Molly Lee IWC 100 Erik Kornkven 6 February 2013 A Community’s People‚ Places‚ and Conflicts: Alexie’s View of the Spokane Reservation In The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven‚ Sherman Alexie tells the stories of a Native American culture trying to fit into the modern world. These stories primarily focus on the conflicts that exist within his community for various reasons‚ including broken personal and family relationships‚ fistfights‚ arguments‚ destruction of property‚ lack of money
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My Interpretation I based my brochure off of the short story Jesus Christ’s Half-Brother is Alive and Well on the Spokane Indian Reservation written by Sherman Alexie. The Spokane Indian Reservation is located in a barren wasteland in Washington State. If you travel there‚ you will see first hand examples and effects of racism‚ and poverty on an Indian reservation. You will also see the striking differences between life on a reservation and life in middle-class America. Most of the adults
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Seattle vs. Historic Spokane In Sherman Alexie’s short story‚ “What You Pawn I Redeem‚” Jackson‚ the protagonist‚ must figure out how he can merge his Native American culture into modern day Seattle. The characters in this story have similar characteristics of real life Native Americans. According to The main character‚ Jackson Jackson‚ is part of the Spokane Indian Tribe but he has moved to a larger metropolitan area in Seattle‚ which is much different from the cultured-based Spokane Reservation. Most
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Eliza High Allison Moore Junior English 25 Sept. 2014 The Native American Experience Life on the Spokane Indian Reservation is filled with shattered dreams and lost Indian souls drowning the sorrows of their people in alcohol. Reservation Blues‚ a novel by Sherman Alexie‚ depicts the story of an unlikely group of Indians coming together to chase their dreams with the help of a magic guitar‚ Big Mom‚ and their Indian blood as they struggle with the realities of being Indian in a white world
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the Spokane Indian Reservation. With the support of his family‚ he decided to attend Rearden High School in order to change the path of his life for the better. Along the way‚ he discovers and loses himself in the process of bettering himself. Sherman Alexie used his own tribal identity to inspire the events that Arnold Spirit Jr. was experiencing in the book. He spoke about how being an Indian was enough to make people discriminate and hate you by just looking at your red skin. White people believed
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adversities are irreversible to the past‚ but not the future if you don’t allow it to be. In Alexie short stories they’re all interconnected with each story showcasing the hardships of Native Americans in the 15th century and late 20th century. The Spokane Reservation is the setting that’s connected with each story where Sherman discusses poverty‚ alcoholism‚ and isolation from society outsides one reservation. For example‚ when Junior‚ Thomas‚ and Victor was taking the new drugs they were discussing
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to ride horses and to hunt buffalos. This is what most of the people think when they say “Indian”. But Sherman Alexie ‚in his volume “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” and then the movie Smoke Signals based on one story from this volume- Thus Is What it Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona- try to present the image of the real Indian in the real life and work against this “formerly-held stereotypes to form a new‚ uniquely Spokane identity” all these in a humorous‚
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Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian‚ the author allows readers to create a vivid image of the lives of the Spokane Indians by using teen language‚ humor and irony because it allows the readers to face serious issues in an enjoyable way. Junior makes the readers understand the way he lives in his reservation full of poverty and alcoholism and goes to the outside world filled with people discriminating against him. Alexie‚ using Junior’s humor and teen language makes these tragedies seem less awful
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sympathy for him because they were both an inspiration to him. When he spoke to his grandmother‚ she gave him advice and his sister was just an overall inspiration for him to also follow his dreams. After that he starts to realize that‚ “I was a Spokane Indian. I belonged to that tribe. But I also belonged to the tribe of American immigrants. And to the tribe of basketball players. And to the tribe of bookworms. And to the tribe of cartoonists. And to the tribe of chronic masturbators. And the tribe
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Washington‚ expresses how he uses reading as a way to “save his life”. In his short story “Superman and Me”‚ Alexie tells us how he uses his reading to teach himself to write. He then goes on to inspire other young Indians. This young man from the Spokane Indian Reservation shows us that no matter where we come from we are able to go above and beyond. Alexie came from a middle class family. He states that one of his parents usually managed to find a minimum wage job or another. (pg. 89) Alexie’s father
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