Tonto Fistfight In Heaven

The Glass Castle represents the hope that is lost, and how it shatters like glass, like how the Walls family finds hope, but eventually lost it and went back to their old habits of just barely scraping by.

The Glass Jar illustrates the journey of a young boy from childhood innocence to maturity, knowledge and experience. The poem conveys the potential and possibilities of a

Windows represent a point of view, a passage, or sometimes a glimpse into the soul. By a darkened window in the skyscraper, we grasp the idea that the falling girl is losing the vision of her dream. As opposed to this story, “The Falling Girl”, what if the characters were not pulling her into the skyscraper but rather the characters from the party were reaching their hands out to her to embrace her? What if the falling girl was blind and could not hear the voices calling out to pull her from her destiny? What if instead of “letting herself go” she carefully plotted the safest and surest route to the party? The symbols that were used in “The Falling Girl” brought about a final thud at the end of the story, however, the symbols could have brought about a grand entrance through an illuminated announced entrance. As symbols can be ambiguous, depending on their usage, the symbols in our journey to our self- actualization and manifestation of dreams can be ambiguous except for the impact and meaning we’ve endowed them

Within the first few lines of The Glass Roses, the setting is established as a cold and inhospitable environment. The bitter Canadian landscape is often battered by howling winds and enveloped by a thick layer of snow. This harsh physical landscape closely mirrors Stephen’s perception of the icy-cold stoics he works with. These men, who are all well-versed lumbermen, have “humped backs and ox-like shoulders”, the “huskiest and most solemn” of which is Stephen’s own father. These characteristics starkly contrast Stephen’s own “willowy fifteen-year-old body”. “Sometimes he wondered if he suffered from a wasting disease. He almost hoped that this was so, for then his weakness would be thought less shameful”. At the outset of this short story,

The way we live defines us, tradition defines us. Tradition is a very important thing. It is something that spans many generations and is a part of one's identity. Tradition can define us. Therefore when tradition is forcibly taken away it can hurt a lot of people and generations. An example of a people who have had many of their traditions suppressed and taken away are the original inhabitants of the Americas. Their tradition was taken from them and they were either killed or forced into following a new tradition which erasing all of their identity. The effect this has on the newer generation is bad because they will feel like a part of them is missing because their tradition was taken and it can cause a trauma called generational trauma. The book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in heaven, focuses on a Native American named Victor in order to describe how generational trauma causes a weakening of tradition because it becomes replaced with alcohol and isolation. In addition, Alexie presents how a rekindling of old traditions is a way out of this harmful circle.

The Glass Castle is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls and it tells a story the life of Jeannette Walls and her family. Towards the beginning of the novel, the family made a pitstop at a casino in Las Vegas where the parents decided to gamble hoping they will earn extra cash. On their way home, the doors flew open, and Jeannette suddenly falls out of the car and rolls down a hill after the car took a sharp turn. The accident left her with a blood nose, multiple scrapes, and pebbles stuck on her skin. After a long wait, she began to panic that her parents decided to desert her. Eventually the car returned, and Jeannette accuses her family for leaving her behind and even refuses to hug her dad. This occurrence ends with her family calling her

In Jeannette Walls's, The Glass Castle, we learn of a family's struggles and Jeannette's life growing up as she traveled across the country under unbelievable circumstances. Most of the time, Jeannette, Brian, and Lori, were left to take care of their mom and alcoholic father, including their baby sister Maureen, and lastly each other. Through these sibling's many hardships, they face many challenges moving and constantly trying to control their father’s alcoholic temper. For centuries many families have fell victims to alcohol abuse leaving them scarred and traumatized. In 2012 over 100,000 cases of crime have gone under the category of drunk driving .

The Glass Castle is great example of imagery and metaphor. In the story, Jeannette's father regularly tells his kids that he will construct them a house made entirely of glass where they will all live a happy life together. Excited about this pipe dream, Jeannette and her brother begin to dig the foundation for the castle in their backyard when the family moves to Welch. But when the family doesn't have enough money to be able to pay for their trash to be collected, her dad tells them to start dumping the garbage into the hole they had just worked so hard to dig. The imagery of the hole filling with garbage alludes to the metaphor for how the family will never really be financially secure and happy if they keep relying on Rex’s empty

Alcoholism severely changes the lives of the people it affects. By stripping away the few choices the natives once had, the men no longer have any way to go. With this in mind, this photo looks more at the struggles of an individual with alcoholism. The bottle represents alcoholism’s tendency to trap its victims. In Reservation Blues, the men are said to be trapped on the reservation by the beer they indulge themselves in. Therefore, the man is trapped within the bottle and without a means of escape. The duality of the symbol comes into play when one looks at him as a reflection on the bottle or as a being inside the bottle. When a reflection, he is trapped in the shape of the bottle where he navigates a two dimensional world trying to find

In the Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls an impoverished girl writes in her memoir portraying her deeply dysfunctional family and coming of age. Throughout the novel she puts in her perspective and utilization of rhetorical devices including a nonchalant and optimistic tone, symbols, themes, and a story structure. Jeannette specifically creates settings of her memories with imagery. As her family is always “skedaddling” the new “homes” are set to display their struggle and current situation. This imagery allows the reader to sympathize.

Subsequently, Jeannette Walls uses three initial themes to effectively convey her message to her readers. The first theme being the idea that families have the tendency to let each other down at some point. After a typical day of Rex vanishing from the house, Walls blantly states “I waited on the front steps until bedtime, but he never came home” (Walls 132). While this event alone may seem like a huge deal, Rex’s actions that night spoke volumes. Jeannette had asked for her dad to stop drinking for her birthday and, for a while, he had succeeded.

Imagine a world without hope, diversity, uniqueness, heroes and role models. Everybody would have the same height, shape, voice, skin color, eye color, hair color, clothes, job, interests and so on. They would most likely live in the same type of home, own the same things, speak the same language and eat the same food. If a person tried to be unique, the society would try to drag that person down to society’s hopeless status. Personally, I couldn’t stand a minute in a world like that. Unfortunately, worlds like these exist. In Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven, Alexie writes about a typical Indian reservation in the United States without hope, diversity, uniqueness, heroes and role models. A large

In his collection of short stories titled The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie tells two dozen tales that depict the lives and thoughts that come from living on a Native American reservation. Many of the stories revolve around characters Victor and Thomas. They are two young Native American males that are stylistically opposite forces. They serve as foils to each other and often balance out each other in many stories in the collection. The collection itself is difficult to find a narrative through-line.

As we get into the story we are given a brief glimpse into the main character Seymour Glass and what he displays a multiple different behaviors with different characters. Salinger expresses the use of As the story progresses, Salinger uses conflict, characterization, and symbolism to demonstrate how a traumatic experience, like going to war can change a person’s perception. As the short story progresses

Post-Colonialism has been somewhat beneficial to the Native Americans in recent years. Post-Colonialism is the political or cultural condition of a former colony. Obviously, when discussing Post-Colonialism in North America it’s mostly going to be about the founding of the continent and its original thirteen colonies. Throughout the years after the colonization of North America, the Native Americans haven’t really had the best outcome, especially when it comes to the way that they are treated. They haven’t been treated with respect when it comes to being in the film industry, politics, or even just living life day to day as an average person. Sherman Alexie’s “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” and “Postcards to Columbus” have