Terry Pruyne's Classes
  • Daily Agenda
  • Introduction
    • 10R: INTRODUCTION
  • The Personal Project
    • Checklist for Personal Project
    • Personal Project information Packet
    • Global Contexts >
      • Examples for the Global Context Question
    • Annotated Bibliography: Personal Project >
      • Example of an Annotated Bibliogrpahy
    • The Presentation: Personal Project
  • What is Civil Disobedience?
    • Pathos, Ethos, and Logos >
      • Pathos, Ethos, and Logos in Leter from Birmingham Jail
    • MLK: Letter from Birmingham Jail >
      • Question for "Letter From Birmingham Jail"
    • Literary Elements in "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
    • Thoreau: Where I Live and What I Live For
  • Short Story Unit
    • Science Fiction >
      • Harrison Bergeron >
        • Harrison Bergeron analysis
      • A Sound of Thunder >
        • "Sound of Thunder" analysis
      • All Summer in a Day
    • Short Story Unit: Part II >
      • Lather Research
      • Sniper: Research
      • Sniper Research Paper
    • Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie
  • This I Believe
    • This I Believe: Writing Your Personal Belief
    • This I Believe: Guidelines to Write
    • This I Believe: Philosophy of Life in Songs
    • Thoreau: Where I Live and What I Live For
  • Antigone
    • Antigone: Intro Questions
    • Letter to an Administrator >
      • Letter to an Administrator: sample letter
  • Maus
    • Maus: Chapter 1 Questions
    • Maus: Chapter 2 Questions
    • Maus: Chapter 3 Questions
    • Maus: Chapter 4 Questions
    • Maus: Chapter 5 Questions
    • Maus: Chapter 6 Questions
    • Maus: Understanding Graphic Novels >
      • Maus: Seven Types of Comic Panels
      • Maus: six Types of Transitions
      • Maus: What is Inference
      • Maus: Videos
      • Comic Book Drawings
    • Maus Project >
      • graphic novel project: Spongebob
      • graphic novel project: A Blade in the Night
      • graphic novel project: example
      • Grading the Maus Project
  • Of Mice and Men
    • Of Mice and Men: Introduction
    • Of Mice and Men >
      • Of Mice & Men: The American Dream
      • Themes in Of Mice and Men >
        • Social Consciousness
        • Lonliness in Of Mice and Men
        • The American Dream
      • Literary Elements in Of Mice and Men
      • Chapter Questions
      • Texas Uses Lenny for Execution Role Model
      • Of Mice and Men: You are a Lawyer
      • Documents: Of Mice and Men
      • courtroom
      • Evidence to Convict George
      • Evidence to Defend George
  • MLA Page Set up and Other Important Info and Links
    • Concession and Refutation
  • Poetry
    • Poetry Terms
    • Poetry: The Wind
    • Poetry: Ex-Basketball Player
    • Poetry: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
    • Poetry: The Whipping >
      • Point of View
      • The Whipping Resources
    • Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening >
      • Frost
    • All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
  • Into the Wild
    • Into the Wild: Why a Road Trip
    • Henry David Thoreau >
      • Thoreau Into the Wild Assignment
      • Thoreau in Into the Wild
      • Commencement Speech at Mount Holyoke College
    • Questions: Into the Wild (Chapters 1-6) >
      • Happiness
      • Aftermath of Into the Wild
  • MLA STYLE EXAMPLE PAPER
  • Help for Passing the Common Core Exam
    • Help for Part I of the New York State Common Core Exam
    • Help for Part II of the New York State Common Core Exam >
      • First Organizer for Part II
      • Second Organizer for Part II
      • Concession and Refutation
    • Help for Part III of the New York State Common Core Exam
    • Literary Terms: Short Definitions for the Commonly Used on New York State Exams
    • Mr. Ruth's Study Guide
  • RHETORIC & EVIDENCE-BASED CLAIMS
    • Political Cartoons
  • Additional Readings
    • Serving in Florida by Barbara Ehreneich
  • Literary Devices Through the Rolling Stones
  • Creating a Brochure
  • 10H: INTRODUCTION
  • Literary Elements
    • Literary Terms: Characterization
    • Literary Terms: Allusion
    • Literary Terms: Theme
    • Literary Elements: Imagery
    • Literary Terms: Conflict
    • Literary Terms: Irony
  • Documenting Sources (Works Cited)

Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie

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Questions

5. In what ways does the description of Sherman Alexie's father play against the stereotype?

6. What is the effect of Alexie's analogy of paragraph to a fence (para.3)?

7. What does Alexie mean when describes "an Indian boy" who "grows into a man often speaks of his childhood in the third person?

8. In paragraph 7, Alexie deliberately uses a number of short, simple sentences. What effect is he trying to achieve?
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