written by Sherman Alexie a Native American fiction and poetry writer, who wrote a series of short stories about a man named Victor and his dreams and flashbacks. Sherman Alexie first began writing poetry, and created a book of poems called The Business of Fancydancing before writing his short stories on the post-modernism Native Americans. During the period of time when Alexie was writing poems and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven he relied heavily on alcohol. Alexie did quit drinking which
Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore,” humor mitigates the characters’ pain and despair. One common function hum... ... middle of paper ... ...na, 2005. Print. In his book, Grassian looks at Alexie’s works from The Business of Fancydancing and Old Shirts and New Skins to Ten Little Indians and analyzes each work such that readers can understand what Alexie is trying to convey. In Chapter 1, Grassian gives some background on Alexie’s childhood, which helps readers understand