Sherman Alexie's novel, "Reservation Blues," depicts the struggles of Native Americans living on a reservation. Although the story focuses on the lives of a group of teenagers in a rock band, the novel still shows the hardships and setbacks of all the people living on the reservation. Because of the...
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 ...
