Rogers' Rangers

In “Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” the main character faces many challenges living in Seattle. He is trying to live a normal life as an American but the community all seems to have a problem or they are afraid of him. He was forced to be the bad person around the area only because he was from a different ethnic background. Why should that matter? In this story stereotype and racism is big and people has to see how that can only affect an individual deeply. In the first paragraph of the

In Sherman Alexie’s, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven the author grabs the attention of the reader when he focuses on moments of racism and discrimination of Indian characters, these situations can be applicable to modern day American society. In the collection, Alexie depicts the life of several Indian’s lives, living on the Spokane Indian reservation many of whom face discrimination on a daily basis. The ideas behind the bigotry in the assortment of stories are backed by Alexie’s

hundred years has passed and the two populations may not be chasing one another down on horseback, a fruitful relationship still does not exist. This poor relationship is a focal point of Sherman Alexie, a Spokane tribe member, in his story, “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.” Through the interactions and events of his Native-American character, Victor, Alexie shows the isolation of Native-Americans due to this tension that underlies the relationship between Native-Americans and mainstream

Sherman Alexie is an American writer and poet and his literary works focus mostly on discrimination that Indians face. In most of his work, he criticizes white Americans for taking away land from the Indians and for ill-treating them. Sherman Alexie has a unique way of putting across his thoughts. He is very frank, has a wit that is quick and a dark sense of humor .He does not hesitate to write about the harsh and gruesome reality of the lives of Indians at reservations. He believes that “The real

Sherman Alexie may write boring and uninteresting characters, but the dreams in Reservation Blues are stellar. The dreams help the reader understand and connect what he is trying to write. With all the sentences in his book that say some version of “the horses screamed” and all the dreams about the cavalrymen killing horses and Indians, it is not hard to make the connections Alexie is trying to make. The horses are the Indians, and they are being killed by the white man. This also goes hand in hand

was still waiting for Crazy Horse” (p.40). Alexie is trying to show how his enemy’s ideas are penetrating through the modern Indians minds. It gives a sense of how the waitress is caught up with the new culture, where she gets a wishful thinking that the men she meets will miraculously be Crazy Horse. Yet, Victor knows the reality of it. It’s not going to happen. I on the other hand, am trapped between two cultures. My perspectives and beliefs are kind of different compared to my relatives because

In “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” Sherman Alexie included Jim Thorpe in his short story to emphasize Thorpe because Thorpe ran track and Sherman is trying to make a point in how fast Thomas and Victor was running. Jim Thorpe also known as James Francis Thorpe is from an Indian Territory known as the Sac and Fox. In the years Jim Thorpe was growing up, no one expected an indian to become something of themselves, but no one would have ever of thought that an indian can achieve in

Amazing musician, Lou Reed, stated, “there’s a little bit of magic in everything and then some loss to even things out”. This quote begins the 20th Anniversary edition of Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. This collection of short stories accent life on the Spokane Indian Reservation. The author, Sherman Alexie, grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and uses his experiences as ammunition to write brilliant and unexpecting stories. He has been described as having “one

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

storytelling is the same as imagination in that it again is a debatable topic. Some people think it is useful and entertaining, while some people believe otherwise and think it is ignorant and a waste of time. But to Sherman Alexie author of, “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, “ it was much more than that. It was perhaps more like a lifestyle or something that has been passed down for centuries like Thomas Builds-The-Fire and his family. Imagination creates storytellers who then tell stories