Ethos And Pathos In Sherman Alexie's Superman And Me

The Spokane Indians held these "rules" in such high regard that when Junior actually followed these rules and struck his bully in the face, the bully just stood in awe. In Junior 's society the logical thing to do would be to attack when you are highly insulted. But on the contrary, this new society did not follow his rules, nor did they have any of their own. By giving us, the readers, this list the author has strengthened his logos factor in this particular story.

Directions: The BIG TIDE has been marked for you. Highlight the small tide in each paragraph using the following color code: topic sentence, important evidence, detailed explanation, ending/concluding sentence. Prompt: In Sherman Alexie’s essay “Superman and Me,” Alexie uses an extended metaphor to explain the connection between himself and the fictional character Superman.

Writers use pathos, ethos, and logos in their writing to appeal to their audience. Pathos is an appeal to emotions, ethos is an appeal to trust, and logos is an appeal to reasoning or logic. Frederick Douglass's, " What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" is about his views and the views of many slaves towards the Fourth of July. He uses ethos, pathos, and logos effectively to convey his central message.

First let’s talk about how Sherman Alexie uses pathos to appeal to the reader’s emotions. In his writing when he is using this technique he says, “I read anything that had words and paragraphs. I read with equal parts joy and desperation. I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life.” (Alexie). This quote is successful because his word choice is helping to make the reader feel emotionally attached to the reasoning behind why he is doing what he is doing. Also, he says towards the end of his writing, “I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky.” (Alexie) He does a good job with his word choice in these short sentences. It makes the reader engaged in the writing because he is being assertive, and he knows what he wants. Which what he wants is the reader to understand his point that something needed to be done and he was going to be the one to do it. Both of these quotes that I have pulled from his text reaches the readers on an emotional level because he makes it seem that knowing how to read saved his life and now that he knows how to read and

ii. Topic Sentence – Pathos is referred to as the literature’s emotional appeal to the audience’s senses or imagination.

One reading that stood out to me was the Superman & Me written by Sherman Alexie. After reading these few pages alone I learned a very important lesson, which is be yourself, better yourself, and stay true to yourself. Alexie doesn’t conform himself so he can fit in with the other classmates who don’t want to learn or even attempt to read in class. Even when it was known that “A smart Indian is a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians alike,” that didn’t stop him from voraciously reading every book he could get his hands on and answering questions when no one else would. It sort of reminds me of how my highschool works, similarly to how the kids in Alexie's class disliked how intelligent he became the kids

Adjusting to another culture is a difficult concept, especially for children in their school classrooms. In Sherman Alexie’s, “Indian Education,” he discusses the different stages of a Native Americans childhood compared to his white counterparts. He is describing the schooling of a child, Victor, in an American Indian reservation, grade by grade. He uses a few different examples of satire and irony, in which could be viewed in completely different ways, expressing different feelings to the reader. Racism and bullying are both present throughout this essay between Indians and Americans. The Indian Americans have the stereotype of being unsuccessful and always being those that are left behind. Through Alexie’s negativity and humor in his

The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me, written by Sherman Alexie, tells a story of an Indian boy. Alexie, the Indian boy, has a pair of parents who loves him very much. Although the main stream of the society recognizes the Indians as stupid a clumsy ones, Alexie still proved to his classmates and teachers that Indians can behave smart and clever. In the essay, Alexie described his experience of reading and writing. Like the blacks, Indians own a base position, but Alexie’s parents and Alexie did not give up. Although no rich, his parents still bought as much as they can for Alexie, and Alexie treasures every chance he has and stood out from his colleague. How Alexie’s parents paid out all their efforts to cultivate Alexie touched

Have you ever felt like you can’t be yourself because you don’t want to be different? Have you ever wanted to prove someone wrong about something they thought about you? In Sherman Alexie’s The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me he was stereotyped to be just any old Indian American that wont be anything in life but it turned out that he did what he wanted to and became a successful poet and writer.

Purpose: Alexie highlights how he ultimately overcame the hardships suffered during his early years due to his Indian ethnicity and displays how Native Americans were, and continue, to suffer from discrimination.

Nicholas Carr addresses and adapts to his audience by effectively using pathos, a rhetorical appeal. The author captures his audience by appealing to their emotions. For example, Carr explains on page five,

Before one ever starts attending school, their very first lesson is to become literate in the language they speak. From reading sentences to reading paragraphs to reading novels, we try to achieve literacy. However, some of the greatest public speakers and writers did not achieve it through the way most people did. This is shown in the literary works of Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and Sherman Alexie. Like these people, literacy isn’t achieved by simply going to school. It’s achieved through great perseverance and through great tenacity.

In Sherman Alexie’s “Superman and Me,” he uses rhetorical strategies to achieve his purpose of reaching his audience. He uses analogies to depict something confusing with something simple to understand. Syntax gives the readers an idea of Alexie when he was first learning to read. Finally, his emphasis on anaphora allows the audience to see his relentlessness to keep reading. The use of analogy, syntax, and anaphora persuades his audience to agree with Alexie’s purpose of this essay.

Education —an institution for success, opportunity, and progress — is itself steeped in racism. In Sherman Alexie’s short story “Indian Education” from his book The Longer Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is set in two places, the Spokane Indian Reservation and a farm town nearby the reservation. The story is written in a list of formative events chronologize Victor’s youth by depicting the most potent moment from each year he is in school. Alexie addresses the issue of racism in education by examining examples of injustice and discrimination over twelve years in a boy’s life. Victor faces his initial injustice in first grade when he is bullied by bigger kids, but his understanding of injustice becomes much more complex in grades two through twelve as he experiences discrimination against his American Indian identity. Familial experiences of a Native woman, Alexie’s style and humor, and Victor’s awareness of discrimination from grade one to twelve all reveal the grim reality of growing up and being schooled on an American Indian reservation.

The first way the author does this is when saying “marking books is not an act of mutilation, but of love” (1). This example appeals to the reader’s emotion by provoking vivid words in one’s mind that appeals to the reader’s values and beliefs of first mutilation, and then love. The author was successful at gaining the reader’s attention by provoking a shock sensation when saying love and mutilation, such powerful words in the same sentence. This strengthened his argument as a whole because he made his message personal to the readers leaving a lasting impression on each reader, and not to mention doing so encouraged other readers to see damaged books in a new perspective (1). Another example, of the author using pathos to appeal to the reader’s emotion is when Adler claims marking a book makes the book personal for the reader in the same sense as when a person buys a steak, its technically not really theirs until a person eats and digests it. This figurative language was successful at evoking vivid images causing the readers senses to kick in order to picture what the reader is describing. This example strengthened his argument as a whole by making his example relatable to every reader (1).The third example is when the author says there are three types of book owners, and the type that marks up their book is the ideal type to be. Adler’s tone in this