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Sherman Alexie’s novel Flight is narrated by Zits, a fifteen-year-old half-Indian, half-Irish boy who travels through time and the bodies of distinct characters after an attempt to shoot people at a bank in redemption to his late mother and runaway father. Alexie’s novel demonstrates the theme of identity, which is, according to Zack, the self-categorization of a person in connection with race, ethnicity, or gender. One can employ aspects of theoretical explanations from Thinking About Race by…

Sherman Alexie outlines the struggles of several characters in his novel The Toughest Indian in the World. Many of his protagonists suffer from the same quandary related to their Indian heritage, and all of them go to great and unexpected lengths to cure the dissatisfaction they feel with certain aspects of their lives. The narrator Alexie writes about in his short story by the same name, “The Toughest Indian in the World,” encounters an Indian hitchhiker with whom he attempts to combat the…

What is your best accomplishment? In Sherman Alexie’s story “What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” Jackson is the main character in this story who is static and the protagonist. The story is in first-person because it comes from his point of view. Jackson strives to overcome his alcoholism to achieve his goal. He comes across people with similar difficulties and learns how they have given up their goals which encourages him to pursue his. Jackson is a sympathetic character who struggles with an internal…

Sherman Alexie was born on October 7, 1966 on the Spokane reservation in Willpinit, Washington. He is the author of several novels that have won him various awards. He is a director, a performer and screenwriter. Indian killer was Sherman’s second novel and was published in 1996. Alexie lives with his wife and son in Seattle Washington. Indian Killer is the story of John Smith, a twenty seven year old Native American man who at birth, was adopted by a white couple. Smith’s obvious mental illness…

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…

Sherman Alexie’s short story “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” follows a young Native American man in Seattle. It starts late at night with the narrator walking to a 7-11. When he enters, it is obvious that the cashier is visibly uncomfortable because of the narrator’s appearance. The look given to him reminds the narrator of his white ex-girlfriend, leading to flashbacks of their past fights. After one of their arguments, he dreamed that he and his girlfriend were a minor war…

In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, a young boy named Arnold realizes that he needs to leave the reservation to fully succeed. When he gets to the small town of Reardan, it’s difficult at first, but he ends up in a more supportive and friendly environment. Throughout the book, Arnold faces many hardships, but he manages to get through them. Although Arnold faces racism at Reardan, and poverty and depression on the rez, he uses his sense of humor, romanticism, and…

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…

“Superman and Me”, by Sherman Alexie, is a brilliant autobiography. The essay is about how Alexie learned to read from a Superman comic book at the young age of three. He was a Spokane Indian boy living with his family on the Spokane Indian reservation in Washington state. The essay consists of the hardship that Indian people went through and how they lived. Not only how all the Indians in his area lived but especially his own family. His family was poor, but his parents always seemed to have a…

Myles Hypse February 23rd, 2017 English 1B 3:30-4:50pm Victor & Thomas The short story “This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” by writer Sherman Alexie tells the tale of Victor, a young native american, and Thomas Builds-The-Fire, his alienated partner as they take a journey to Phoenix, Arizona to claim his father's savings account, along with bringing back his deceased father's ashes to the reservation. Victor and Thomas are foils of each other; Victor is a Native American living in…