"School Days"
This is the author's anglicized (white) name.
What is Gertrude Bonin?
The author of "Indian Education"
Who is Sherman Alexie?
The author of There There.
Who is Tommy Orange?
This is what the "iron horse" refers to in the story.
What is the train she was riding?
This is what Junior was experiencing in first grade.
What is bullying?
The drawing of a headdressed, long-haired Indian broadcasted on late night TVs when all the shows ran out.
What is the Indian head test pattern?
Giving human like characteristics to a non-human object.
What is personification?
This was a defining moment for the author in Part II.
What is the cutting of her braids?
The two "almost innocent choices" the author mentions in Fifth Grade.
What is using drugs/substance abuse and basketball?
What is Thanksgiving?
The juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected.
What is irony?
What are snow angels?
A symbol Junior uses throughout the text to represent his connection to his culture.
What is the length of his hair?
"We didn't have [these] before they came" (Orange, 139).
What are last names?
An indirect reference to something or someone famous or well-known.
What is an allusion?
What "the white man's devil" represents to the author.
What is "white culture"?
The interpretation of the headline "INDIANS LOSE AGAIN."
What is Junior's team losing and Native Americans historically losing their land, culture, or dignity?
A metaphor used by Orange to represent the injustices, racial discrimination, and generational trauma experienced by Native Americans even now.
What are stray bullets?
The repetition of the beginning of consecutive phrases or clauses.
What is anaphora?