Every Little Hurricane By Sherman Alexie Analysis

In the story “Every Little Hurricane” the author Sherman Alexie introduces the main character of a 9 year- old boy named Victor. Alexie inaugurates a cultural environment of Native Americans whom play role during 1976. The setting in the story takes place in a Spokane Indian Reservation village where Victor’s parents are hosting a New Year’s Eve family reunion. Throughout the story the author evaluates stories of Victor’s life in a metaphoric view contrasting the hurricane to express lived moments of his childhood. The author uses many forms of figurative language to abstract the readers in a critical thinking position. Towards the end the reader finds out there is no kind of hurricane in the story but metaphorically used to analyze the effects

Victor recalls the fight by remembering the struggles he went through with his family. By remembering the past, the author gives the reader a sense of sympathy of Victor’s life experiences. Coming from a household that went through violence is very affecting in many ways where the individual’s physical acts or thinking mindset can change who they first where. Violence is a memory to Victor when he recalls Adolph and Arnold, his uncles, fight. He describes the memory by going outside the window “He could see his uncles slugging each other with such force that had to be in love. Strangers would never want to hurt each other that badly (Alexie 2)”. I personally believe the narrator is expressing Victor’s deepest thoughts how family should not be getting into physical fights but instead showing care for each other because no stranger will get into such pain if hate is not involved or common sense towards

During his childhood his father was an alcoholic which he had to experience has a child. In the other spectrum his mother was a hard working lady who work at a trading post to support the family. In the story Alcoholism is a big theme where the author represents his personal experience with Victor’s. The main character in the story was effected with pain where his childhood was fulfilled with abuse from the alcohol. The narrator flashbacks Victors nightmares when he “dreamed of whiskey, vodka, tequila, those fluids swallowing him just as easily as he swallowed them (Alexie 7)” the author paraphrases more metaphoric meaning towards expressing his thoughts of the alcohol abuse. For the Reservation it seemed alcohol was the normality into fixing any problem. In another scene when the fight seemingly looked over Victor smelled the whiskey and blood from his uncle which made his body hurt when it reminded him the day he went sledding. Victor having to witness the actions of alcoholism it was very affecting to him to see how drinking was the way people solved or got away from problem. Alcohol should not control someone’s behavior because in the end that person’s actions will affect the way the young abstracts life values. The authors purpose in the story is to convey a message in which alcohol is not the solution when you are facing problems.

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