The book “THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN” is about the difficulties throughout each Native American’s life who were discriminated due to their ethnicity. Written by the author Sherman Alexie who was an American novelist drawing on his experience as a Native American with ancestry from several tribes. Having being brought up in Spokane Indian Reservation, Alexie was put into an atmosphere addressing the themes of despair, poverty, violence and alcoholism among the lives of Native Americans. In each of the story which he wrote in this book, he defines the struggles the Native Americans were facing through the eyes of different character that were shown in each phase of this book. Throughout history, white men’s dominated the Native
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In the beginning of this story it talks about how both Victor’s uncles were fighting against each other and in the neighborhood everyone was acting like it was no big deal. It states that “For hundreds of years, Indians were witnesses to crimes of an epic scale(Page 3).” This evidence in this story is showing the audience how lack of leadership both Victor was lacking as well as his whole neighborhood. When both Victor’s uncles were fighting, everyone was watching the fight including the character himself. Alexie uses this technique on how Native Americans were selfish. These Native Americans don’t care for one another and Alexie proves this through both Victor’s and this neighbors action. Furthermore, in the end when both of Victor's parents died due to drinking too much alcohol none of neighbors nor his uncle came to help him. It states from the same story that “...in 1976 left before sunrise, and all the Indians, the internal survivors, gathered to count their losses.” Even when Victor's parents died, nobody came to help but just thought as a daily act which has been going on for years. Being selfish each day in that year made many Indians died and that was because of the unity which this group was lacking. Through Alexie’s technique of showing the character’s actions he made this possible of the reader understanding the way he used each character and for each
In the beginning of this story it talks about how both Victor’s uncles were fighting against each other and in the neighborhood everyone was acting like it was no big deal. It states that “For hundreds of years, Indians were witnesses to crimes of an epic scale(Page 3).” This evidence in this story is showing the audience how lack of leadership both Victor was lacking as well as his whole neighborhood. When both Victor’s uncles were fighting, everyone was watching the fight including the character himself. Alexie uses this technique on how Native Americans were selfish. These Native Americans don’t care for one another and Alexie proves this through both Victor’s and this neighbors action. Furthermore, in the end when both of Victor's parents died due to drinking too much alcohol none of neighbors nor his uncle came to help him. It states from the same story that “...in 1976 left before sunrise, and all the Indians, the internal survivors, gathered to count their losses.” Even when Victor's parents died, nobody came to help but just thought as a daily act which has been going on for years. Being selfish each day in that year made many Indians died and that was because of the unity which this group was lacking. Through Alexie’s technique of showing the character’s actions he made this possible of the reader understanding the way he used each character and for each