Alexies’ collection of short stories addresses the difficulties and the many serious problems that the Indians face, including familial dysfunction, alcoholism, poverty, limited educational opportunity and isolation. Alexie starts his book by establishing a figurative relationship between the life experiences of modern-day Indian with the history of their ancestors. In “Every Little Hurricane,” by depicting a nightmare on a New Year Eve around little Victor, he immediately starts to suggest the complexity of the connection between the modern day Indian hardships and the history of their ancestors. With the title itself indicated as a reference to difficult times along with the horrible fight between Arnold and Adolph, “Strangers would never
