Tonto

Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg, is set in World War II, when Jewish concentration camps were formed. At the beginning of Schindler's List you are unable to tell if Oskar Schindler is kind, you think this because he buys clothes from the black markets and goes out drinking with all the German soldier’s to form a working friendship. Which helps Oskar to get Jewish people working for him in his newly form “Pots ‘n’ Pans” business, with a Jewish accountant running the accounts side…

In Sherman Alexie’s “The Approximate Size of my Favorite Tumour”, the author uses humour to illustrate allusions of stereotypes in regards to the Indigenous people, based on ideology in North American society. Alexie uses metaphoric imagery to connect the main character coming to terms with his cancer diagnosis, and to magnify how behaviours caused by stereotypes can be detrimental to a person’s self-worth or identity. The story is told in first person narrative, which is being expressed by the…

Even where Junior once felt like he was safe from isolation, it still seems to find him in the end. During Junior's time at reardon he faces racists jokes and teachers that treat him differently because of his race. Comments such as “Chief” and “Tonto” (Alexie 64) were popular among the group of guys who…

discrimination of his people through various shifts of mood. His manipulation of mood is largely evident through the third person perspectives of Victor, his father, and the Indian reservation community. Victor’s narrative in “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” depicts the impoverished mood to develop the perspective of a teenager. Alexie…

“carries the weight of five centuries of colonization, retelling the American Indian struggle to survive, painting a clear, compelling, and often painful portrait of modern Indian life” (Cline 197). Alexie exactly did that on his book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, particularly the short story Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock. He implied his view of life and values as American Indian through…

"This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" is from his collection of short stories, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight into Heaven. "This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" is about a young Indian man named Victor who not only recently lost his job but has also found out about his father's death in Phoenix, Arizona. Victor is not very close to his father because he left when Victor was relatively young and did not try to keep their relationship steady. However, Victor still has a…

A Stagecoach was set to leave Tonto, New Mexico for a distant settlement in Lordsburg, with a diverse set of passengers on board. Dallas (Claire Trevor) is a woman with a scandalous past who has been driven out of town by the Stuck up ladies of the community. Lucy Mallory (Louise Platt)…

reveal subconscious biases that affect oppressed peoples views of themselves and their culture; but they must endure this in order to adapt to the prevalent culture they are surrounded by. This can be seen in Sherman Alexie’s novel, The Lone Ranger and Tonto…

In Diary of a Part-Time Indian the main character, Arnold uses drawn cartoons to express his view of the world. In a way, it is how Arnold best speaks to the world. He draws cartoons not only for fun, but also to let his voice be heard. Cartoons allow him to tell the world his hopes and dreams as well as his fears and things he hates. The two most pertinent examples of this in my opinion, come in the form of the cartoons Arnold draws when he starts with Reardan, and the almost sacrilegious comic…

Sherman Alexie achieved many things and received many award such as the Pen/Hemingway Award for Best first book of fiction for his story collection “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven “ in 1993 (The Famous People). Alexie also won the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award. Alexie was also interviewed by Oprah herself on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Sherman Alexie has won the World Heavyweight Poetry Championship…