Jeremy’s AP Blog

1. The effect of the saying is showing that he grew up in poor family never knowing if they would have the next meal.
2. The stereotype that the narrator talks about Indian men is that they are not educated and they do not care about learning and in the story his father is an avid reader and tons of books.
3. When he said a fence he was referring to the paragraphs saying that these paragraphs are contained by an essay as a dog would be contained by a fence.
4. When he describes “an Indian boy” he is talking in third person.
5. He is trying to emphasize on how many books he read.
6. The two sections are separated in the essay because he wants to give the reader some background information and then get his point across. This suits Alexie’s overall purpose well because he is trying to excite Indian boys about reading