Sherman Alexie's Character For The Great American Indian Novel

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Alexie provides the readers a succinct description of character for the great American Indian novel. In the first 22 lines, he discusses the characters, both hero and heroine. For the hero for example, there some qualities that must be possessed. In general, the great American Indian novel must have a character with the tragic features (line 1-2). They must have secrets (line 14-15), and see visions (line 25). Aside from the tragic features, having secret and seeing vision, first of all the hero must be a half-breed (line 3-4); second, he should endure a tragic life which requires him to weep a lot and suffers alone (line 4); third, an Indian hero is the destroyer of his heroine’s life (line 16-17); and fourth, he must be ‘smelling wild and

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