The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight In Heaven .
Defining exactly what shapes ethnic identity in the United States is the hardest question I can imagine being asked. As a child born in the United States, I find this question so difficult because I have been exposed to a large variety of cultures within the small boundaries of my own family. This makes it very difficult to determine one, or even a few characteristics that define ethnic identity. In the case of many of these novels, the task of defining ethnic identity is not so complicated. The list of determinants that I believe to define ethnic identity includes language, geographic location, and tradition. Language is the most obvious determinant of ethnic identity, especially in the United States. Language barriers were particularly apparent in The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston. The main character's family in this novel was Chinese and represented the first generation of immigrants for this family. Due to the fact that the entire family spoke Chinese, they were forced to find housing in an area where it was possible to carry on a normal life without speaking English. This area turned out to be Chinatown, in San Francisco. Living in a haven geared to one culture would limit the ability of younger generations to expand past the boundaries of Chinese culture and become Americanized, which served to preserve many aspects of Chinese culture even further, and truly defining the children of Chinatown, and others in similar situations, as Chinese-Americans. Geographic location can both inhibit and expand the depth of ethnic identity. In the book that I chose to read, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven, by Sherman Alexie, this was the chief determinant of ethnicity. In this novel, the main character spends much of his life on an Indian Reservation. The Reservation facilitates only Indians, and each inhabitant of the Reservation seems to know what the others are thinking.
Review of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie Sherman Alexie's debiut The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven gives its readers an insight into the contemporary Native American life. ... What is also successfully done in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, is confronting the past Indian tradition with today's life on the reservation. ...
Initially one of the four Indians, who takes on the persona of the Lone Ranger, attempts to tell the story, but cannot find the proper beginning line. ... Lone Ranger continues on to explain that First woman falls out of the sky and lands on a Turtle. ... After some more biblical references, which prove to be quite confusing to a Christian reader, the Lone Ranger's story ends with First Woman and Ahdamn, being taken to Florida by some soldiers. ...
American Ethnic Literature The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven Resonating Rhetoric Although Alexie resonates some reoccurring ideas throughout his stories, each idea is illustrated in a number of unique and different ways. ...
I will analyze the short story, "Every Little Hurricane", taken from the anthology, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. ... His first collection of short stories, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, was published in 1993, and that was just the beginning. ... Alexie also uses cultural figures like Crazy Horse, Jesus Christ, Jimi Hendrix, and the Lone Ranger, to accentuate the complexities of his humble characters. ... All of the stories in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven challenge the reader intellectually, emotionally and spiritually. ... After...
His first collection of short stories, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, was published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1993. ... The theme is especially prominent in the short story "Because My Father Always Said He Was The Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play "The Star-Spangled Banner" At Woodstock", by Sherman Alexie, which can be found in his collection of stories, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight In Heaven. ... In another of Alexie's short stories which is also in The Lone Ranger and Tonto, "The Only Traffic Signal On The Reservation Doesn't Flash Red Anymore", a...
This movie is Smoke Signals, directed by Chris Eyre and based on Sherman Alexie's book, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fight in Heaven. ... One such example is the long-standing show, The Lone Ranger. ... While thanking the two men she says, "You two are like the Lone Ranger and Tonto". ...
Four Indians Hawkeye, Ishmael, lone ranger, and Robinson Crusoe, are all intertexttual characters which represented women who all strongly emphasized the theme using imagery and variations on the creation story ,as well as more modern stories. Lone Ranger is the first woman who represents the first nations. ...
Racial or ethnic identity could play a major role in one's life. They both represent one's cultural existence. It is that ethnic and racial identity that sometimes shapes people's lives. Some of the cultural barriers and difficulties are represented in the story "The Lone Ranger a...
In the story "Mericans" we are at a church in Mexico. The writer uses the detailed description of the church, the praying, and the Spanish language to help you visualize that you are at a church in Mexico. It is the girl's memory of a day when she and her brothers follow their "awful grandmother" to...