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Introduction 10 little Indians is a collection of stories by native American author Sherman Alexie these stories have in common that there is an oppressed person who is shunned by society. I have chosen to write about the perspective of a character in the story “can I get a witness”. In the story, the guy is lusting for the suicidal girl who is a native American.

Now first off, the story starts off in a restaurant where a girl whose name is Susan is waiting for her check. First, the tension starts to rise up, as the girl is speculating what the waiter is doing with her credit card. In the story Susan makes outlandish guesses like using it to buy porn, or hiring a prostitute. In the middle of all of the tension building up a Syrian American suicide bomber bombs a restaurant and kills a bunch of people. Then Susan went home with a random stranger, who is described as burly and 10 pounds overweight. Anyways, he takes Susan home and she reveals some dark thoughts about how she believes certain people don’t have a right to life. At first, the man is morbidly disturbed, about these dark thoughts and attempts to throw Susan out of his house. After she reveals her thoughts and they talk he decides to take Susan to the hospital. Towards the end of the story, he begins to share Susan's perspective of that some people deserve to die, and that people are inherently evil. SUMMARIZE STORY

Let’s imagine what the main character was thinking after he dropped the girl off and drove home alone.

Topic 1 how he felt about the day’s experience and her In my opinion, Susan was one of the most interesting people I have ever met. To be honest,

most girls wouldn’t be interested in a fat burly guy like me. Although I don’t ask for anyone’s pity, I don’t wear my heart on my sleeve like any wimp. Today I would like to talk about my lovely encounter with Susan. Susan is a very cute person. Believe me, she looks like a doll. Her soft lips were like the touch of god when she kissed me. Her dreamy eyes felt like I just ended up in heaven. She means the world to me and I am almost certain that it was love at first site. I hate to sound like a whiny high schooler, who gets all emotional when they meet someone but that’s how I feel right now. Looking like a fat hillbilly and the type of person that people would generally avoid I guess I can understand why. She was the only interesting thing that I have seen in this crummy city. In Seattle, the climate is hell, as the sun hasn’t shined in over 100 days straight! Do you call this life? However, this crummy town where the weather is terrible made me appreciate Susan more. See, Susan represented the sunlight in Seattle she symbolized the nice summer days in July. Although it was awesome to be with her, she did show me some downsides. For example, That girl attempted to justify the atrocities of 9/11. I know I stated before that I strongly disagreed with her, but now I think I changed my mind. I believe that some people are inherently evil, and maybe even deserve to die, however, I wouldn't be so vocal about it. Being honest I wasn’t disturbed about her thoughts on 9/11 as I was on the idea that she wanted to kill herself. I don’t see myself in a relationship, with someone who is suicidal. Maybe it’s just a stigma, as I have stated I do watch a lot of fox news, but I just don’t see myself being with someone who is so demonic. In addition to her interesting take on death She also had the terrible idea that she wanted to die in the building. There is no sugar coating this, Susan was a paranoid schizophrenic who was suicidal. Some use the term suicidal, but I use the term demonic. I believe that her connection to god was not there and that’s why she was so demonic. Anyways I hope she is ok, I wonder for extended periods of time about how she is being treated at the hospital. If it was me, I wouldn't trust those doctors to work their voodoo on me. It seems to me that doctors would only be in the business for themselves. Topic 2 How he has things in common with Susan

Just like Susan, I was excluded from society for controversial opinions and unstable mindset I have been excluded from society for joking about 9/11! I now understand what millennials mean when they use the word snowflake. People get offended over too much. I believe that jokes are a good way to hide the real pain that I feel. Susan and I both have one thing in common, we both let people down. See Susan has most likely let people down at the workplace. Someone with that level of cognitive thinking simply cannot be effective in the workplace. I have let people down by never being there for my friends and family. Not once have I supported someone, truly cared about someone or helped someone on a bad day. Until I met Susan. One thing that Susan has done that really has really made me look at the world from a different perspective was that she showed me that some deserve to die. I mean the last time I went outside I could see the evil in everyone's eyes. I could imagine Tommy, beating his wife or Jimmy bullying little kids, I could see everyone making fun of the most vulnerable and I now understand that people are inherently evil, and some deserve to die. Although I agree with Susan that some people deserve to die, I greatly oppose the idea that Susan deserved to die. When I was checking her out, I could not find one ounce of evil or hate in her body. All I could find was fear and shame, but no evil.

Topic 3: What the main character doesn’t like about Susan: I’ve always considered myself a traditionalist, who is a big fan of family values and I may have some preconceived notions about what life should be like. One of the things that she said that really surprised me is that she stated she “hates her husband!” God formed the foundation of a marriage to ensure that you love your partner not hate them! Anyways, as pretty as she was, I really don’t like the idea that she attempted to fight me, it made me feel very uneasy and nervous. Anyways that’s the past and I don’t want to get into it. I really wasn’t too keen of her obsession with death. Maybe it’s this crummy town and the fact that lack of sunlight can cause gloominess in people but I really didn’t need to listen to a paranoid schizophrenic talk to me about how she wish she was dead.

Darn it, my working-class life in helland Seattle is bad enough, I don’t need anyone to make it worse. You know what? I wish I never met Susan. That girl has turned me into a monster! Who am I to rationalize the killings of everyday Americans. Sure they might not be perfect, but nobody is. I feel like a swamp monster, just looking into the mirror and seeing how ugly my soul is. What the heck is wrong with me?! Conclusion- Man it’s just one of those days. I guess any day where someone tries to blow up a building would just make you tired. Meeting Susan was one of the silver linings of the day, and I have mixed feelings about her. I am almost certain that I am never going to see her again, I guess I feel kind of solemn. Well you know what they say, life goes on!

Justification- My character references fox news because during the terrorist attack he references “radical islam” and then states that “he has been watching too much fox news” due to this quote I incorporated the use of God to show his conservative views. In my monologue, the character has a change in opinion of who deserves to die because in the chapter Can I Get A Witness, at the end of the book the main character completely changes his opinion on who deserves to die. In my monologue, the main character is somewhat disrespectful towards Susan because in the book he called Susan “crazy pussy”...