The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fist Fight In Heaven Analysis

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Jesus Christ’s Half-Brother is Alive and Well on the Spokane Indian Reservation Imagine the world without hope, diversity, uniqueness, heroes and role models. Everybody would have the same height, shape, voice, skin color, eye color, hair color, clothes, job, interests and so on. They would most likely live in the same type of home, own the same things, speak the same language and eat the same food. If a person tried to be unique, the society would try to drag that person down to society’s hopeless status. Personally, I couldn’t stand a minute in a world like that. Unfortunately, the worlds like these exist. In Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven, Alexie writes about a typical Indian reservation in the United States …show more content…

In the very first lines to describe about James and about his namesake, “Anyhow she gave birth to him but he came out all blue and they couldn’t get him to breathe for a long time but he finally did and Rosemary Morningdove name him ------ which is unpronounceable in Indian and English but it means: He Who Crawls Silently Through the Grass with a Small Bow and One Bad Arrow Hunting for Enough Deer to Feed the Whole Tribe. We just call him James” (Alexie, 110-11). Based on this quote, the author gave us a littlie bit meaning about James’s name by telling us how James gets into this world. According to the Bible, James is Jesus’s half brother, he is the other son between Mother Marry and her husband. As Jesus, James lives in faith, teach and help people to follow the God’s holy, spiritual laws, which help us understand what sin is. However, the difference between James and Jesus is Jesus was born as the Son of God and Mother Marry, carry the power and magical of God; meanwhile, James was born as a normal person. In my opinion, James’s mother give him that name, “James”, because she wants her James live like James, Jesus’s half-brother, in Bible, having huge of knowledge and helping others. In addition, James in the novel and Jesus in the Bible have few similar things for people to understand his James following Jesus life. For example, …show more content…

The narrator thinks James’s grandfather, Moses, wants to get out of his grandfatherly duties so the narrator takes care of James. Since he carried James, he like a single dad but James made his life became better and not longer lonely. At the beginning of story, in the first few years when the narrator adopted James, he keep drinking and living without hope. After the time the narrator got drunk and forgot his baby, James, in front of another people’s house, he started to take serious to himself and his baby. Following the story, it has many details to support the meaning of James to the narrator; such as, when he found out James could not speak or cry. He addresses this issue by taking James to doctors, but Alexie writes, “They looked him over and said there was nothing wrong with him and that he’s just a little slow developing and that’s what the doctors always say and they’ve been saying that about Indians for five hundred years” (page 120), this quote show the racism between the white and Indian, and the narrator knows something wrong is happening to his kid that is not because he is Indian. After he adopted James, he went form being alone to having a family who is supporting him. For example, the narrator develops an alcohol problem and in response to his failure to stop, his aunt and Suzy Song (who babysits James) moves in

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