Writing style
Sherman's writing style shines at the consistency of his characters, the settings, and his word choice. His characters consist of Native American backgrounds that usually struggle to fit in with others due to their difference in social class and culture. These characters in his stories usually have some sort of problem they try to overcome that has to deal with their culture. Sherman's use of settings help to compare or help understand the differences in experiences and characteristics seen in the characters, like the difference of views between Native Americans and non Natives. Sherman's word choice is interpreted in many different ways, for example, during conversations between two characters Sherman sometimes uses street level vocabulary that consists of salty language and frequent sentence fragments. For dark times in Sherman's writings, he uses dark humor in order to create a unique atmosphere, he uses words that target stereotypes and doesn't avoid the truth.
Emulation
Millions are dead, thousands are injured, and a war has started. One year earlier, I was born, my name is Oli and I'm not from earth. I'm from an alien planet and neither of my parents are from earth either, I grow in age way faster than humans on earth due to my mothers genes but overtime my aging slows and I will live for thousands of years due to my father's genes. I came to earth after my planet was attacked by powerful beings called ultramites that try to take over the galaxy, my half-brother Marc and father Nalon are related to these powerful beings, my father being a pure blood ultramite and by half-brother being half ultramite and half human. My half-brother was there the day my planet was attacked, he and my father helped fight off the intruders, the reason my father and brother arn't trying to help take over my home planet is because they found the importance in life and wanted to preserve it rather than end it. After the fight, my brother took me home while my father was taken and arrested because of his traitorous actions. When I got to earth Marc's birth mother took care of me throughout my childhood, I didn't have many friends growing up, and if I did then we would grow apart after a couple months, I rarely went to school because of the age gaps, also due to me gaining my powers at a young age I spent more of my time training and fighting bad guys with Marc. My powers are the same as Marc and Nalon's, they are very powerful and allows us ultramites to overpower many if not all. My father before he turned good helped the ultramite empire on taking over earth and allowed thousands to die before leaving and moving to my planet where he met my birth mother. Due to my difference in alien race, I have purple skin and don't really fit into the societal norms of earth. I look different then all the kids I see playing and messing around, and all I want to do is fit in. Marc doesn't trust me much with fighting crime and says I'm not ready. All I want to do is prove everyone wrong to show that I belong on earth and they can trust me. Little to my knowledge I found out that my father had escaped prison with help from a friend, he came back to earth to apologize and ask for help in order to take out the rest of the ultramites, I wanted to come with but my father also believes I'm too weak, I was tired of begin treated differently and wanted to help save earth because I didn't have a change to save my planet. It felt like I wasn't wanted anywhere, earth believed I would turn bad like my father, and I would take over the planet due to me being an alien. Before my father and Marc could leave earth, the ultrimates showed up ready to take over the planet, there are only around 50 ultramites left in the galaxy, ultramites prize their power more than their population, they would rather take over planets than focus on making another generation. Without warning the ultramites started causing havoc around the world, my father and Marc started fighting, along with hundreds of other superheroes around the world. I was able to help, and prove myself to everyone that I'm not who they say I am. It took days, and millions of lives were lost but, in the end, people were able to get together and save the planet, though it was one of the worst times in this planet it was the one time I actually felt important and wanted from others.
Explanation
This story shows the hardships of an alien who isn't able to fit in due to his background and difference in abilities compared to humans. First Oli was born on a different planet from earth, meaning his background and culture isn't the same as human's are on earth. He needs to evolve to humans' culture in order to just feel like he can act and feel the same as humans. He also struggles from the difference on his skin color which isn't normal on earth. Oli needs to overcome this challenge and help prove to others just because he looks different and earth has had a bad reputation with aliens doesn't mean Oli will try and hurt humans. Lastly Oli struggles to prove he is powerful enough to gain respect from the ones that love him. Oli's family believes that because he is so young and not skilled enough to help save humanity. These all correspond with Shermans writing styles because many of Shermans characters have struggles that originate from them growing up differently, looking different compared to others, and practicing in different cultures, allowing to show how many struggles to overcome these challenges and trying to get along with others.