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You-Tube is a website in which you can look up anything from rap videos to mini clips of history events. I highly enjoy looking up videos on famous celebrities and/or interesting topics of interests of mine. For example, I enjoy looking up videos on the Kennedy family because I find their family history very intense and interesting. When we watched the clip on Sherman Alexie, I had no idea that his voice would even sound like that for one and I was very interested in what he had to say. After reading the novel to actually hearing him speak, I was surprised to see how sarcastic and humorous he is and very surprised I actually laughed out loud a lot of the times while watching it. It’s surprising to see that Sherman Alexie is that sarcastic being that his writing is quite difficult to pick up the humor from his analogies and the hidden jokes he makes in his story.

Trickster is a word that can have many definitions. It can mean pulling a prank on someone or a practical joke. When I think of the word trickster, I think of an old lady, perhaps even my grandmother saying to me when I was little while rocking on a chair saying, “Ohh that trickster”. On pages 56-57, an example of a trickster is when the Indian boys run by making Indian noises w/their mouths and pretend shoot one another and the one yells, “Bang, you’re dead Indian.”