1. He uses the figure of speech to show that his living conditions were not very good growing up.
2. He went to Catholic school on purpose, and he actually loved to read books, something that is not usually seen from Men of his background.
3. The effect is that the reader sees how paragraphs work in a different way than they usually see it. Alexie gives an explanation that makes more sense than one would think about.
4. He means that he wants to distance himself from his childhood by referring to his child self as someone else completely.
6. In the first part, Alexie sets up the background, as shows that he was by all means an oddity in his environment. In part two. he explains how reading saved himself. It is divided this way so that the reader can make the connection that Alexie considers his child-life separate from his adult life. His purpose is to show that he became a reader despite what others felt about it.
7. In both paragraphs he talks about his desire to save lives. In both final sentences he refers to himself.
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