” society (6). Alexie draws contrasts between the stereotype and the truth in order to clearly
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