The text is about Sherman Alexie novel: The Lone ranger and Tonto fist fight in heaven. It is a character analysis on how the Indian's in the Spokane reservation are at different phase of survial.
Survival=Anger X Imagination. Imagination is the only weapon on the reservation.
--Sherman Alexie The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Key to Survival
Sherman Alexie's novel The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven depicts how reservation Indian's survive their hardships that mainstream society has put on them, with the use of emotion and imagination. Survival for Alexie's Indians is, "not to slow dance with [their] skeletons (21)." The reservation skeletons are the anger …
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…but both their cases are different. Thomas is a mediator and helps other find their path to survival and Victor is now learning how to search from mistakes made by his parents in the past. Showing these different stages Alexie's has shown that his Indians are able to cope with societies hardships through their journeys of finding themselves.
Work Cited
Alexie. Sherman. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. 1993
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