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    was still waiting for Crazy Horse” (p.40). Alexie is trying to show how his enemy’s ideas are penetrating through the modern Indians minds. It gives a sense of how the waitress is caught up with the new culture, where she gets a wishful thinking that the men she meets will miraculously be Crazy Horse. Yet, Victor knows the reality of it. It’s not going to happen. I on the other hand, am trapped between two cultures. My perspectives and beliefs are kind of different compared to my relatives because

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    In “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” Sherman Alexie included Jim Thorpe in his short story to emphasize Thorpe because Thorpe ran track and Sherman is trying to make a point in how fast Thomas and Victor was running. Jim Thorpe also known as James Francis Thorpe is from an Indian Territory known as the Sac and Fox. In the years Jim Thorpe was growing up, no one expected an indian to become something of themselves, but no one would have ever of thought that an indian can achieve in

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    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

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    common? They live in short stories. Two short stories that are interesting are ""Thank You M'am"" by Langston Hughes and " The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight Heaven" by Sherman Alexie. In both stories the main characters are mistreated and grow up in difficult situations. In "Thank You M'am" Roger tries to steal a woman's purse and she takes him in and helps him. In The Lone Ranger he gets bullied and no one cares about him, he did have a girlfriend but there

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    The setting is the place where things happen, because as Carlson says, “nothing happens nowhere…place is the fabric and the instrument that are going to help you find out what is going to happen” (73). In his short story “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” Sherman Alexie uses setting to guide plot development and ultimately determine where the story will go, both literally and thematically. In each of the episodes Alexie describes, the main character is obviously out

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    stereotypes as well as to emphasize the reality of Native Americans. A primary example of a film in which the filmmaker relies upon stereotypes of native peoples that emphasizes the power of film to create alternative realities is the film The Lone Ranger. In this specific film, filmmaker Gore Verbinski incorporates stereotypes of native peoples such as the bloodthirsty savage, the noble savage, the ecological Indian, and the vanishing Indian. When evaluating these stereotypes, remembering that

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    the lone ranger.He originally created the story of the Lone Ranger for a radio show on a station in Detroit.Fran Striker is also famous for creating other radio shows like the Green Hornet.He was born on August 19,1903 in Buffalo,New York,USA and died September 4,1962 at the age of 59 in Erie County,New York,USA. The Lone Ranger and the Silver Bullet is about the lone ranger and his indian friend blocking the attempts of a steamboat and its stagecoach interests to sabotage a train.The Lone Ranger

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    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

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    Lone Ranger and Tonto FistFight in Heaven On a sunny, warm spring day in May, how does a high school teacher grab students’ attention? Dreams, sex,and humor will intrigue some but add in the idea of analyzing a person or character’s psyche and even more eyes perk up. Student begin questioning, how do dreams reveal a person’s unconscious thoughts? They ponder: when friends are joking around, it is to be funny or is there more too it? Students consider what type of argument can be formed is support

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    The Wrong American Dream: Struggling to Assimilate in “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven” “Kill the Indian and save the Man,” sounds more like something out of a dystopian novel than an educational campaign slogan, but in 1887 those were the words chosen by Army Lt. Richard Henry Pratt to garner public support for government’s attempt to forcefully “Americanize” Native Americans. Native Americans that survived violence were coerced into wearing white man’s clothes, cutting their hair

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