The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

The next idea that Sherman Alexie answers is what is like to be an Indian Man in the short story “An Indian Education” it seems as if to be an Indian man is to be caught between two worlds and sometimes picking one over the other. For example, the passage on page 176 states the following: “But on the day I leaned through the basement window of the HUD house and kissed the white girl, I felt the good-byes I was saying to my entire tribe” (176). For the narrator of that section he felt like had to

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 which is

In Jacqueline L. McGrath’s article, she mainly evaluates Sherman Alexie's attempt to negotiate the traditions and innovations that are seemingly incompatible in her fiction, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. More specifically, McGrath challenges the notion that Sherman Alexie's fiction can be considered as a folklore. She argues that the work is not folklore, as it is widely considered among other folklorists;instead, the fiction is a body of work that is much more complicated, which

The texts Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, as well as Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven all ask us to consider the relationship between rhetoric and identity. When thinking about identity it depends on the person. I would define identity as the key characteristics about each of us that we define ourselves by. How we want to be seen by others, and how we think others see us. What parts of ourselves we choose to keep private and what parts

Throughout “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” the theme of resilience is deliberately presented. Native Americans past and present continue to face stifling issues such as racism, alcoholism, isolation and suicide. Sherman Alexie makes it his obligation in his stories and poems to show Native American resiliency through humor. By using his characters to show resiliency through humor Alexie presents humor as an integral part of Native American survival. In Sherman Alexie’s best

The short story "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" lets us know that Sherman Alexie is a Native American poet, novelist, and performer. Sherman Alexie 's key characteristics to his writing are irony and dark humor. Sherman Alexie’s main focus in his writing is his experience as a Native American. “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” is a short story that talks about his relationship with a white woman. There is also a lot of contrast between the way Native Americans are seen

sophisticated use of humor unsettles conventional ways of thinking and helps brain growth, which allows Indian characters to connect to their heritage in ways and forces non-Indian readers to reconsider their ideas on them. “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” by Sherman Alexie is a humorously told, short story detailing the struggle of an American Indian who deals with racism in his life by fighting back with ironic humor. He moves from the reservation where he was born to Seattle, where

Most of Alexie’s writing reflects life on the reservations today. The poverty, oppression, commodity food, and alcoholism are the main themes in his stories. The title story of his collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven, however, deals with the life of an Indian man who has left the reservation to live in Seattle and some of the obstacles he faces in the white world. We never know the main character’s name, probably because he feels like a nameless

In article How Kids Learn Resilience, Paul Tough argues that stress can push a child into a cycle of failure in school, harmfully impacting a child’s education and outside life. He claims that stress is apparent in every student’s life; however some have more and this stress has a direct connection on the child’s success both in school and out. Stress can be caused by many things, such as economic, family, or even social problems. The stress prevents a student from staying focused in school because

John Sowers 8/18/16 English 2 Summer reading In the short story, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, one of the main sources of power that controls the character’s actions and ideas is determination. Gregor is always persistently trying to move on to the next obstacle. He has much difficulty getting out of bed, but even though it is tough and painful, he makes it after many attempts. “No matter how energetically he threw himself onto his right side, each time he rocked into the supine position. He