Sherman Alexie was an indian boy who learned to read from the comic book superman. Sherman read and read till he couldn’t see, he was devoted to learning to read and was highly devoted and inspired by his father. He wanted to break past poverty and wanted to be successful in life. Superman was a metaphor for shermans life he wanted to break past the culture barrier and succeed in a non indian world .
Sherman compared his family to a paragraph and really explained that the barriers were sentences. He compared writing into real life situations. He faced a huge problem with being judged by indians and non-indians, if he was successful he would be judged by fellow indians because he had things they didn’t have. But if he failed in a non-indian world he would be judged by them but accepted by fellow indians. So he wanted to be successful for himself and not listen to others comments and was very successful in his life.
Writing for the hood 