After reading “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie, I found myself enjoying it. The main reason as to why I experienced this enjoyment came from how the entire text gave the reader insight into the perspective of Sherman Alexie. This perspective of Sherman’s appeared to be how they viewed the world in the form of paragraphs which was stated as “I began to think of everything in terms of paragraphs.” That quote was immediately followed up by examples given by Sherman which I found to be applicable since the concept of paragraphs could be apply to locations, households, and even individual people. With this perspective being introduced in the text, I began to think about how other things could be turned into paragraphs such as objects to buildings.
While Sherman did make the text interesting by bringing up their views on the world, the title of the entire text became somewhat dull to me or at least the “Superman” part of it. What I meant by the title being dull is that the text doesn't exactly focus on how Sherman Alexie learned to read through reading Superman comics. As stated in the text, “I learned to read with a Superman comic book.” I understand that the main purpose of the overall text was to talk about other things relating to “Reading and Writing” but I feel like Sherman could've gone further into his childhood story but he seemingly dismisses it immediately after mentioning it. That feeling came from this sentence, “This might be an interesting story all by itself.” It might not seem like much but I get the feeling that Sherman didn't want to talk about it any more than he did from this sentence.
Anyway that’s about everything I have to say about this text, I enjoy the ideas that were brought up by Sherman Alexie but I do have some gripes with how he did some things.
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