Education can serve as a life saver by providing options for one when they feel stuck or in helpless situations. Having an education gives you multiple pathways in not just career options but with a broad spectrum of knowledge which can also better your communications skills. These communication skills can assist you in everyday relationships. Alexie is a perfect example of how education saved his life. He lived on the Spokane Indian reservation in eastern Washington which gave him limited options of a future outside Indian culture and traditions. Instead of struggling with English and writing, singing powwow songs he spent his day reading everything he could get his hands on.
Alexie is now a writer although he was planning on being a pediatrician. He goes to schools and teaches the Indian children creative writing. Alexie knows that writing is beyond the Indians, so he provides these children an opportunity to a new world, a new opportunity in life. He teaches them poetry, short stories and novels. These children look up to Alexie, they are now reading books and engaging more in the writing process.
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Preston,
ReplyDeleteYou are so accurate that education can be a life saver. It does open doors and opportunities that may have been closed otherwise.I also believe that through education and his writing it saved his life as he was able to leave the life he may have been meant to lead. Alexia changed his ability to earn money and rise above the poverty of his early life. I agree that he was then able to lead by example to the kids he later taught how to read and write.