Discuss “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” by Sherman Alexie. Consider the following questions:
What are the tone and mood of this story? How did they impact you?
Sherman Alexie has said that “the true purpose of art is to ask questions.” How faithful to that purpose is this story? What questions or ideas does Alexie ask us to consider?
Into which quadrant do you think Sherman Alexie would fall on the artist/audience relationship diagram, and why?
The narrator finds his grandmother’s headdress in a pawnshop, priced far beyond his reach; what do you think Alexie intended as the significance of this discovery?
What might the narrator’s quest to regain the regalia symbolize?
The three Aleut Indians come, go, and disappear. Why are these characters in the story? Would the story have been equally powerful without these characters? there is the article: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/04/21/030421fi_fiction?currentPage=all
