Rangers F.C.

Introduction This is a civil action due to an incident involving a park ranger and UH graduate engineer and his friends at Hawaii State park. The main party being held liable in this civil suit is the UH graduate engineer. Defendant Michael Nishimoto (“Defendant” or “Michael”) argues that this is nothing more than an unfortunate campfire event that accidentally injured Lehua Ching (“Plaintiff” or “Mrs. Ching”), park ranger in her line of duty and he should not be held liable. Also, Defendant…

renowned for his works of this type. He often writes about the struggles of adolescent Native American boys, specifically their struggle trying to fit in and succeed in the world. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,” Alexie creates young Native American male characters with a lack of future prospects in order to criticize the negative social stigma associated with their cultural heritage. Alexie employs precise diction in…

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…

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…

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…

Justice for the 96 A cliché often heard in history classes is that “history is written by the victors.” This notion that the truth behind historical events is influenced by those left to record them is one that is emphasized on events in the more distant past. Events that occurred more recently are less often given this scrutiny, and many times the first version of the truth, the “winner’s” version, becomes widely accepted. Furthermore, because this truth is distributed by people in positions of…

Did you hear what happened? Did you hear the tail of Jack and his pins? It all started one day Jack went to go buy some milk and other groceries, because they were out. On his way to sell Bess he ran into a man carrying a big white sign that read “Wenger Out” in huge red letters. As he tried to avoid the man, for logical reason, but the man walked up to him “Here you look like you want this. Crack it open and see what inside.” the man said with small laugh and the end. Jack was so scared he…