Every Little Hurricanes Analysis

Using a metaphorical hurricane to display the struggling storms of Victor and his family, Alexis manages to paint a gloomy narration of the unsettling Native American life in the Reservations. Alexis weaves the metaphorical hurricane throughout the story as a metaphor of the chaos that defined the Native American life. Every Little Hurricane unfolds as nine-year-old Victor wakes up in his HUD house to a hurricane that is a quarrel between his two uncles. The Native American struggling grasp of staying afloat in the Reservations manifests itself in the form of a series of unchecked rages by his two uncles Arnold and Adolph: “the winds increased, and the first tree fell” (1), speaking to the stormy-like unsettling living condition that was shared