What You Pawn I Will Redeem Analysis
"What
You
Pawn
I
Will
Redeem"
is
the
story
of
a
financially
strapped
Spokane
Indian
man
faced
with
the
task
of
coming
up
with
nearly
one
thousand
dollars
in
twenty-four
hours
in
order
to
reclaim
his
grandmother's
stolen
powwow
attire
from
a
pawnshop.
The
story
takes
place
in
Seattle
over
the
course
of
one
day,
and
is
narrated
by
the
central
character,
Jackson
Jackson. Jackson
introduces
himself
to
the
reader
by
telling
of
his
move
twenty-three
years
ago
from
Spokane
to
Seattle
to
go
to
college,
where
he
"flunked
out
within
two
semesters,
worked
various
blue-
and
bluer-collar
jobs
for
many
years,
married
two
or
three
times,
fathered
two
or
three
kids,
and
then
went
crazy."
Jackson
then
introduces
the
people
he
hangs
out
with
on
the
street,