I assume these themes are different in their own aspects, but all his themes have one thing in common: they help illustrate the unfortunate and ever-continuing story of the Native Americans overall. Having risen in Spokane Reservation, Victor, Indian school boy, faced numerous obstacles, discrimination against himself and author was able perfectly convey it to the readers by giving several examples. The examples throughout the short story are given to illustrate a general point of fiction. In the very beginning of this fiction we learn that as Victor’s hair was too short and his U.S. Government glass were horn-rimmed and ugly, he was pushed down buried by the other Indian boys in the snow until he couldn’t breathe. Consequently, when Victor first started out in school, he did not fit in with the other Indian boys because his hair was too short, and he did not look like a true Indian.
“And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war” (O’Brien 81). In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, a nonlinear format is used to share his experiences from the Vietnam war. He uses this format due to the fact that his memories of the war are not in order, but split up into separate stories. Before O’Brien wrote the novel, he took many years to recap and comprehend what he had experienced. O’Brien uses multiple chapters, each representing a different story that he wanted to share.
The American Indian War created an imprint on Native Americans lives that will last forever. To the West was always home to them and ever since then the English colonized their land they were left with nothing, but their culture seen through museums, through reservations, and through the people their stories of the past. In the story, “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,” Sherman Alexie proudly states how being a Spokane Indian has influenced his writing (31). Although the story is fiction, Alexie’s own life experience is portrayed through the main character because he too is a Spokane Indian. However, that is the only similarity between them because the narrator struggles with his identity.
Alfred was very interested in Ishi and wanted to learn more about Indians and their culture. Alfred later opened up a Museum of Anthropology and used Ishi as a display. After several months Ishi was diagnosed with and illness called pneumonia. He was then put in a case so people could not catch his illness and only see him. Ishi told hundreds of stories about the start of his tribe and the birth of the Indians.
Resilience of the Indian People In The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie depicts the hardships of the Spokane living on the reservation. He portrays the Indian people and their culture as resilient rather than simply hopeless. These stores show how proud the Indian people are. It portrays them as having overcome difficult situations from fighting and killing the white man to trying to defeat a white man in basketball, they do it with pride and hope no matter what the result is. The “Trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire”, begins with Thomas in the tribal holding cell and the BIA officials talking about how dangerous he is because he is a storyteller who has an extreme need to tell the truth.
Lennie has always caused them trouble but this time it’s serious, he killed the bosses son, Curley’s, wife and Curly is out for blood. After the accidental murder of Curley’s wife Lennie runs off to the pond he and George slept at the night before their first day at work, because that’s where George told
In a section of the book called “The Truth about the First Thanksgiving,” Loewen examines and unravels the actual facts of this event versus the fabricated tale being taught to children for decades, concluding that authors of American history books have been ignoring certain significant occurrences in order to sanctify this country’s past, leaving people unknowledgeable. In order to support his thesis, there are many historical events that Loewen expanded on, one of them being the role of the Indians during the “discovery” of America. After realizing that many of his students could not recollect learning anything about a plague, Loewen started investigating there. He states, “Only three of the twelve textbooks even mention Indian disease as a factor of Plymouth or anywhere in New England.” When the first settlers arrived on Indian land, they brought over vast amounts of disease that the Indians had no immune system to defend, therefore killing 90% of their population. By admitting there was a catastrophic plague, allowing villages and cleared land to be abandoned, authors would be openly telling students that our founders did not work as hard as we thought they did.
Artie feels that he will never live up to his parent’s expectations of Richieu, because he was never in the War. An example of this is shown on the last page of the graphic novel, where Vladek turns over to go to sleep and calls Artie, Richieu. “I’m tired from talking, Richieu, and it’s enough stories for now…” The way Spiegleman has represented this in the text suggests to the reader that Vladek never fully loved Artie, as much as he loved his first son Richieu. This has obviously had major impacts on Arties life, and it has all primarily been caused by the Holocaust, because Vladek and Anja never fully healed after the Holocaust. Although ‘The Complete Maus’ is based around the interviews that Spiegleman has conducted with his
Unlike the white people, the American Indians appreciated their land and resources and lived in harmony with their surroundings. As Ortiz mentions, “Indians had to fight a desperate rearguard action to survive its [the white frontier’s] advance, so they had neither the time nor the means to tell their stories” (Ortiz 3). White men have all but destroyed a great deal of our environment. American Indians and those who have Native American heritages feel passionate about their histories. They have been wronged by being overshadowed by the white man’s inaccurate account of events.
Edgar Allan Poe Not many authors or poets throughout history have been known to spin tales of constant torture, supernatural surprises, and just plain eerie occurrences. Edgar Allan Poe was well known for his ability to write horror-filled, suspenseful works such as: The Raven, The Tale Tell Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Masque of the Red Death. No one knows for certain from where Poe received inspiration for these gruesome tales. Could it have been the passing of his parents when he was only three years old, or the effects of his constant drinking messing with his mind, or any other mind-boggling event from his past? The Raven would have to be Poe’s greatest and most well known poem.