The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven Analysis

741 Words2 Pages

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, written by Sherman Alexie, talked about many of the serious problems facing modern American Indians include alcoholism, poverty, racism, limited access to education, and geographical isolation. Some of those problems still exist today when I read the news. In the story ‘Because My Father Always Said He Was The Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play “the Star-spangled Banner” At Woodstock’, Victor's father during the Vietnam war beat up a national guard soldier. This scene was took down by a photographer, the final photos won the Pulitzer prize, and in many news sites. Also, victor's father went to prison for two years because of this photo. The first thing his father did when he was released was …show more content…

For years, his father had been very attached to the recording and had often listened to it while he was drinking. After divorcing with Victor's mother , he was more fond of remembering the past and drinking. Christianity is also mentioned in the article. Point out that Jimi Hendrix died younger than Jesus Christ. By referring to religion, Alexei alluded to the religious pluralism of the native American culture. In the 19th and 20th centuries, many native Americans were forced to convert to Christianity. The cultural invasion had a great impact on American Indians. The American Indian culture is not respected. In the Native News Online, “Text of Senator Elizabeth Warren's Speech to the National Congress of American Indians”, there is a sentence, “Our country’s disrespect of native people didn’t start with president trump. it started long before president Washington ever took office”(2018, para.21). When one nation is invaded by another, its culture …show more content…

His parents are having a party. Victor's uncle adolf and Arnold were quarrelling in the yard. In "every little hurricane", Alexey paints a picture of family love. On the one hand, victor's family saw each other in difficult times and worked together to overcome racism and tribulations, but they often hate each other. He established the environment in other ways in "every little hurricane." For example, the author does not explicitly describe the poverty of the victor family, but describes the time when his father could not afford Christmas presents. One of the effects of poverty on retention is the unaddressed health problem, which the author lets us know by referring to the body of Victor. In the Native News Online, here is a journal “Navajo Nation President Calls For Tribes To Work Together To Address Water, Infrastructure & Economic Development”, talked about “President Begaye attended the 2016 New Mexico Tribal Leaders Summit and called for tribes to work together to facilitate water delivery to rural communities, professional resources for economic development and for the state of New Mexico to collaboratively address education issues on the Navajo Nat” (2016, para.1). Both from the book and the news, we can know the American Indian economy is very bad and will be discriminated

Open Document