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"Books," I say to them. "Books," I say. I throw my weight against their locked doors. The door holds. I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to save our lives.

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"Books," I say to them. "Books," I say. I throw my weight against their locked doors. The door holds. I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to save our lives.

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- Maximos

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Despite all the books I read, I am still surprised I became a writer. I was going to be a pediatrician. These days, I write novels, short stories, and poems.

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Despite all the books I read, I am still surprised I became a writer. I was going to be a pediatrician. These days, I write novels, short stories, and poems.

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- Maximos

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As Indian children, we were expected to fail in the non-Indian world. Those who failed were ceremonially accepted by other Indians and appropriately pitied by non-Indians. I refused to fail.

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"I read with equal parts joy and desperation. I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life. "

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 This might be an interesting story all by itself. A little Indian boy teaches himself to read at an early age and advances quickly. He reads "Grapes of Wrath" in kindergarten when other children are struggling through "🤬 and Jane." If he'd been anything but an Indian boy living on the reservation, he might have been called a prodigy.

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 This might be an interesting story all by itself. A little Indian boy teaches himself to read at an early age and advances quickly. He reads "Grapes of Wrath" in kindergarten when other children are struggling through "🤬 and Jane." If he'd been anything but an Indian boy living on the reservation, he might have been called a prodigy.

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''I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky.''

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He reads "Grapes of Wrath" in kindergarten when other children are struggling through "🤬 and Jane." If he'd been anything but an Indian boy living on the reservation, he might have been called a prodigy. But he is an Indian boy living on the reservation and is simply an oddity

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Despite all the books I read, I am still surprised I became a writer. I was going to
be a pediatrician. These days, I write novels, short stories, and poems. I visit schools
and teach creative writing to Indian kids

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The purpose of this piece is to show readers that no matter where you come from, he can stand up for yourself, and do anything you put your mind to.

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They refuse and resist. "Books," I say to them. "Books," I say. I throw
my weight against their locked doors. The door holds. I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to save our lives.

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"A smart Indian is a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and
non-Indians alike." - This line doesn't seem like much, but it explains that he wasn't afraid to go away from what is counted as "normal" because he wanted to be smart, and he loved reading and no one was going to stop him.

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The purpose is to show that no matter where you come from, what ethnicity you are or how much money you have that you can find something that you love and cherish and you can grow that thing you love by all the things around you.

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"They refuse and resist. "Books," I say to them. "Books," I say. I throw
my weight against their locked doors. The door holds. I am smart. I am arrogant. I am
lucky. I am trying to save our lives. " - It may be the last line, but it is supposed to grab the reader's attention with emotion.

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As Indian children, we were expected to fail in the non-Indian world. Those who failed were
ceremonially accepted by other Indians and appropriately pitied by non-Indians.

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"These days, I write novels, short stories, and poems. I visit schools and teach creative writing to Indian kids. "
This is an example of Ethos because the author is telling us his credentials.

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"If he'd been anything but an Indian boy living on the reservation, he might have been called a prodigy. But he is an Indian boy living on the reservation and is simply an oddity."

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"I fought with my classmates on a daily basis. They wanted me to stay quiet when the non-Indian teacher asked for answers, for volunteers, for help"

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Despite all the books I read, I am still surprised I became a writer. I was going to
be a pediatrician. These days, I write novels, short stories, and poems. I visit schools
and teach creative writing to Indian kids.

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We were poor by most standards, but one of my parents usually managed to find some minimum-wage job or another.

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Brianna G                      The purpose of this piece is to show people that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. The author didn't start out with much but was able to make something out of his life.         

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Brianna G                      The purpose of this piece is to show people that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. The author didn't start out with much but was able to make something out of his life.         

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"I read books at recess, then during
lunch, and in the few minutes left after I had finished my classroom assignments" - He reads a lot

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"These days, I write novels, short stories, and poems. I visit schools
and teach creative writing to Indian kids."

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"I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to save our lives."

