The Lone Ranger

Assignment name: The Lone Ranger! Interpersonal Communication Essay Name: Woo Yew Seng Introduction “Ladies and gentleman, my colleague and I are about to make a withdrawal!” This was said by John Reid, who is the Lone Ranger and also the protagonist in the scene of the movie that will be used. Among the objectives of watching the movie, the Lone Ranger, are to list out the theories of interpersonal communication and the sub-points of these theories found in the movie. Besides that, by watching

“It’s playable. It’s just before the sand trap,” I tell my opponent before walking up and switching places with her. I tee up my ball and take a step back to look at my line. I position myself and the sound of my club sweeping across the grass fills the air as I practice my swing. I wipe my sweaty palms on my shorts to stop the club from slipping. Feeling confident I square myself up with the ball and ground my feet into the short soft grass. I turn my shoulders, raise my club, and turn through my

Vietnam. He writes about what the soldiers carry in their bags, but he gives it a deeper meaning. He writes about the soldier’s life, all the emotional baggage they carry with leaving their loved ones and the pain of losing a fellow soldier. In “The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven” by Sherman Alexie, Victor goes through different encounters where he experiences racism. He ends up going back to his reservation and getting a job. These two stories are similar through the freight, “any load or burden”

conscious. An important characteristic that his characters share is a sense of wit and cynicism which helps convey Alexie's ideals in many regards. The first rhetorical device Alexie utilizes is his methophorical use of his titles. In the piece The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven he uses two characters from a movie that was very popular at the time. However he puts the two characters against each other despite them

Sherman Alexie says that being funny breaks down the barriers between people. In his short stories, “This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona” and “The Lone Ranger and Tonto and Fistfight in Heaven”, Alexie has different characters who tells jokes. Many of the jokes are funny but can lead to many problems is said at an inappropriate time and place. The two characters are already an outsider as Indians, so they would have to watch what they say and do to not offend anyone near. In “This Is What

raping some white women. One early TV show that actually had a good Native American in it was the "Lone Ranger". Tonto was his side kick that always helped the lone ranger to do good things. This is one of the first shows that actually portrayed an Native American as a good person. Even though he was promoted as a good Native American he was still played out to be less intelligent then the Lone Ranger. Starting in second half of the twentieth century school teachers started to teach school children

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

In the third video, The Revenant, mountain men are portrayed as ruthless, persevering killers. In the beginning of the clip, it shows one man being almost mauled to death by a bear. He tries to fight back and even gets a shot off from his rifle but is still attacked. The other people in his camp find him almost dead and one of them thinks they should just finish him off. When the half-dead man’s son tells everyone not to kill him, he is choked to death. While this is happening, his father tries 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

Sherman Alexie was born on October 7, 1966, in Spokane, Washington. Being a registered member of the Spokane tribe through his mother, he attended grammar school on the Spokane reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. He was originally a basketball player but when he started taking an anthology of Indian poetry literature class, he realized more girls were paying attention to him, and he liked that. He said jokingly, “I should have been writing poems all along.” (pg. 9), just to be getting the attention