Rogers' Rangers

In Sherman Alexie’s collection of short stories that forms his book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven through his works of fiction he lets the reader in to a world that for many Native American including himself is a devastations reality that has been going on for so long that it has just become a part of everyday life for these people who call the Native American reservations of the United state home. On average 4 in 5 American Indian and Alaska Native women have experienced violence

He writes about what the soldiers carry in their bags, but he gives it a deeper meaning. He writes about the soldier’s life, all the emotional baggage they carry with leaving their loved ones and the pain of losing a fellow soldier. In “The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven” by Sherman Alexie, Victor goes through different encounters where he experiences racism. He ends up going back to his reservation and getting a job. These two stories are similar through the freight, “any load or burden”

There Tonto stands, a brave Indian warrior, cloaked in a leather vest and pants, with a face painted white, a dead bird on his head, and two swords by his side. Tonto perfectly portrays the typical Hollywood Indian. In Sherman Alexie’s novel Reservation Blues, the Indians in no way portray the stereotypical Indian. Alexie acknowledges and elucidates this major misconception. He shows the hardships of an Indian band, Coyote Springs, struggling to make a living in the music industry, along with all

LeAnne Howe made this book to tell the story of American Indians who fought for their freedom and land from the white men. She featured moments of her life in an effort to include an insight to show that all American Indians, even now, are affected by the allotment of the American Indians. LeAnne Howe even dedicated Miko Kings to “all the American Indians who’ve played the game.” Baseball was a sport that the Indians had been playing for years as a way to pass time and connect the tribes (48) (LeAnne

Sherman Alexie’s book, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, focuses on life in Indian reservations and modern problems that Native Americans still face today. Through the characters that Alexie creates the reader sees how poorly the Native American communities are facing today and how Native Americans are trapped no matter where they go. One of the literary theories that allow us, as readers, to see how these problems arise is Postcolonialism. Postcolonialism is a literary theory that focuses

hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” Unfortunately Native Americans have deep roots with racism and oppression during the last 500 years. “In The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven,” Sherman Alexie tries to show racism in many ways in multiple of his short stories. These stories, engage our history from a Native American viewpoint. Many Native Americans were brutally forced out of their homes

How culture affects our views Today’s culture changes how we behave and act. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings are excellent examples of this. For example, in The Lone Ranger the narrator is stopped by the police as they said “You’re making people nervous. You don’t fit the profile of the neighborhood." (Alexie). Like the narrator in The Lone Ranger both stores how someone’s culture affects the way they act and think. Our culture changes how we

Out of all of the short stories in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (TLR), none of them are as bizarre as “Distances”. A story set in a post-apocalyptic world where all the other races died in a flood while the Native Americans kept refuge on top of the mountains. The setting itself is rather strange for casual readers as it opens up a new perspective to the idea of a world being in turmoil. As readers and consumers of media we are used to seeing only a selected few survive in this kind

Sherman Alexie is an author that writes about Indians, not only in this story but in his other stories and books. It may seem that having only one type of major character limits the ability to have a broad range of story lines. In “What you Pawn I will Redeem” Alexie is able to show that having one type of character does not limit the use of the other elements of fiction. With proper use of irony, point of view, tone, and symbolism Alexie took one major character and turns him into many. Given

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