![]() ![]() Without a precise and definite identity, people cannot make any solid existential, ethical, and worldview foundation and a constructive mode of being in this world. However, in modern times Native Americans tend to marginalized behavior as they are not already authentic Indians and cannot be white men. A reader can see its manifestations, especially in the following stories: “A Drug Called Tradition,” “Amusements,” and “Distances.” They all have the same nostalgic motif and atmosphere about days when Indians lived by their traditions not in reservations but on their lands conquered by white men. ![]() Moreover, there is the central theme: people’s lives’ detachment from their roots and the impossibility of adapting to a new world as a marginalizing factor. The book’s main characters are Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-the-Fire they appear in most stories. ![]() It contains 22 short stories with the same characters, Native Americans living on the Spokane Indian Reservation. “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” is a collection of interconnected short stories by Sherman Alexie, who published it in 1993 and added two new levels in 2003. ![]()
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