The Lone Ranger

Sammy and Victor rebel against Mainstream culture John Updike’s “A&P” and Sherman Alexie’s “ The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven” seem notably similar. In Updike's story, a cashier in a store named “ A&P”, Sammy, notices three girls who walk into the store in bathing suits. After a dispute between one of the three girls, Queenie, and the store’s manager, Sammy rebels against the manager and mainstream culture by standing up for those girls and quitting his job. In Alexie’s story, similarly

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

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

others are just the cards that were dealt to them. Sherman Alexie’s story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven tells of the cards that were given to people on a reservation. This compilation of stories was the framework for Smoke Signals, which won two awards at Sundance Film Festivals. Alexie has also written other novels and poems in regard to the Native American culture. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven was an interesting read to say the least. It tells of the

“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 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

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

experienced excessive 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

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

Throughout the book, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven, life is heavily portrayed on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Some factors of life such as tradition and storytelling are easily noticed throughout the book; however, some less noticed factors of life such as resilience and forgiveness might forgo the reader’s attention. The challenges faced by those living on the reservation are abundant. The way these individuals, especially Victor, overcome these challenges is just a testimony