Comments by Burghardt Morgan Most recent public comments by Burghardt Morgan https://nowcomment.com/users/43528 Indians being smart https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077145 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077145 If they knew they were smart, why didn't they show that to the non-Indians? They weren't talking how they usually did, they'd talk how they thought the non-Indians wanted them to Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:55:50 -0400 Being poor https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077116 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077116 Maybe the other people in the reservation are metaphorically poor because they can't read Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:55:35 -0400 In all my years in the reservation school system, i was never taught how to write poetry, short stories, or novels. https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077105 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077105 He's blaming the school system for his people believing that the non-Indians were better and that they had to lower their abilities for them. That's not the reservations doing, that's their own. Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:50:37 -0400 Alexie is trying to enforce the importance of reading novels, short stories, and poems in this paragraph. https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077072 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077072 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:43:48 -0400 It ends with sentences that start with I am ___. Is he reassuring himself of these statements or is he inflating his ego? https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077068 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077068 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:42:19 -0400 Why are there so many questions about the teachers? Why is their identity so important to Alexie? https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077060 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077060 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:40:20 -0400 longest sentence which might suggest their long journey to break out of their fear of being different https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077044 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077044 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:36:35 -0400