Sherman Alexie and my Narrative

"Superman and Me" was both serious and lighthearted at times.The second half of Sherman's essay had a very dark tone dealing with the discrimination and persecution of Native Americans. Fortunately my experience with reading has not been as dreary. The first half of the essay mainly focuses on how Sherman gained his interest in reading and learned how to read.  I like how Alexie incorporates the thoughts that went through his head when he was first learning how to read. The fact that he took the concept of a paragraph and incorporated into a way of grouping his house and family in their community was really funny and showed the creativity of a child's mind. I'm also going to try to incorporate my old thoughts into my narrative because I think it will help the reader connect with my essay since he or she probably had similar thoughts going through their head when beginning to read. I'll do this by mentioning the fact that the first book I tried to read was called "Blue" and the only reason I picked it up off the shelf in my old house was because I liked the color of the cover...it was blue. Although the way I learned how to read wasn't as unique as Sherman's, I feel like the way he used descriptive words to paint a picture of how the comic book panels looked is something I could use.