In his short work, “What You Pawn I Will Redeem”, author Sherman Alexie presents an audience with a range of controversies, a defining trademark of this Spokane writer. In this work, a reader follows the homeless Native, Jackson Jackson, through the streets of Seattle on a quest to regain his grandmother’s powwow regalia. Heavy recurring elements of poverty and alcoholism run their course throughout this short story. When observing the representation of his own culture within the text, a question
mber 18, 2015 In Sherman Alexies “What you pawn I will redeem” his main character Jackson Jackson comes to play in the story as homeless drunk man. The way Alexie makes Jackson Jackson personality to view life despite his situation is quite unique. Jackson Jackson is a character filed with hope all throughout the story, more hope than most of us will ever have. The situation he faces lead him to more and more optimism. He lives his life so different from ours, things that we would only happen a
unlikely for people to be generous enough to share their money. In Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem”, his main character, Jackson Squared is the complete opposite from the people of today. Jackson is a caring, and optimistic homeless man who does not find money to be an important value. Instead, Jackson shows us that he takes pleasure in sharing what little money he has with others. Jackson stumbles upon a Pawn Shop where he sees a regalia hanging in the window and he is certain it is his