— Elizabeth Nguyen Throughout the semester, the story, “The Toughest Indian in the World” written by Sherman Alexie made me feel uncomfortable intellectually and emotionally because of the sex scene of the narrator and a hitchhiker in the hotel room towards the end of the story. The narrator follows in his father’s footsteps to only […]
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Throughout the course, in the story “Sonny Blues” …
— Elizabeth Nguyen Throughout the course, in the story “Sonny Blues” by James Baldwin was a short story that expressed the dominant themes and images from Baldwin’s life. The story demonstrates Baldwin’s ability to transform his social and political concerns into modern art. The story talks mainly about deterioration, religion, drug addiction, and World War […]
One of the pieces I didn’t really understand …
— Anonymous One of the pieces I didn’t really understand when I first read it was, “The Toughest Indian in the World” by Sherman Alexie. When I read it the first time, it didn’t really make sense to me. An Indian leaving his village going to live in the modern world ends up having sex […]
James Baldwin’s two approaches to hatred…
—Mazidul Ahmed James Baldwin’s two approaches to hatred he discusses can be associated with a broader view of the world’s injustices. All things that provoke anger within us lead up to these two approaches: acceptance or confrontation. In Baldwin’s situation, he had to face these very two paths, but he realized that taking either path […]
When I read “Toughest Indian in the World”…
—Anonymous When I read “Toughest Indian in the World”, the describe on the culture identities makes me feel very uncomfortable. In this article, the narrator picks up an Indian hitchhiker who makes a living fighting other Indians on reservations in illegal, bare-knuckle matches. To the narrator, he represents a modern-day warrior, a savior who can […]
