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Chosen Quote:  “Those romances always featured a love affair between a virginal white schoolteacher or preacher's wife and a half-bread Indian warrior” (Alexie 3).

Speaker: The speaker was the narrator or the boy.

Context/Situation: This was when Mr. P and the boy were talking about the boys sister and how she used to love to write romance novels. His perspective of Indian romance novels were ones like this.

Analysis: This quote shows that in stories Indians always could only fall in love with white people.

Significance/Analysis:  This demonstrates the stereotype that Indians always can only fall in love with white people. This has been shown in many stories such as Pocahontas. This shows how a single story is very powerful and can even affect the group of peoples perspectives.

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Chosen Quote: "I was described as an apple, red on the outside and white on the inside"
Speaker: Sherman Alexie
Context and situation: An interview with Alexie asking questions about his early life on the reservation
Analysis:He was stereotyped with his skin color, but was called by his "white attitude". He liked school and wanted to get a good education.
Analysis/significance:When he was playing sports, he was always picked last and always targeted in football games. They just wanted to target Sherman to get rid of him and because he was different.

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Chosen Quote: “I suppose he is depressed. I suppose my sister is depressed. I suppose my whole family is depressed” (5).

Speaker: Boy

Context: The boy is talking to Mr. P about his sister and her old hobby of writing and reading novels. They also talk about his father’s emotionless state.

Analysis: This quote shows the boy realizing that his family has given up on their interests, hobbies and their emotions as a whole.

Significance: He’s the only one left that really cares about how his life plays out. His family no longer cares about their own future but he still wants to do something with his.

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Chosen Quote:

“I was labeled as an apple red on the outside white on the inside.”(Alexie)

Speaker:

Sherman Alexie

Context/Situation:

He was asked about how his friends and family reacted to his books.

Analysis:

He thinks he was labeled as looking indian but white on the inside/acting white.

Significance/Analysis:

This quote shows how he was labeled as an outcast from the tribe and was trying to act white and get rich, or in a term, a “sell out”. His tribe thought that success was only something for whites and seeing how Alexie was pursuing success they labeled him as white on the inside.

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Quote chosen: We were supposed to kill the Indian to save the child.

Speaker: Mr. P

Content/situation: he was apologizing to the Indian kid.

Analysis: Kill the Indian inside of the kid, kill who they are on the inside. Kill the culture of Indians. They believed if you break the Indian inside they will be left with a "normal" white kid.

Significance/analysis: This shows that the white people discriminated against the Indians and didn't like their traditions and  what they believed in. They did not care how nice the kid was but only cared about the white.

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Chosen Quote:

“We were supposed to make you give up being Indian. Your songs and stories and language and dancing. Everything. We weren't trying to kill Indian people. We were trying to kill Indian culture.” (Alexie 4)

Speaker:

Mr P

Context/Situation:

Mr. P was talking to the boy about how he's sorry because he was taught to teach the kids that they had to “kill the Indian”

Analysis:

They were trying to change the Indians and how they lived.

Significance/Analysis:

It means that back then, that's what the teachers were taught, you were supposed to help the children who were Indian basically not be Indian anymore because if your Indian then you have to follow certain rules. If you had to follow those rules, then you wouldn't have any freedom to do what you want to do in life.

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Quote
"That we where supposed to kill the Indian to save the child." (Alexie 4)

Speaker
Mr.P

Context/situation
Mr. P is talking to the boy about how the teachers where taught to teach the kids on the reservation. Also, he told the boy about that they where trying to make the Indians give up being Indian.

Analysis
This quote means that they are trying to make the Indians give up being Indian. They where doing this to make them act more like white people and to kill the Indian culture.

Significance
This quote is significant because it is about them trying to get rid of the Indian culture. Also, there is part of it about the people on the reservation giving up and not going off to do what they might have wanted to do. This is continuously repeated later in the book. Also, Mr.P gives example of people giving up, like the boy's sister. Then Mr.P goes on to convince the boy to leave the reservation and not to give up on what he wants.

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Chosen Quote:  “I was labeled as an apple; red on the outside, white on the inside” (Alexie)

Speaker: Sherman Alexie

Context/Situation: This quote was said when Alexie was asked about how his friends and family responded when they found out he was leaving the reservation for a better life, saying he was doing it to get rich or be white.

Analysis:  This quote means that Alexie’s family and friends believed that he was trying to be whiter, richer or just anything other than Indian.

Significance/Analysis:  This quote was interesting to me because it shows that people who should always love and support him were angry or disappointed that he had wanted to do something bigger with his life than stay on a reservation. This quote is significant because he didn't listen to them when they said that stuff about him being white and went on to do great things.