Word Count: 1128 Smoke Signals and the Oral Tradition While watching the movie Smoke Signals‚ it can be readily observed that the story is driven not only through the adventures of the two main protagonists; Thomas Builds-the-Fire and Victor Joseph‚ but also through the words and histories spoken by Thomas‚ who is a practicer of the spoken word‚ or oral traditions of Native Americans. The oral tradition was used by Native Americans to pass down history‚ culture‚ traditions‚ and their beliefs
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The movie Smoke Signals by Sherman Alexie is a modernized film that reflects the culture‚ attitudes‚ and persona of contemporary Indians. This film exposes the reality of life on a reservation‚ which many may mistake for nightly fire dances and feather hats. Through universal life scenarios and explanation of culture‚ Alexie not only shines a new light on indian life‚ but reflects upon the similarities and differences that exist between cultures. The film makes use of human emotion‚ situations and
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The Struggles of Arnold In the book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie‚ Arnold Spirit the main character struggles with being an Indian and going to Reardan‚ the all-white school where he wants to find hope. He struggles with acceptance because of his disability and he is an Indian. He also struggle with losing his best friend Rowdy as a friend‚ and he also struggles with losing loved ones. Though he has many‚ he copes with them and fixes them in the end.
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Indian Identity In 1990‚ Congress declared November as American Indian Heritage Month‚ and they also passed the Native American Languages Act‚ followed by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. At the same time‚ movie Dances With Wolves was timely and it reminded American people that Indians occupied the country long before Christopher Columbus set foot on it. During the whole 1990s‚ American Indian became hot property in Hollywood. Studios scrambled to duplicate the success
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Smoke Signals: Analysis and Comparison of Modern America Smoke Signals is a film focuses on two men from an Indian reservation who embark on a road trip across the country to retrieve the ashes of a loved one. The film‚ which was an all-Native American production with the producers‚ director‚ screenwriter and actors all of native Indian descent‚ provides a window of Native life on the reservation‚ providing a rural environment that reflects how many people in that culture are living during that
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All people are different and the characters in “The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-TIme Indian” demonstrate this. The main character Arnold “Junior” Spirit shows that even though you may be born in the same place and time as others you are different. This is the case with Junior and his best friend Rowdy‚ while they were born in the same town at the same time Junior’s drive to get more out of life set him apart from Rowdy. This was demonstrated by his push to change schools‚ his determination
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shows up time and time again. This hatred often leads to unnecessary deaths
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and "Smoke Signals" Sherman Alexie based on some short stories included in his book‚ "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven‚" wrote the screenplay for the movie "Smoke Signals." Both the movie and the book portray problems that Indians had to deal with‚ and how they dealt with it. The book is far more complex than the movie‚ showing a wider variation of characters facing different situations. In the movie there is Victor‚ the main character‚ which tries to be the typical Indian‚ or
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Richele Tucker Stacie Sather English 305 15 November 2013 The novel‚ The Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexi is about a young American Indian boy who decides to leave the reservation to better his life. He starts out finding himself through this change in his life and continues to grow and change into the young man he wants to become. At the beginning of the novel he seems frustrated because he is told he must do as the others on the reservation and he seems to feel mistreated
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In the book The Absolutely True Story of a Part - Time Indian by Sherman Alexie The main character Junior has to deal with many obstacles that take a tool on him throughout the book. One of the obstacles that Junior faces is the loss and depression from losing two family members. Another obstacle is that Junior has to leave his home reservation school and go to an all white school can Reardan. The final obstacle that Junior faces is that he has a brighter future and smarter than most kids on his
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