Summary Of The Lone Ranger And Tonto's Fistfight In Heaven

“Survival = Anger X Imagination.” Is this equation really true? Well, at least one person thinks it is. In Sherman Alexie’s book The Lone Ranger and Tonto’s Fistfight in Heaven, he gives the equation in order to aid in the understanding of character backgrounds and characteristics. By taking Alexie’s equation on blind faith, it in fact would be quite simple to in some way, shape or form halfheartedly apply to any character and see some sense in doing so. However, when a deeper and more thorough examination takes place it is more inherently apparent that this equation is not fully applicable to all characters in the movie. In the movie “Smoke Signals,” equation it’s true for some characters while not being true for others. Additionally, there are some certain circumstances where are the

In this case, it is Victor’s father who tells the story of how he and Victor won a basketball game between the two of them and clergy members from a church. Victor’s father says that Victor made the game winning shot at the last second. As it is seen in the movie, Victor states that his father’s recollection of the events was not accurate, thus the audience might speculate that Victor’s father was using his imagination. The reason that Victor’s father was using his imagination was due to the anger that he had that his son did not make the game winning shot. This is a perfect example of how anger and imagination can be used in accordance with each other to lead to survival. In the case of Victor’s father come on the equation “ Survival = Anger X Imagination” is very true and apparent. This proves that Alexie’s equation is fully applicable to at least one character. This occurrence may have been the event when Alexie was given the inspiration to write the equation itself. For Victor’s father, survival was only possible because of his anger and imagination. He is a perfect example of how clearly the equation can