Ten Little Indians

Fritz Perls once said I am non in this sphere to embody up to other peoples expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. In the nobble story The Search Engine, by Sherman Alexie, the homegrown Ameri notify culture is trying to live up to the expectations of the white world. The main subject Corliss, a Spokane Indian, is judge to do healthful in college so she can be given back to the reservation to help her federation of family lines. on that point is also a cultural dispute between our world and that of the Spokane when it comes to the roles of gender.Corliss is a truly bright individual who has plans beyond the Spokane reservation. When Corliss was junior she was ridiculed for her love of reading. Even though her passionateness for reading is part of the reason she was up to(p) to attend college, the manpower in her tribe still disagree with reading well-nigh nineteenth century white people. contempt the disagreements they are all very upli fted that she is pursuing a higher education. Corlisss parents boast about how Corliss will angiotensin-converting enzyme day come back to fastener everything that is wrong with the tribe.In reality they are unlettered to Corlisss real dreams and ambitions. Gender roles can be defined as the behaviors and attitudes expected of male and female members of a edict by that society. In the Spokane tribe the women make more money and held bettor jobs than the men. In our society, even with more equality for women today, men earn a substantial totality more than women do. For the Spokane men to just mold around and brag about their spouses accomplishments seems nugatory to our culture.Native American culture is very unalike from that of American culture. Rather than the Spokane tribesmen trying to better the tribe themselves, they are counting on Corliss to graduate law school and put in the problems of the tribe. The men of the tribe are not fully applying themselves to employme nt, the tribe, or each other. The values, goals, and practices of the Spokane tribe make their culture foreign to the bonny American.