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Bilingual Instructions &
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"Bilingual Instructions"
by: Harryette Mullen
- Californians say no to bilingual instructions in schools and on ballots, but yes to curbside waste receptacles
"Bilingual
Instructions"
"How to Write the Great American Indian Novel"
- The dominant Californians exclude and discriminate against those who speak Spanish and prevent them from being able to succeed in school and having the right to vote
- Mullen involves systems of power such as education, politcs, and labor
- Alexie uses satire, irony, and sarcasm to mock and undermine an aspect of society
- Discrimination against a minority and taking on a collective persona to stereotype them.
- Both poems are constructed in couplets and are formulaic
- Majority rule; collected beliefs and opinions from the masses
- Excluding the subject to be anything other than what the guidelines and constrictions allow
- The element of extinction and history
- Tells the subject exactly what they are capable of and there is no room for anything different
- Tells the subject their only option is low wage manual labor; stereotypical landscaper
- All that is left of indians are stereotypes that are not true
- Uses two languages in the poem
- Historical
- Present day
- Metanarrative - A comment in the way of telling a story
- Repetition
Central Claim
"How to Write the Great American Indian Novel"
by: Sherman Alexie
"She should be compared to nature: brown hills , mountains, fertile valleys, dewy grass, wind, and clear water."
The false stereotypes illustrated in both Mullen and Alexie's poems prevent the targeted minority collectively from being successful in systems of power and contributing to society
"In the Great American Indian novel, when it is finally written, all the white people will be Indians and all of the Indians will be ghosts."
Stereotypes & discrimination in
"Bilingual Instructions" &
"How to write the great american indian novel"
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