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Journal Eight Sherman 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…

The character Thomas Builds-the-Fire in the book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven tells many different stories of the hardships each Indian on the reservation deals with, and of the how the people on the reservation can handle these hardships. The stories he uses in this book are mostly fictional, but they tell stories in a different way than how your mind actually puts it. He adds a little more magic in his stories to make them sound believable. It is through Thomas’ stories that…

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Indian Killer are centered on the lives of Native Americans. Whether on or off the reservation, these characters face many challenges. However, no challenge is as great as their struggle for an identity in modern America. This is made apparent in each character’s actions, the stereotypes that are forced upon them, and the author’s use of symbolism. First, each character in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Indian Killer deal with…

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 and feels haunted by his past. Sherman Alexie characterizes the narrator with point of view—the narrator’s perception of others and their own onto his perception of self, character—through the narrator’s identity as a Native American…

In The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie shows how many young Native Americans struggle to find their personal identity in relation White America and their own disappearing culture. Young Native American’s are given a choice between a dominant culture that ridicules and stereotypes them, and their rapidly disappearing culture that they cannot relate to. The struggle between these two cultures leaves them confused and unsure with themselves. When young Native American’s…

He felt and projected his feeling for every word. R & B artist Ledisi poured her heart and soul into “Sleepless Nights.” She was so happy with her performance and the reaction from the crowd, she danced, jumped and twirled off the stage. Keb ' Mo ' and Roodney Crowell hammered “Wake Up Little…