Lone Pine

some to Thomas. He recognize the impact his father had on Thomas. By going to phoenix, and learning his father, and how much his father had love him, finally had strength to forgive and accept himself who he was. In contrast to the movie, the book The Lone Ranger and the Tonto Fistfight in Heaven give an in-depth into the story Victor and his family. As they struggles through hardship and financial difficulty. Some of differences I came across was the beginning of the book and movie. The movie,…

and pig’s feet. The idea of these features mashed together just seems impossible. This bizarre creature is believed to inhabit Pine Barrens, in Southern New Jersey. How could such a strange creature come into existence? There are many different variations of the Jersey Devil legend, but the more known one tells the story of Mother Jane Leeds. Mother Leeds lived in Pine Barrens in poverty. The year 1735 came by, Mother Leeds found that she was pregnant with her 13th child. She believed this child…

The story of “The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven” by Sherman Alexie is not only the title of his published book, but it is also the title of one the chapters in this book; which is found on page 181 of the book. In this short story, he shares events and experiences where he has been racially profiled and thought to be someone he’s not; as well as shares his experience with his trip back home. “The Lone Ranger and Tonto” being the classic story of an American cowboy and a Native…

Sherman Alexie’s “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” is a 1993 short story that looks into the life of a Native American man who is depressed after a failed relationship with a white woman in Seattle. Now living alone in the Spokane Indian Reservation, the narrator feels haunted by his past and affects him in daily interactions. The majority of the narrator’s views are negative and his own race is seen as divided from America, even when Native American home is America the narrator…

Alexie uses many interesting features to make the interconnected short stories in his book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven more thought-provoking and charismatic. Such features include a blend of reality and fantasy, humor and seriousness, and truth and memory. Throughout the book we get many stories that are fantastical versions of the harsh realities of life as a Native American. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a book that tells uncensored truths of an oppressed…

In Sherman Alexie’s collection titled The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, many characters in this collection of stories intellectually benefit one another from telling their own stories. Native Americans can retain their history and cultural customs this way. For instance, Thomas Builds-the-Fire enjoys telling stories that are often surreal and have historical and natural contexts. His stories give his listeners observation of Native American history and how their experience had…

Two of them were “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” (1993) and “The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” (2007) due to their crude language, sexism, violence, and much more. Alexie responded to the book ban by saying it “made the books more sacred”. A few…

Sherman Alexie’s short story “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” follows a young Native American man in Seattle. It starts late at night with the narrator walking to a 7-11. When he enters, it is obvious that the cashier is visibly uncomfortable because of the narrator’s appearance. The look given to him reminds the narrator of his white ex-girlfriend, leading to flashbacks of their past fights. After one of their arguments, he dreamed that he and his girlfriend were a minor war…

decline of one of California’s most abundant species, the Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa). Ponderosa pine trees have a wide range and can be found throughout the western United States, southern Canada, and northern Mexico (Little 1971). Here in California they primarily occupy mountainous regions but have been found in elevations ranging from sea level to 10,000 ft. depending on latitude (Oliver and Ryker 1990). Ponderosa pines are susceptible to further decline as we continue to see…

Coevolution is the process by which two or more closely interacting species evolve in response to one another. Darwin is attributed with first hypothesizing coevolution in “On the Origin of Species” published in 1859; since that time, coevolution has become one of the cornerstones of modern evolutionary biology. The species that lead to the discovery of coevolution was the Angraecum Sesquipedale, a variety of orchid with a spur extending over 30cm long. When Darwin received a sample from…