What is Alexie’s purpose as a writer?
- To expose racism in order to show how society works
- Explain the hardships of Native Americans & reservation life
- Show permanent and personal differences within society
- How situations change individuals
- How society impacts others.
- How people “hide” themselves and create “fake identities”
- Express how Indians are perceived by others
- To teach acceptance (of yourself, of community, of others, of culture)
- To develop teen literature (development stories-- coming of age, bildungsroman)
- To teach the world about the REAL culture of Native Americans’ in order to beat the stereotype
- The “humanity” of Native Americans: we understand the personality and depth of characters through his use of Point of View (POV)
- To express Native American feelings
- To depict the mistreatment of Native Americans--uses literary techniques to convey this figuratively
- To write about ALL minorities and their experience with things like racism and discrimination
- universal situations in a minority’s perspective
Welcome to my new class blog. In a short period of time, this blog will become a meaningful online supplement to our class with links to articles, reviews, interviews and video clips that are relevant to the texts we're reading. My posts will attempt to highlight the best points of discussion from class. I will also review key lessons by providing visual aids and links to handouts and presentations from class.
