What You Pawn I Will Redeem Summary

There are different types of people in this world. Some of them value material things other value family. In the story “What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” by Sherman Alexie, Jackson was a homeless Indian man whose actions made him seem that he didn’t care about money. He was driven to accomplish something in order to get back his grandmother’s regalia.

A homeless and drunk man like Jackson had no motivation in his life until he saw something that made him motivate and work for it. According to Sherman Alexie, Jackson said, “that’s my grandmother’s regalia in your window,” I said. “Somebody stole it from her fifty years ago, and my family has been searching for it since” (3). He saw his grandmother’s regalia maybe it brought him memories. He was a homeless man with no family and he wanted to have something that could make him feel like he had somebody else besides himself. He got surprise when he saw that regalia because according to him, his family was searching for it a long time ago. “he pulled out the regalia out of the window, laid it down on the glass

Jackson had to accomplish something in less than twenty four hours. In the story What You Pawn I will Redeem, Sherman Alexie states that, “I know it’s crazy, but I wondered whether I could bring my grandmother back to life if I brought back her regalia. I needed money, big money, so I left Junior and walked over to the Real Change Office” (6). Jackson left his drunk homeless friend and went into the search for those nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars. He was very encouraged, his grandmother’s memory helped him fight for something in life. In this case that regalia was what he wanted more than anything else. Knowing that his grandma was a wonderful woman he didn’t want to let her down at least not in this because that regalia was very important to her. Jackson did many different thing in order to get that money, but he