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He is telling us about the steps he took to learn how to read at a young age and how learning that made him a lot brighter for his age.

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The purpose of this piece is to simply explain his life story, and why he decided to write. He wanted to save his and other little Indians lives, and he wrote what made him ultimately do such a thing, reading.

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Within the context of this short piece there is one very big main idea that sticks out. That is to never give up on something and keep doing it until you succeed. If you keep working at something you can become the best version of whatever it is.

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Within the context of this short piece there is one very big main idea that sticks out. That is to never give up on something and keep doing it until you succeed. If you keep working at something you can become the best version of whatever it is.

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- Maximos

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The purpose of this piece is to inform others on Sherman Alexie's childhood, and the importance of reading.

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The main purpose of this piece is to break the convention of Indian people being dumb and unable to succeed in a modern world, and how you can become whatever you want to be, regardless of what people consider you to be.

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These days, I wright novels, short stories, and poems. I visit schools and teach creative writing to Indian kids.

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''These days, I write novels, short stories, and poems. I visit schools
and teach creative writing to Indian kids.''

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'' We lived on a combination of
irregular paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus food. "

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"My father loved books, and since I
loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well."
This is an example of Pathos because it tells us a heart warming reason a boy learned to read.

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"We were poor by most standards, but one of my parents managed to find some minimum-wage job or another..." this is very impacting because it is spoken at the beginning of the passage and he talks about how they struggled and didn't have a lot. By the end of this passage he is helping others and doing things for schools that he didn't get. This is inspiring because he started by not having much of anything but he didn't let that get to him so he could influence others some day.

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If you don't start now it will be too late when you finally realize that it will help.

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If you read a couple pages a day you will become smarter which can lead to more opportunities for you in the feature. This will open up your option's in life.

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The purpose of this piece is to influence others on how he started and that even if other people are judging you don't give up. He shows that through the tough times of people saying things to him he wanted to be the best he could be.

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"I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life." The author was trying to save his life from being like the rest of the Indians live on the reservation and make very little money.

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"My father loved books, and since I
loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well." The author loves there father and decided to read books also. this probably helped them bond better and could talk about books together.

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This articles purpose was to tell the people that not just one person can have some struggles and that people can have many different struggles.

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Despite all the books I read, I am still surprised I became a writer. I was going to
be a pediatrician. These days, I write novels, short stories, and poems. I visit schools
and teach creative writing to Indian kids

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As
Indian children, we were expected to fail in the non-Indian world. Those who failed were
ceremonially accepted by other Indians and appropriately pitied by non-Indians.

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. "I read books late into
the night, until I could barely keep my eyes open"

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"I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was
trying to save my life."

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"A smart Indian is a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and
non-Indians alike."

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"I am trying to save our lives."

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We lived on a combination of
irregular paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus food.

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If he'd been anything but an Indian boy living on the reservation, he might have been called a prodigy.

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But he is an Indian boy living on the reservation and is simply an oddity.

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We were poor by most standards, but one of my parents usually
managed to find some minimum-wage job or another, which made us middle-class by
reservation standards.

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I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky. I read books late intothe night, until I could barely keep my eyes open. I read books at recess, then duringlunch, and in the few minutes left after I had finished my classroom assignments

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I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky. I read books late intothe night, until I could barely keep my eyes open. I read books at recess, then duringlunch, and in the few minutes left after I had finished my classroom assignments

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My family's house was a paragraph, distinct from the
other paragraphs of the LeBrets to the north, the Fords to our south and the Tribal
School to the west.

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Brianna H
I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was
trying to save my life.

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I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to save our lives

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? I visit the schools as often as possible. The Indian kids crowd the classroom.
Many are writing their own poems, short stories and novels. They have read my books.
They have read many other books. They look at me with bright eyes and arrogant
wonder. They are trying to save their lives

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Brianna H
These days, I write novels, short stories, and poems. I visit schools and teach creative writing to Indian kids.

