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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven + Every Little Hurricane -…
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven + Every Little Hurricane
feeling of unease
dreams of the characters
issues of identity, racism, poverty, violence, discrimination, and alcoholism
Loss
constant tension that is created b/w diff characters---race.
struggle---overcome the challenges
Native American perspective
Use of language
Movement b/w past and present
flashbacks---Plot forwarding device
Title---significance
Style
ideas are jumbled---stream of consciousness (past and present)
the narrator's relationship with his girlfriend
the narrator's relationship with his mother (parents)
the narrator's relationship with White people---7-11 clerk, the gf, the policemen, the basketball player----
the narrator's relationship with power---fluid dimension?
Opposition of the stereotypical portrayal
confusion
chronological X
POV
multiple narrators
1st person. at times 3rd times.
constant movement b/w past and present
Humour---dark
constant dehumanization - seen as a threat first and a person later
their lives do not matter
Themes: racism-pervasive
violence and anger---effect of the loss and the pain that our ch.feel
Taken from a radio show: Lone Ranger and Tonto from 1930s. Later adapted into Tv series and films---
1st story
2nd story
Context
Spokane People---settled in the Spokane Reservation
Wounded Knee Massacre/Incident
1890s. 1973.
Medical Racism
Forced Sterilization
Allusions---historical references
narrated from a child's perspective
the narrator's relationship with his parents
the narrator's relationship with his community---pain, misery, anger---"hurricanes", "storms"
collective trauma
personal trauma
the narrator's relationship with his uncles
the narrator's realtionship with other people who deal with alcoholism
hurricane/storms---metaphors
Sherman Alexie. 1993.