Also, in Alexie's situation he was expected to be mediocre by both students and teachers because he was a “stupid Indian” (). While the speaker mentioned in the daughter was encouraged to share and read in front of the class by her teachers. Since both school environments were different, everyone had a different school experience. Finally, they both grew up in different cultures. The spokesperson for "Daughter of Invention" is a Dominican-American, so she had a conflict between the Dominican culture where she was expected to be a housekeeper/mother and the American culture where she could be anything she wanted to be (). Even though Alexie grew up on a Native American reservation in the United States in a different culture than hers. These differences in their situations affected the meaning of reading and writing for both characters, giving them a different perspective on what it means to read and write. The “Daughter of Invention” speaker saw the meaning of writing as a way to express herself, while Alexie saw it as an opportunity to learn and become smarter. Being a daughter of invention, being originally from the Dominican Republic, the speaker was expected to grow up to be a mother one day(). However, American culture made her realize that she could be whatever she was