The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight

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Victor’s father and the narrator of “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” are similar in a way that Victor’s father don’t know how to handle the relationship with his family, and the narrator don’t know how to handle the relationship with his girlfriend. In Victor’s father story after he is got out of the prison, he starts to fight with his wife constantly, also the dependent on alcohol leads him hard to open up to his family. At the“The Lone Range and Tonoto Fistfight in Heaven” the narrator don’t know how to handle the relationship between his girlfriend because of the difference of their skin color.Just like what the crazy dream that the narrator always had made him think the society don’t allow the white and the black be together;so

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