1. Sherman’s goal was to get off the reservation. He could have been like his father and just gone with what was expected of him but he chose to aspire more. In order for him to reach his goal he needed to be literate so that he could get a job and earn money. This is something that is also essential for me. In order for me to become a psychologist I need to be able to be literate. I want to be successful at my job and in order to do that I need to be able to read, write, and comprehend. You need these things for any job that you may be going into.
2. My culture doesn’t really show through my literacy. My parents always spoke proper English so that was all I knew. I only notice how I talk when I go to other people’s houses and I hear them say “aint” or “I seen”. This became a pet peeve of mine because my parents always corrected me when I was younger for saying things like that.
3. I really connected with “Two Questions” by Linda Barry. The poetry I wrote always made me feel good and I never thought about whether it was good poetry or not. When we started doing poetry in school it became less enjoyable. I knew that I would have to share my poems so I constantly was second guessing myself on my work. I would ask myself the same questions that Linda would ask herself. I was so focused on what everyone would think of my poems that I didn’t let my true poetry show.
4. A circular narrative is when the story says something and then repeats it later in the story as if looping the story together. The sentence may make more sense to the reader in the end or have a different meaning. It makes you think more about the purpose of the sentence. In the story “Superman and Me” the writer states “I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky” and in the end of the book he says “I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky”. This ties the story together.
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