1. He used oxymoron in the quote. The things he listed contradicted each other like hope and fear.
2. His father studied in a Catholic school and was a reader. He always bought books and brought them home. Indians are stereotypically dumb and uneducated, so his father clashes with the stereotype and most definitely proves them wrong.
3. He described grammar and writing with organization in a way that even children would be able to understand. It is deep and effective, but simple and easy to understand at the same time.
4. He most likely spoke about his life as if he was telling a story about another man who went through these amazing struggles or adventures. He placed his past in the past and if he brought up, he spoke about it as if he was talking about someone else other than himself.
6. He organized these different topics that he wanted to talk about into different sections in a way where they could support the previous section and help the reader understand what he was trying to say. It's kinda like building block of information and details, piling up on top of each other until it looks like a tower.
7. Alexie's parallel structure included the word "read" when he was talking about all of the things he read. It was like a laundry list of how much he truly cared about reading. To add to the literary effect, he ended each parallel structure with a sentence similar to "I'm trying to save my life." It was a beautiful part of the essay, showing how important reading and knowledge is to people, and how much he cherished it.
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