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Summary Of Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven

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How would it feel to be a Native American residing in a time where the Native Americans are heavily discriminated against? How is it to have constant nightmares about how White people would kill Native Americans. In the “Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” by Sherman Alexie, the speaker is a Native American and tells the reader about his dream and shows a daily life of him as well. In the excerpt, he had a dream about how he dies and a war breaks out against the Whites and the Native Americans. What would be the psychic space of this dream? How would the title relate at all if it does to this story? First of all, in the beginning, the speaker being a Native American, he got many weird stares. There was a lot of racism in the …show more content…

In his dream, the speaker was shot by a White individual. After being shot it started up a mini war when the author states, “As I lay dying, my tribe learned of the shooting and attacked the whites all across the reservation. I died and my soul drifted above the reservation.” (Alexie 366) From here, it seems that the speaker’s psychic space seems to be in a state of hopelessness. Reading into the tone of this portion of the story, it seems that the speaker has lost hope in his future because of all of what happens around him. From racism to him leaving his lover, these events made it seem like his life is just falling apart. Not only does his psychic space is of hopelessness, this also seems to be a wild space as well. Before explaining the dream, the speaker states that he had “crazy dreams… but it seemed they became nightmares more often in Seattle.” (Alexie 366) As the dream intensified and more and more Whites and Native Americans were getting involved, the scene that really got the speaker was when three soldiers played polo with the head of dead Indian women. At this scene, the tone made the speaker seem like he was in distraught. He thought that it was just his anger that created this disturbing scene, but soon the speaker states that he became terrified that the playing of polo with a head of an Indian was used in the past and is still happening in the speaker’s

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