“What You Pawn, I Will Buy Back” is a story written by Sherman Alexie. The story takes place in Seattle, Washington and follows homeless Native American named Jackson Jackson on his journey to obtain his grandmother's regalia that was stolen 50 years ago. He finds the insignia at a pawn shop and spends the rest of the story doing many different things to try to earn enough money to be able to buy them back. Throughout the story, the author uses Jackson's humor and sympathy to do an impressive job of making the reader feel compassion for Jackson. But when you examine the story more closely, you discover that in the end, Jackson is just a touchy, homeless alcoholic. You learn early on in the story that Jackson Jackson didn't have the best life. He flunked out of college in Seattle, got married a couple of times, had a few kids, and is now homeless. Jackson admits that "being homeless is probably the only thing I've ever been good at" and describes himself as an "effective homeless man." We also learn that Jackson suffers from some sort of mental disorder "a...