The Use of Extended Metaphor and Repetition in “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” Andy Ngunjiri College

In his book, “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” Sherman Alexie gives readers a different look of reading and writing as well as the value of education. While different individuals give different inspiring and meaningful stories about their learning experience, the unique interpretation, sacrifices, distinctions, endless possibilities and complications have an effective optimism for different people. Alexie provides his experience as a young Indian boy who grew up on the Spokane Reservation in Wellpinit Washington and how reading and writing provided a basis for success in his life (Alexie, 2014). The main aim of Alexie is to discuss how he first learned how to read and write as a young boy before engaging in reaching creative writing among Indian children in his life as an adult. By using his love of reading, Alexie was able to propel himself from the stereotypes surrounding his people especially dumbness, quietness, poverty, and failure in life.

In The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me the author, Sherman Alexie uses repetition and extended metaphor with a confident tone to emphasize the meaning of reading and writing in his life as well as to strengthen his description of his reading talent. Alexie...