Most recent public comments by Elizabeth Stych https://nowcomment.com/users/43546 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077143 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077143 Why does Alexie write this paper as if everything is related to failure and hiding.... He writes that the Indians cannot truly be themselves and they are held back by the non-Indian race. But my question is, are the Indians the ones holding them selves back by not stepping out and using what's held against them so that they can fight to learn and prove how smart and equal they really are? Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:55:39 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077094 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077094 The description of the Indian as SMART, is the biggest point in this paragraph. To be smart is to have power over others. Something non-Indians didn't want Indians to have. Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:55:50 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077080 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077080 Alexie is making the audeience feel as if their is a lump in their stomach for mistreating a race of people. He is telling us his personal perspective. How he has been feared and called dumb and taught not to speak for he is an indian and he is wrong.He has had the door slammed in his face away from the opportunities that were equally his own. It is a very powerful text and he goes beneath the surface when he uses they to show what they were expected to do or to be, but when he uses we it shows who they don't get to be and who they really are. Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:45:09 -0400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077051 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077051 These three words are all being used to describe the Native Americans. As if they are some caged animal who should be feared because they are "so scary" and this gives them the right to not be wanted to learn. This also confuses me because how could you begin to describe a person in such a way. Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:38:45 -0400