Crazy Horse Dreams

Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses depicts the American romanticized view of the west. John Grady, emerging from a dilapidated family ventures out on a journey in pursuit of his dream of the cowboy lifestyle. Through out the novel there is a constant tension between John Grady destiny or fate and the nature of his dreams. Dreams keep the dreamer from reality and because they are unreal, they paralyze the dreamer’s reality. Nonetheless, they motivate his journey through Mexico. The different roles that his dreams play depict the different characters that John Grady assumes: the Texas teenager, the lover, the prisoner and the man. John Grady’s

     Traditionally, Native American Literature has been an oral genre. Although Native American Literature was the first American literature created, it has been the last to be recognized -and, to some extent, is still waiting for full recognition (www.usc.edu). With the Indian being forced to assimilate, their literature was forced to take on a written form. Although the traditional way of storytelling has changed, Native American Literature has survived. In it's written form, it is being shared with a larger population. Black Elk Speaks (Neihardt 1932) and The Lone Ranger and Tonto FistFight in Heaven (Alexie 1993) are two Native American works of

Within “The Lone Ranger and Tonto in Heaven”, Victor is the main character of the stories in the book. Though his character, Victor was the young teenager who grows up in the Indian Reservation, and he is observing his society and struggle of the Indian Identity, alcoholic behavior, and family relationships. Sherman Alexie is the author 's of the book, and he grows up in the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington. He also wrote books, poems, and movie scripts. In his writing, he is remembering his reader to understand the Native Indian history that was affected when the European explorer came to the Native American and controlled their land, heritage, tradition, and culture. Thought out stories, the author used to describe the life of the Indian society and the youth who is trying to believe themselves the drug and alcohol are the tradition of the Indian culture. From the author perspective, he questing his audience what it means to Indian to live in the 21st century without land, tradition, and culture. Overall the Stories, I thought “Indian Education” story is most important to me, and within the story I picked paragraph that have symbolic meaning and support toward the Indian culture and tradition.

1. I believe the narrator of the story is using third person omnicient. Third person omniecient is when the narator of a story is "all knowing". The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all the charachters in the story.

Some of the symbolism used by Alexie are subtle enough that the readers may have to read between the lines, but each symbol used represents a bigger issues within the Indian Reservations. The first use of symbolism that I noticed as I read this collection, can be found within the title The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. “The Lone Ranger”, I believe, refers to a Western television show that used stereotypes in order to portray Native Americans. More often than not, children want to be the cowboys when engaging in the game “Cowboys and Indians”, because it is always portrayed on television as being the winning side in any conflict that occurs between the two groups of people. A story that demonstrates a usage of typical Native American stereotypes is “Crazy Horse Dreams”, in which a woman is looking for the perfect “Crazy Horse Indian” to sleep with so that she may connect to her beloved Indian roots. However, due to the stereotypes she let herself believe she never really finds this type of Indian and instead settles for Victor who at one point tells her, in reference to wanting to connect to her Indian roots, that “You’re nothing important… You’re just another goddamned Indian like me” (pg. 41). As the stories progress we see the usage of stereotypes via the Indians and the shows they watch on television such as “The Brady Bunch”, and the lack of interest the Native Americans have in conforming to the Western

A collection of twenty-two stories narrated by different characters, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie illustrates the lives of modern Native Americans on the Spokane Indian Reservation and their hardships, which include despair, alcoholism, and poverty. Tribal members hold high hopes for the young who have extraordinary talent while doubting that they will achieve success and watching them succumb to alcoholism. These stories, while sad and gloomy, are told with humor and wit, making the stories bearable to the reader. The grabbing title came to Alexie in a dream, in which the Lone Ranger and Tonto got in a fight in heaven (McNally, 2001).

Have you ever sat somewhere and wondered why an author wrote something? Or what the meaning of the story is? The author Sherman Alexie is a known success to the Indian Culture. He was born in 1966, and into the Spokane Tribe in Washington. He writes solely on what happens to and in the lives of Indians. In one of his stories, “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven,” the main character is going through a quest for identity about the struggle between his Indian culture and his American life. The author names this short story because he wants to inform the reader of what life was for him being an Indian Man from his tribe. In the story, it talks significantly how he grew up and the way his life his now that he is all grown up.

Many characters in “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” show beneficial traits, physically and mentally from telling their stories. The author of this book, Sherman Alexie, portrays that the art of telling stories opened new avenues for native Indians to preserve or, more or less perceive their historical and cultural traditions. One of the main characters, Thomas Builds- The- Fire tells stories that had historical settings and viewpoints. They offered knowledge on tribal insights and how Indians have experienced change over the years. Victor, the other main character in the story also tells many stories about his past, but unlike Thomas Builds - the – fire, his stories are more bleak and realistic.

First of all, the point of view the story is written in is third person omniscient, as in the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of the characters. The author begins to use signs

Other characters within the story play a supporting position. From a third person point of view, the narrator voice changes depending on what the author wants to tell about the story. In this story, the narrator is informed of both the weaknesses and strengths of the characters. As a result, the third person point of view allows the narrator to relay the circumstances and events of the story instead of offering an interpretation or play with the language of the story.

The use of third person narration allowed for much more insight or depth into the characteristics and mannerisms of the personas in the novel as opposed what the reader would be limited to

Genre fiction or mainstream, any story or novel may require dream sequences. Dreams can show character traits vividly, foreshadow events in the story, and add color within the narrative. Within any story with psychic or supernatural content, dreams may even be shared. Lucid dreaming may allow a character to make fantastic discoveries. Yet powerfully written dream sequences are rare, and many otherwise brilliant writers slip into clichés and stylized, unmemorable or implausible passages.

My ultimate completely unrealistic dream, when I’m older, is too run a horse rescue that hires homeless and military veterans. In the equestrian world, there are too many horses that get abandoned or forgotten just because they are too old or have small injuries that do require meds or other expensive treatments or horses that stop winning shows so often these horses are just forgotten sometimes even put down because they can’t win or they lose value. The rescue would take in a maximum of 30 horses at a time we would nurse the horses back to health then if they can be resold or retrained and given another purpose in life make that happen if they need a place to live out their days then they will have beautiful green pastures and a warm stall

First person narration limits the standpoint of the story. Since first person narrative only focuses on one character, the characterization of others are disregarded. For instance, Prince relates a story about his master’s daughter and talked about how he “often [gets] drunk, and then he would get in a fury with his daughter, and beat her till she was not fit to be seen” (13). The experience of the daughter is only seen through the observations of Prince. Her description of her own experiences is not fully discussed. Moreover, the readers are also not presented about what the other

The story is told by a limited third person narrator which is bound to the main character Mike. This influences the story because; the reader is only able to see the thoughts and actions from Mike’s point of view. Sometimes Mike’s actions and thoughts are relayed directly: “he switched on the garden lights and, looking out at the new deck where last summer they’d held barbecues.” And sometimes his actions and thoughts are flashbacks: