Tonto Fistfight In Heaven

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven The short story of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie uses the prognostic as the first person narrator. Moreover, this story presents two conflicts in the life of the dynamic character of the narrator, as it follows a tormented path to his eventual change. The central idea presented by the author of the story reveals the internal conflict of the protagonist, and societal prejudices are reflected in the tone. The tribal history and the present world of the prognostic collide in an unfavorable but predictable outcome. Connect The narrator’s use of “I” and “me” to describe himself reflects his narration as the prognostic in the first person. Thinking the store clerk looked at him with suspicion is the first display of the social conflict. The prognostic’s attempt to look as if he is up to something as a joke contributed to the suspicion of the clerk. As the prognostic thought back to an interaction with the police, he was told by the police “you don’t fit the profile of this neighborhood.”(Alexie 15). The tenor of the officer meant he was out of place, deeply engraining the social conflict of his looks. The attempt to upsell the narrator by the clerk, the use of the word treaty in his description of this action set a different tone. Reflecting on his native history are the theft of his people’s land. During …show more content…
The narrator thought of an Indian Poet came to mind, “Indians can reside in the city, but they can never live there.” (417). Affirming how American Indian history compounded the inner struggle of the prognostic as the past and present are woven together. He is the first to attend college, the narrator was looked upon as the one who could break the negative tradition. The narrator was given the best chance for success, consequently, he failed because of his inability to control his inner