In “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, Sherman Alexie presents a short story collection that centers on the Indian reservation. As Coulombe (94) depicts, most of Alexie's short stories in the collection frequently relate to scenes in the other stories, and this makes the collection seem like a novel. In a bid to analyze the works of the author the paper is going to focus on one of the stories in the collection, which is “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven”. The story has
In the stories of Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Sherman Alexie’s “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven there is an external conflict of man vs. man. A conflict is the struggle between opposing forces in a story or a play, according to Prof. Clay. The conflict can either be internal or external, but in this case it is external because both characters struggle with a man vs. man conflict. Both stories also share a motif of a love/hate relationship. A motif is an idea or symbol that
Importance of Community in El Tonto Del Barrio The title of Jose Armas’ story, "El Tonto Del Barrio" (or "The Barrio Dummy"), may be interpreted two different ways. The first interpretation is literal and applies to the simple-minded Romero, who with the help of his community is able to function in the real world. The second interpretation is ironic; it applies to the Harvard-bound Seferino, who though he means well is so lacking in experience that he turns Romero’s world upside down and nearly
Miranda Ciraolo Prof. McGeachy The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven The Narrator’s Negativity In The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie, the narrator is a young Native American man with a very negative outlook on the world. Although his name is never mentioned, likely to show how unimportant he feels, the narrator indirectly shares quite a bit about his personality. He has a strong negativity towards himself and the world for multiple reasons. People close to
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, written by Sherman Alexie, talked about many of the serious problems facing modern American Indians include alcoholism, poverty, racism, limited access to education, and geographical isolation. Some of those problems still exist today when I read the news. In the story ‘Because My Father Always Said He Was The Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play “the Star-spangled Banner” At Woodstock’, Victor's father during the Vietnam war beat up a national guard
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a book 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
speaking and it is a major tool when trying to engage a reader in a piece of writing. In a series of short stories composed by Sherman Alexie, Humor is a primary tool used in a majority of his pieces. According to Coulombe, In The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie produces humor through his characters in order to allow them to “display strengths and hide weaknesses, to expose prejudice and avoid realities, and to create bonds and construct barricades” (Coulombe 300). Sherman
In Sherman Alexie’s book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, characters living on the Spokane Indian Reservation struggle with poverty, alcoholism, and family issues. Alexie uses metaphor, imagery, and symbolism to convey that when the Native population of America was forced onto reservations, generations fell into cycles of uneventful, alcoholism-ridden lifestyles, disconnected from their ancestry. On the Spokane Indian Reservation depicted in the book, nothing ever happens. In the
In this letter, I aim to convince you that The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is an essential book for high school students to read. As you may know, this book is often debated to be suitable or unsuitable for usage in the classroom due to its common usage of profanity, and lack of complex words. However, the writer’s skillful depictions of relationships between people throughout the book is a great source of information for young writers on how to depict relationships in realistic terms
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight In Heaven Defining exactly what shapes ethnic identity in the United States is the hardest question I can imagine being asked. As a child born in the United States, I find this question so difficult because I have been exposed to a large variety of cultures within the small boundaries of my own family. This makes it very difficult to determine one, or even a few characteristics that define ethnic identity. In the case of many of these novels, the task of
Distinct manifestations of narrow-mindedness give rise to conflict in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” and in Sherman Alexie’s “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.” In the former, conflict arises because the narrator is blinded by his own limited understanding of the world. He struggles to reconcile his ill-informed assumptions with the reality that he finds himself experiencing, but ultimately finds hope and resolution. In the latter, constraints imposed by racial stereotypes leave the narrator
of control at one point in our lives, weather you are black, native American, Hispanic, or white. Race, skin color or nationality does not matter. This is the reoccurring theme in both of the text, “Women Hollering Creek” and “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”. Women Hollering Creek is a story by Sandra Cisneros a noted Mexican novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1954). It is a story of a young Mexican girl Cleofilas, who with visions of grandeur leaves her family to
Analysis of Sherman Alexie's 'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven' and 'Smoke Signals' Sherman Alexie based on some short stories included in his book, 'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,' wrote the screenplay for the movie 'Smoke Signals.' Both the movie and the book portray problems that Indians had to deal with, and how they dealt with it. The book is far more complex than the movie, showing a wider variation of characters facing different situations. In the movie
Heritage as an Idea of Oneself in Bless Me Ultima and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Traveling through humanity is a never-ending story. Traveling through ethnicity is an ever changing journey. Is race or culture a matter of color? Is it a way of life; or a decision an individual makes? Is it an idea one has of themselves? In the novels, Bless Me Ultima (Anaya 1972) and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Alexie 1993), two different minority characters, Tony and
The book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie and the poem “Discovery of the New World” by Carter Revard contain similar and different themes. Both pieces of literature have a theme of a greater power taking control of a lesser power. They both also use the theme of prejudice in a similar way. However, Alexie presents the theme of assimilation in his book. Assimilation means to try to change yourself to be similar to another group of people. Even though Alexie’s The
In the Story, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix, Arizona by Sherman Alexie is about the main character Victor how he encounter challenges about being Native American and poor. He has a companion named Thomas Builds a Fire with to accompany him on a trip to Phoenix Arizona to take his father and have him cremated. In the second story, Victor or the narrator talks more in depth about how it is being Native American in a foreign land. Also, describing
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 being allies in the movie. The Lone Ranger symbolizes the stereotypical attributes of white's ideal hero while Tonto symbolizes the Native Americans ideal hero. The fistfight in heaven could possibly symbolize the struggle over
Searching For Oneself Not all wounds heal- some cut deeper than just what you see on the surface. Whether in fiction or real life, this remains strikingly accurate. Sherman Alexie’s novel, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven showcases a consistent theme of inner struggle while on a constant search to find one's identity and purpose. The presence of this theme prevails in each accompanied chapter and remains a strong force in guiding each character on their own personal journey. Tradition
Everyone has had some type of conflict in his or her life. Both “The Finish of Patsy Barnes” and “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” describe important conflicts that the main characters Joby, the fourteen year old soldier and Patsy, the young African American boy are affectedly their conflicts and each must attempt to find a resolution. Both Joby and Patsy are young boys who have internal conflicts. Patsy, after moving to Dalesford, wanted to run away back to Kentucky. However, “After a few weeks
In the 1800’s silver was becoming popular and most people were moving west to try and get rich. It was becoming very crowded and lots of people were not making lots of money as planned. The Lone Ranger series shows problems that were going on during this time. It also shows how Indians and Robbers were doing at this time. The Lone Ranger series can be called on of the best series ever. The Lone Ranger has influenced mass media because it was one of the first shows of that time. It also got tons of