The Lone Ranger

that was made was both the narrator and Alexie both came basketball stars at their schools. As mentioned, there are some parallels between Alexie’s life and the narrator in the story. “Indian Education” was a one of the many short stories from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, released in 1993. Alexie, with having published over two hundred poems, short stories, books, and translations, has given Native Americans someone to look up to. He tells his stories that help see into the…

actors ( Emma Stone played a Chinese-Hawaiian character named Allison Ng in Cameron Crowe’s critically derided Aloha). Obviously, Asian-Americans are not the only victims of Hollywood’s continuing penchant for whitewashing. Films like “Pan” and “The Lone Ranger” featured white actors playing Native Americans, while “Gods of Egypt” and “Exodus: Gods and Kings” continue the long tradition of Caucasians playing Egyptians. As…

In “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven” Alexie, refers himself to Victor, the little boy in the poem. He discusses the hurricanes that happen at the Spokane Indian Reservation at the most unexpected times; the hurricanes are incidents that occur. Victor…

1.Values A.A value is an enduring belief. Many of our most basic beliefs are values. They tend to be somewhat broad and abstract. Most people only have a few dozen values. B.Values are the key components in most societies and these values can differ from other different cultures. Most values are anchors that have been created to regulate certain behaviors that can seem to be unsavory or morally wrong. Other values can be passed on through generations of certain beliefs in…

The Italian inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, made the radio and was able to send and receive radio signals in nineteen sixteen. Radios had become an important technological advances that positively affected society (Taylor. Pg.5). The radio impacted many lives in the past and today. The greatest impact radios had in life was during the Great Depression. Without radios, the United States would have been socially and economically behind because of the Great Depression in the late nineteen twenties and…

So often when we thought of the west as a young child and even as a young adult there may been scene in our mind that represented the American West. Whether this was from Marty McFly’s adventure to the western town of Hill Vally in 1885 or the Lone Ranger and his Indian partner Tonto, we all are mesmerized by Hollywood’s version of what the American West is. This is not to say that the screenwriter is not accurate, however there is quite a lot of “artistic freedom” that is allowed in this…

The world of popular culture has greatly evolved throughout history in that various innovations have allowed for the incorporation of new ideas and phenomena into society. From the creation of the first motion pictures to the progression of professional sports, America has seen magnificent transformations in the field of entertainment. Such elements of culture have been especially important when the nation is struggling, much like it was during the Great Depression of the 1930’s. It was at this…

The Narrative Power of Native American Storytelling The dramatic-comedy Smoke Signals, a brilliant screenplay written by Sherman Alexie in 1998 and directed by Chris Eyre, inspired by Alexie 's book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven which details Native American life. Alexie has “...always been fascinated with dreams and stories and flashing forward and flashing back and playing with conventions of time…”, as he stated in “Sending Cinematic Smoke Signals an Interview with Sherman…

“Indian Education” by Sherman Alexie is a short story that really captures whomever reads it. The structure of the short story is quite a unique one. I have never seen a story told this way, which is one of the reasons it compelled me to read it. It’s told as episodes, from first grade all the way to postscript: class reunion. Each episode tells the reader more about the narrator’s Indian background and how each important event in life and education that happened that year, shaped his identity.…

I conducted my in-person interview with my father, David, who is 64 years old. He was born in 1951. He grew up in the little town of Racine, Wisconsin. My father refers to Racine as being more decent than Santa Monica, California. He lived there for five to ten years upon finishing college, and he felt that the people there were superficial. Furthermore, my father was the middle child, and he has two brothers. While being interviewed, he informed me that his family was customarily exposed…