Short Story Review

1121-5436 Short Story review

here is the document we drafted in class.  Feel free to reply with additional entries to add to the information in the document.

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The story is pretty long, but i enjoy reading it. because the writter did  not go into detail about how he becomes homeless. He just breif us , so he let us know that sometimes our dreams might not come through the way we plan it. sometime we could own a home and before we realise we could be homeless. some thing to think about no matter how small  we are when we get older whatever we see the image would still be in our heads, because he just take a glisp at that regalia and remember that his grandmother had one.

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“What you pawn I will Redeem”

This  story  was  about  a  Spokane  Indian  named  “Jackson Jackson”  whoose  on  a  journey  to  redeem  his  grandmothers  regailia.  He’s  a  homeless  man  who  lives  his  life  day  by  day.  He’s  lives  in  seattle  where  indians  are  common  to  live. Everyday  he  spends  his  time  drinking  alcohol  with  his  friends Rose of Sharon and  Junior.  So  one  day  he  came  across  a  pawn  shop  where  he  saw  a  regailia.  He believed  it  was  his  grandmothers  but  wasn’t  to  sure  because  he  only  seen  it  in  photographs.  But  pawnbroker  wouldint  give  it  back  to  him,  so  he  said  he’ll  sell  it  to  him  for  a  ninehundred and  ninteynine  dollars.   Jackson  only  had  five  dollars  to  buy  back  the  regailia.  He  sell  newspaper’s  on  a  daily  basis,  so  he  thought  to  ask  his  boss  for  a  thosand  dollars.  His  boss  said  “NO”  but  gave  him  50  free  papers.  He  sold  five  of  them  and  threw  away  the rest.  Afterwards  he  went  to  bar to  get  drunk  and  also  get  beaten  up.  Lateron  he  woke  up  on  the  train  tracks  by  his  cop  friend.  The  cop  gave  him  thirty  dollars  and  bought  breakfast  for  his  friends.  Then  he  wnt  back  to  the  pawn  shop  with  the  last  five  dolars  and  got  back  the  regailia.  I  thought  it  was  a  very  interesting  story.

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What you pawn i shall redeem

i found this story to be very long than the others. however it was funny though. the way the character kepy himself even though he was homeless. he was happy to use the employees bathroom of the resturants. he was really proud of himself for beign well known to all the mangers that own resturants. the story is about him seeing his grandmother’s regalia in the window of a pwan shop and remembers that it was stolen and now he wants it back. the guy at the pawn shop tells him  if he gets nine hundred and ninty-nine dollars he can get the regalia back. he goes out to try and get to this money within 24 hours.on his way he encounters different approaches to get the money and he does get it , but he ends up spending it on people that he meets and drink out the money too. so in the end he goes back to the pawn shop with only five dollars and ask they guy to still give him the regaila. the guy feels sorry for him and ends up giving it to him.

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What You Pawn I Will Redeem

This Story was very enjoyable to read. I had never read a story from the point of view of a homeless person before and this man seemed like he was a good person over all. He has a big heart and in the end he gets what he wanted at the beginning of the story. I’m glad that the pawn shop owner decided to give it to him because he saw the worth of it to him. To be so happy over something most people would just find simple, is a great quality to have. The moral of this story is basically that if you work hard for something or if you want it bad enough, it will eventually be given to you.

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what you pawn i will redeem

The story is a bout a homeless man who accidentally saw his grandmothers regalia in a pawn shop window one day when he was walking to a 7 eleven with his friends. After going into the pawn shop and proving that he was the owner of the regalia and it was stolen. The pawn broker agreed to sell it to him for $999. Jackson started his on his journey to get the money to get back his grandmother’s regalia.

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What You Pawn I will Redeem

This story was a bit longer then the rest. It was about an Indian boy called jacks on. the story is about getting back a piece of clothing that belonged to his grandfather. This clothing is in a pawn shop. The pawn shop owner says it is worth one thousand dollars and he can have it back if he gets him the money in 24 hours. the boy then spends the rest of his day trying to get the money. he asks people to lend him money, steals and sells newspapers. By the end of the day he ends up using all the money. He goes back to the shop with only five dollars however the owner decides to give him the clothing.

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What You Pawn I Will Redeem

The story, What You Pawn I Will Redeem was taken place in 2003. The narrator, Jackson Jackson is a Spokane Indian boy also known as an Interior Salish. In the story, Jackson Jackson narrates his journey on trying to find enough money to win back his grandmothers regalia, a decorated clothing worn by dancers of a powwow which is a traditional Native American ceremony. Throughout the story, Jackson Jackson tries to gain his grandmothers regalia back from a pawnbroker that somehow has possession over the regalia. The pawnbroker tells the Indian boy that the piece of clothing is worth one thousand dollars and is therefore, selling it to him for that amount. The two men make a deal that if Jackson earns $1000 to give to him at lunchtime the next day, the regalia is his. Jackson tries to find ways of making that much money in less than 24 hours. He tries selling newspapers, convincing people into lending him money and even steals money from his friend, Junior. In few situations, Jackson was successful in earning money but not quite enough to win back his grandmothers regalia. Even with the money he earns, he somehow finds a way to spend it on something nonsensical. In the story, I think Jackson understands the value of money and how important his grandmother’s decortative clothing really is to him. Although, Jackson doesn’t attain enough money for the regalia, the pawnbroker gives it to him anyway because he sees how hard the Indian boy worked for it.

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What You Pawn I Will Redeem

This story was very strange and interesting; it was about an Indian named “Jackson Jackson” spending 24 hours of his life trying to earn nine hundred ninety nine dollars so he can buy the clothes piece that belonged to his dead grandmother.  It starts off as him saying that Indians are great liars, and he is walking around with his friends when he saw regalia displayed on a window of a Pawn Shop.  He walked in asking for the price, and I guess the owner was taking advantage of him saying that it is worth thousand dollars. Then Jackson Jackson goes outside spends his 24 hours drinking and smoking with other Indians that he come across and for some reason all the Indians he met left the town or died after Jackson is unconscious.  During his journey of making $999 dollars for the regalia he encounters many “nice” people, I’m guessing that these “nice” people he encounter already knew what kind of person Jackson was and was going along with him and helping him by giving him money.  Ironically Jackson spends all the money he received from the town’s people and goes back to the pawn shop 24 hours later with $5 in his hands.  The shop owner gives him the regalia out of pity but Jackson sees it as his generosity.  This story kept me going as I was reading, because Jackson’s next actions were unpredictable and also the story was very interesting.  However some part of the story seemed suspicious as if it was not the truth and was falsely told intentionally by the author.

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What You Pawn I Will Redeem Reponse

The story was very interesting, inspit of the length of the story, I found myself highly enthrall in the quest of the hero of the story, and I used both terms approriately. Granted, the hero of the story is a greatly flawed hero: he’s a homeless man, a drunkard, and a bit of a thief– but he’s no less an hero in the fact that he is honest, kind-hearted, and commited to his friends — both old and new– and the ones he loves (even if the love he feels isn’t returned). And his quest, however small and meaningless to others, is still a quest in the noblest of sense: he seeks to retrieve his families prized stolen treasure and (in a sense) redeem their lose honor, this quest is faced with impossible odds and filled with forces set agianst him, but also with good allies to assist him. The most interesting part of this tale is that, despit himself and his imperfections, he continues to stride forward, not accepting the easy route out of his problems but to “win” his prize, this in and of itself proves that he has honor– even if it wavers at times, and that there are good men that still exist in the world– even if they live in the gutter.

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