The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven Analysis

In Sherman Alexi’s book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, he creates a series of vignettes that he uses to describe the culture of modern Native Americans living on reservations. One of his primary techniques he uses to help reproduce the emotional and cultural strife is to create two-dimensional characters that he uses as a back-drop for the rest of the image he paints with the rest of the stories. Victor’s dad and his friend Thomas are two examples, but Alexi creates one exceptionally emphatic character in a story called “A Train is an Order of Occurrence Designed to Lead to Some Result,” which recounts the tale of Samuel Builds-the-Fire and the exaggerated effects of alcohol on reservation Indians.
What sets Samuel apart from