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im a smart indian

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Jace: I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky. I read books late into the night, until I could barely keep my eyes open. I read books at recess, then during lunch, and in the few minutes left after I had finished my classroom assignments. I

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Jace: I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky. I read books late into the night, until I could barely keep my eyes open. I read books at recess, then during lunch, and in the few minutes left after I had finished my classroom assignments. I

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Brianna H
"Books," I say to them. "Books," I say. I throw my weight against their locked doors. The door holds. I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to save our lives.

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A little Indian boy teaches himself to read at an early age and advances quickly.

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A little Indian boy teaches himself to read at an early age and advances quickly.

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mary kate

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The purpose of this piece is to teach people to never give up and you can do anything if you put your mind to it.

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he is a writer

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a Spokane
Indian boy living with his family on the Spokane Indian Reservation in eastern
Washington state. We were poor by most standards, but one of my parents usually
managed to find some minimum-wage job or another, which made us middle-class by
reservation standards

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"I didn't have the
vocabulary to say "paragraph," but I realized that a paragraph was a fence that held
words. The words inside a paragraph worked together for a common purpose. They had
some specific reason for being inside the same fence. This knowledge delighted me."

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ella- I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to save our lives.

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ella- I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to save our lives.

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We were
Indian children who were expected to be stupid. Most lived up to those expectations
inside the classroom but subverted them on the outside. They struggled with basic
reading in school but could remember how to sing a few dozen powwow songs. They
were monosyllabic in front of their non-Indian teachers but could tell complicated s

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Jace: We lived on a combination of irregular paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus food. 

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Jace: We lived on a combination of irregular paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus food. 

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We lived on a combination of
irregular paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus food.

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Jace: My father, who is one of the few Indians who went to Catholic school on purpose,

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Jace: My father, who is one of the few Indians who went to Catholic school on purpose,

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And when he talks about how his dad had to buy books by the pound because he read so much.

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He
grows into a man who often speaks of his childhood in the third-person, as if it will somehow dull the pain and make him sound more modest about his talents.

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i refused to fail.

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"I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life. "

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Help the readers understand that no matter what people say, tell you, or expect you to do, you can do what you want, one can be as grand, brave, smart as one wants to be, just with a lot of extra work. Anyone can do anything if they put their mind and heart to it.

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"I read with equal parts joy and desperation. I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life. "

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ella- The purpose of this piece is to inform people that he took something that his father loved to do and created something that he loved to do to help others as well as himself. 

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ella- The purpose of this piece is to inform people that he took something that his father loved to do and created something that he loved to do to help others as well as himself. 

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The author shows pathos in many places. When he says, "My father loved books, and since I loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well."

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The author shows pathos in many places. When he says, "My father loved books, and since I loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well."

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mary kate

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"My father loved books, and since I
loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well."

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i think that the most impactful line from the piece is that even though meny told him to give up he still continued with his dream

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"These days, I write novels, short stories, and poems."

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The Purpose of this piece is inform people that you can take something that is your fathers, that he loved doing and you can turn it into something for yourself.

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I didn't have the
vocabulary to say "paragraph," but I realized that a paragraph was a fence that held
words

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They submissively ducked their heads when confronted by a non-Indian adult but would slug it out with the Indian bully who was 10 years older. As Indian children, we were expected to fail in the non-Indian world. Those who failed were ceremonially accepted by other Indians and appropriately pitied by non-Indians.

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We lived on a combination of
irregular paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus food

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The purpose is to show that anyone can do anything at anytime of their life. It shows to always try your hardest and never give up.

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Despite all the books I read, I am still surprised I became a writer. I was going to be a pediatrician

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Despite all the books I read, I am still surprised I became a writer. I was going to
be a pediatrician. These days, I write novels, short stories, and poems. I visit schools
and teach creative writing to Indian kids.

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ella-. I read with equal parts joy and desperation. I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life.

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ella-. I read with equal parts joy and desperation. I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life.

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the purpose of this piece is him explaining how much he loves reading