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In Sherman Alexie’s collection titled The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, many characters in this collection of stories intellectually benefit one another from telling their own stories. Native Americans can retain their history and cultural customs this way. For instance, Thomas Builds-the-Fire enjoys telling stories that are often surreal and have historical and natural contexts. His stories give his listeners observation of Native American history and how their experience had…

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie is about two boys, Thomas and Victor, who live on a reservation. Both of Thomas’s parents died when he was a baby in a house party. Thomas got thrown out of a window and Victor's dad caught him and saved his life. When Thomas and Victor were friends when they were young, but grew apart as they grew up. When Victor was young his dad left him and his mom and moved to Arizona. Victor never saw him again. Although Victor and Thomas grew…

The novel The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie showcases the Native American people of the Spokane reservation in Eastern Washington that have been plagued with poverty for generations. Alexie writes stories about the daily struggles of the people on the reservation and how they strive to make it out of the poverty by becoming modern warriors. Three common issues setback the Natives of the reservation and their culture influences this repetitive cycle of triumph and…

Bianca Hill Indigenous Identities HON 2973-007 Professor Amanda Minks 17 September 2015 Stereotyping Indians in Smoke Signals Sherman Alexie’s award winning book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a collection of short stories in which he tells stories of Indians, mainly on the Spokane reservation. These stories are set in contemporary times, but the characters still struggle with the issues that have long affected Native peoples, like poverty, abandonment, and alcoholism. The…

audience to understand. Sherman Alexie helps his broad audience realize the difficult and complex struggles of Native Americans on the reservation by justifying each story with varying degrees of humor. Alexie accomplishes this in, “The Lone Ranger and Tonto FistFight in Heaven”, a collection of short stories displaying the struggles and difficulties of Native Americans on the reservation. By analyzing the different perspectives of the characters, the level of power they have, and how…

In Sherman Alexie’s works “Smoke Signals” and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven and Flight, all demonstrate how a parents’ abandonment can cause a destructive aftermath on their child. The main characters in each story blame their fathers for all the tribulations that they had to go through in their lives. Only the truth of their fathers’ abandonment will allow them to accept their anger and grief and give them the capability to move on with their lives. In the story Flight, Zits’…

have similar experiences or pasts, what makes them unique is how they let what happened to them shape their beliefs and view of the world. In his short stories “The Drug Called Tradition” and “Crazy Horse Dreams” within the novel The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven, Alexie explores the idea of how a person's past influences them. Victor, the narrator in both short stories, is a Spokane Indian living on the Spokane reservation. Throughout the novel, readers are shown how Victor’s…

The book, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, by Sherman Alexie is about a native tribe who go through a lot of difficult things but somehow manage to get through it all. They fight through it all and they preserve their culture. To them, family is the most important as well as their traditions. This book has a lot of interesting topics, such as, how spirituality plays an important role in the novel. They also explain how many of them have been destroyed by drinking and doing drugs at…

bit of tribal culture they have left. Their culture, however, has been radically changed by the modern American culture. Sherman Alexie perfectly portrays this oppression and the plight of the Native American in Indian Killer and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Through the setting, plot structure, and characterization, Alexie uses both books to show the struggle that a modern Native American faces. “As a Native American… Sherman Alexie knows how difficult it is for someone to…

Alexie is currently working on Fire with Fire and The Magic and Tragic Year of My Broken Thumb, sequels to The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Anonymous 35). Alexie lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife Diane, who is of Hidatsa, Ho Chunk, and Pottawatomi descent, and two sons (Chadwyck-Healey 6; Cline…