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When someone reads “The Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie and “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglas someone could to be thinking about how each of these writings are considered similar stories just being written in different two different centuries. Both stories show the authors wanting to learn to read so that they can improve their way of life. In both stories each author has to go through challenges that prevent them from achieving their goal of learning how to read in factual events. Alexie and Douglas stories show the positive and negative circumstances of learning how to read and getting an education under their situation in time. Describing their realistic details on their difficulties of how to they learned to read and write while attracting an audience, showing a purpose, and the use of pathos the two different authors are using to write their experiences.
During the time The Joy of Reading and Writing and Writing Superman and Me was written by Sherman Alexie remembers “I was a 3 years old, Spokane Indian boy living with his family on the Spokane Reservation in Eastern Washington state. We were poor by most standards, but one of my parents managed to find some minimum-wage job or another, which made us middle-class by reservation standards” (Cohen15). The audience Sherman Alexie is writing to is the Native American people and young men living on reservations showing them that anything is possible if become educated “A smart Indian is a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians alike” (Cohen 17). Children on reservations growing up were not acknowledged for their intelligence they were stereotyped not to succeed. Sherman Alexie learned how to read and grew up being considered by others who are not Native American to be an intelligent Indian. When trying to pass knowledge along to other Indians Alexie realizes that he could become considered egotistical with the knowledge...

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