The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.” - Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. In Sherman Alexie’s collection of short stories, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, we read stories of Native American struggles for survival in an American society designed to keep Native Americans locked in the cycle of intergenerational trauma. Alexie illustrates the importance of rejecting intergenerational trauma as a method of survival, by isolating the two main causes intergenerational

In The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie utilizes several stories to highlight the economic vulnerability of Native Americans in the outside world. On one hand, a considerable number of Native Americans despise the reservation and attempt to escape in order to achieve self-actualization. On the other hand, many of the people who are fortunate enough to escape the reservation, find themselves not fitting in. Thus forcing them to return to the only place where they feel that

Women in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie A warrior is recognized as sonmeone who battles for his/her beliefs. Even after receiving mortal wounds many times, such a person never leaves the battlefield. However, the inspiring and metaphorical idea of a warrior can certainly extend beyond the actual battlefield, and into the universal battle of living life. A woman must face this world like a warrior. She must endure the pain of a past that oppressed her, the adversity

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

years America has changed dramatically, and with that, the people have changed. What is considered mainstream now is different from 10, 20, 30, even 100s of years ago. Eventually everything evolves. Sherman Alexie’s short story “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” tells the story of a Native American living in current day America. It explains the struggles he faces living in a period that his group of people haven’t moved on too. Many Native Americans still live in their reservation and stay

morality in fiction, historical fiction, or anything related to such topics. Consequently, most books read in popular culture have a lesson; novels are a form of education. An example of this has been shown through Sherman Alexie’s Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. In this novel, he attempts to shed light on the struggles Native American people, specifically on the Spokane Reservation, withstand through multiple stories and perspectives. Some novels, if their perspective of truth has not been

The author, Sherman Alexie, is a Native American novelist, born on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. In his short story, “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,” Alexie makes the argument that Native Americans are being negatively portrayed, mistreated and stereotyped in our country and by our government. Alexie uses a character born in the same Reservation in Washington, giving him more credibility for the arguments he makes, through the character. The audience Alexie

Essay 1 In Sherman Alexie’s novel The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven shows the struggles of daily Native American life, which is shown through the point of view of male character. All though out the book the following three questions appear: ‘What does it mean to live as an Indian in this time? What does it mean to be an Indian man? and What does it mean to live on an Indian reservation?’ Alexie uses literary devices such as point of view, imagery, characterization to make his point that

Alexie’s Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. In this novel, he attempts to shed light of the struggles Native American people, specifically on the Spokane Reservation, withstand through multiple stories and perspectives. Some novels, if their perspective of truth is not taken into account, still affect people in their every day

People often believe many of the stereotypes that come with the Indian culture. In Sherman Alexie’s, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, alcoholism among the Native American characters is very prevalent. It could be argued that the Native Americans in the story drink alcohol because of the stereotype that it’s part of their culture. I contend that they drink as an approach to cope with their many life hardships. The character Victor presented in some of the short stories goes through