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This 3 page paper discusses the ways in which these authors try to cope with prejudice, using Alexie's story "Class" and Jen's story "Who's Irish?" for reference. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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to her works about Chinese and Chinese-Americans. In both cases, the authors speak for people who live in America and yet remain forever outsiders. This paper discusses the ways in
which these authors try to cope with prejudice, using Alexies story "Class" and Jens story "Whos Irish?" for reference. Discussion When a person mounts a defense, it is to keep
from being hurt further. Because the characters in these stories are the victims of prejudice, they find ways to cope that no white person would think to use-or have to
use. The Indian in Alexies story (he prefers the term Indian to "native American") quite literally wants to fight for the right to be seen as an Indian by other
Indians; the grandmother in "Whos Irish?" relies on tradition in an attempt to win respect and acceptance from her family. Neither ploy works. Edgar Eagle Runner is a successful lawyer;
a Spokane Indian who marries a white woman. Like many of the characters in mixed marriages in Alexies stories, he feels a strong pull toward his people and away from
the white society in which he now moves. Edgars mother had always wanted him to marry a white woman, Alexie tells us, so that he would "beget half-breed children who
would marry white people who would beget quarter-bloods, and so on and so on, until simple mathematics killed the Indian in us" (Alexie, 2000, p. 40). In that simple statement,
Alexie sums up what appear to be the feelings of many Indians: they are ashamed of their heritage and want instead to belong to another world, the white world.
Early in the second year of their marriage, Edgars wife Susan began an affair with a man named Harry (Alexie, 2000). Edgar never confronts her with his knowledge of the
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