The Native Americans" Genocide In the novel, The Lone Ranger Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (LRT), Sherman Alexie not only depicted the struggles of the Native American Indians on a Spokane Indian Reservation, but he also tried to weave in their harsh past and unpredictable future. ... For example, Sherman Alexie described junior high girls throwing up their lunch in the bathrooms and, "[grew] skinny from self-pity" (177). ... Since a hurricane could not have happened during this fight, Alexie describes this fight in such a way because he wants to convey a message of going against ...

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If that is true, then that point was definitely shattered by Sherman Alexie. Alexie is the author of Reservation Blues, and with his aid, his book was turned into a movie which was called Smoke Signals. ... (Alexie 288-290) Even though the theme varied just a bit, the main idea of abandon is still there with Reservation Blues and Smoke Signals. ...

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