The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven Analysis
Survival=Anger X Imagination. Imagination is the only weapon on the reservation.
--Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Key to Survival
Sherman Alexie 's novel The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven depicts how reservation Indian 's survive their hardships that mainstream society has put on them, with the use of emotion and imagination. Survival for Alexie 's Indians is, "not to slow dance with [their] skeletons (21)." The reservation skeletons are the anger of the past and the dreams of the future that each Indian needs to combine to survive in the present. Alexie 's novel shows these different phases through his characters that are trying to find the combination to survival.
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Alexie shows Thomas 's character as being close with his future skeleton to portrait someone that can help trigger the survival equation within the reservation.
On the other hand, Victor is stuck dancing with his past skeleton according to Alexie 's survival equation. . In All I Wanted to do was Dance Victor believes he can solve his problem about the woman that left him by flashback to the good times. However, his flashbacks are only filled with violence and alcohol that make him anger about his behavior towards his lover,
"It happened that way. He thought one more beer could save the world. One more beer and every chair would be comfortable. One more beer and the light bulb in the bathroom would never burn out. One more beer and her would love her forever. One more beer an he would sign any treaty for her (Alexie 88)."
The alcohol that Victor consumes seems to be his only way of coping with a loss. This method of suppressing anger has been passed down from Victor 's parents, which is shown through flashbacks of his parents when they were still together, "they were
--Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Key to Survival
Sherman Alexie 's novel The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven depicts how reservation Indian 's survive their hardships that mainstream society has put on them, with the use of emotion and imagination. Survival for Alexie 's Indians is, "not to slow dance with [their] skeletons (21)." The reservation skeletons are the anger of the past and the dreams of the future that each Indian needs to combine to survive in the present. Alexie 's novel shows these different phases through his characters that are trying to find the combination to survival.
In Funhouse Aunt Nezzy is trapped within a …show more content…
Alexie shows Thomas 's character as being close with his future skeleton to portrait someone that can help trigger the survival equation within the reservation.
On the other hand, Victor is stuck dancing with his past skeleton according to Alexie 's survival equation. . In All I Wanted to do was Dance Victor believes he can solve his problem about the woman that left him by flashback to the good times. However, his flashbacks are only filled with violence and alcohol that make him anger about his behavior towards his lover,
"It happened that way. He thought one more beer could save the world. One more beer and every chair would be comfortable. One more beer and the light bulb in the bathroom would never burn out. One more beer and her would love her forever. One more beer an he would sign any treaty for her (Alexie 88)."
The alcohol that Victor consumes seems to be his only way of coping with a loss. This method of suppressing anger has been passed down from Victor 's parents, which is shown through flashbacks of his parents when they were still together, "they were