The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Sherman Alexie’s collection, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, captures many different insights into human nature through life on a Native American Reservation. Originally published in 1993, Alexie writes these twenty-one fictional short stories with the artifice of one who has experienced such scenarios first-hand. Throughout these stories, there are many recurring motifs. While love, hate, family, poverty, and personal struggle are all prominent, there is a theme that binds the

“It hurts to lose any of them [to alcoholism] because Indians kind of see ballplayers as saviors” (52). In The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven, by Sherman Alexie, alcoholism takes on a salient -- yet disastrous -- role in regards to the success of Native Americans. In the short story “A Train Is An Order of Occurrence Designed to Lead to Some Result,” Samuel Builds-the-Fire, the first in his community to successfully leave the reservation and move to a city named Spokane, struggles with

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is about self-fulfilling prophecy. While this book has a multiple themes, I think this one is especially impactful to the characters it affects and the stories formed because of it. Self-fulfilling prophecy, normally viewed in a positive light, is reflected in a negative manner through these stories and characters. Self-fulfilling prophecy, as shown through this book, is the negative expectations that all outside white people have towards the Indians

In the short stories “A Drug Called Tradition,” “The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor,” and “The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore” collected in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, author Sherman Alexie uses humor to reflect the life on the Spokane Reservation. In “A Drug Called Tradition,” the story starts with a joke by having Thomas sit down inside a refrigerator in response to Junior’s comment as to why the refrigerator is empty. The Indians are

Native American Oppression in Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Indian Killer Sherman Joseph Alexie was born on October 7, 1966. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now resides in Seattle, Washington. Sherman Alexie was asked in an interview, “When did you start writing?” and his answer was simple, “I started writing because I kept fainting in human anatomy class and needed a career change. The only class that fit where the human anatomy class had been

discrimination because of his background. People like him who came from extreme poverty are treated like animals because of the caste system that people in India follows as some form of tradition. On the other hand, Victor, from The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight From Heaven by Sherman Alexie, he witnesses the tragic lifestyle of native americans in the reservation and after leaving the reservation, he also experienced discrimination because of the stereotypes against the native americans. The marginalization

think that racism still exist. Looking at the fiction stories and novels that we have red so far that in some ways talk about individuals who live in raciest or unequal society. First of all, there is the short story titled "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" that is written by the author Sherman Alexie that talks about a native American Indian, the main character, whose name was not mentioned in the story and lives in Spoken, Washington. This story was written using the first person

In “Battle Royal”, “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, and “The Things They Carried”, all three authors focus on the actions of the lead characters, and how the past reflects on their behavior and decisions in the present. These three stories have several things in common: The protagonists are haunted by someone or something, which causes their struggle with their self-identity. To be specific, the main characters are constantly troubled by a close one that they lost, and also by personal

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

Born and raised on an Indian reservation in Washington state, Sherman Alexie is a writer best known for his fictional stories; The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Although from a poor family, Alexie always had access to books and learned to read from a young age. Alexie expresses his struggle with education while growing up and becoming a writer in a community where most kids have trouble even reading. Alexie shows his audience, the educators of marginalized and deprived students, that