Comments by Scott Swanson Most recent public comments by Scott Swanson https://nowcomment.com/users/43547 Good thought, they can't read so there isn't probably room for advancement within them so they are stuck where they are for a longtime https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077142 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077142 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:55:35 -0400 What are the effects of his neighbors being more poor than he is? He speaks on their behalf so there must be some importance. https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077138 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077138 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:54:23 -0400 What do you think is the purpose of starting the piece off broadly with a generic statement? https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077117 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077117 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:53:16 -0400 He starts the piece with I learned to read. https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077103 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077103 Often times, stories about someone's life starts off with the best thing that happened to them. For Sherman, this would imply that reading was the greatest tool that he acquired which means that the rest of the piece must be about life as a reader and the impact of reading on his life. Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:53:16 -0400 Shows that being poor is nothing easy. https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077085 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077085 He says that he lived on hope and fear instead of just little money and food. This means that they cared about their future. They wanted better instead of living off of the government system and just enough money to get by. Fear and Hope are great adjectives. This would imply that Sherman and his family lived constantly scared about making ends meet yet were driven to keep on trying because of hope that something would change like a full time job or better conditions for themselves and their people. Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:46:23 -0400 He was poor, yet having little money meant he wasn't the poorest in his tribe https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077063 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077063 This shows that his neighbors and community members really struggled to obtain basic necessities. Reservation life is hard and is given nothing with little opportunities for advancement.Having little with a smaller education keeps the kids poor with a mentality that they cannot advance in the future and their reservation will stay the way it is. Sherman was destined to get out of his situation and took opportunities like excessive reading to assure his future was going to be something great. Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:55:35 -0400 The comic book is not the important part, being able to read is. https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077048 https://nowcomment.com/documents/109228?scroll_to=1077048 Learning was a major accomplishment in his life, he was able to be at a higher level than his classmates. The Superman comic is significant because he taught himself to read; this opened a new world for him. Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:50:04 -0400