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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | 'The Same Damn Stories': Exploring a Variation on Tradition in Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
In the following essay, McGrath examines The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven as both a literary work and as an artistic cultural representation.
In Sherman Alexie's story, "A Drug Called Tradition," from his story collection, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Victor, the narrator, speaks about what he calls the skeletons of the past and the future: "There are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you ... Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they're not necessarily evil, unless you let them be. What you have to do...
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- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven: Introduction
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven: Summary
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven: Sherman Alexie Biography
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven: Summary and Analysis
- Summary and Analysis: Every Little Hurricane
- Summary and Analysis: A Drug Called Tradition
- Summary and Analysis: Crazy Horse Dreams and The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore
- Summary and Analysis: Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ at Woodstock and This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
- Summary and Analysis: Amusements and A Train Is an Order of Occurrence Designed to Lead to Some Result
- Summary and Analysis: The Fun House, A Good Story and First Annual All-Indian Horseshoe Pitch and Barbecue
- Summary and Analysis: All I Wanted to Do Was Dance and The Trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire
- Summary and Analysis: Distances and Imagining the Reservation
- Summary and Analysis: Jesus Christ’s Half-Brother is Alive and Well on the Spokane Indian Reservation, The Approximate Size of my Favorite Tumor and Somebody Kept Saying Powwow
- Summary and Analysis: Indian Education, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Family Portrait and Witnesses, Secret and Not
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- Questions and Answers: Amusements and A Train is an Order of Occurrence Designed to Lead to Some Result
- Questions and Answers: The Fun House, A Good Story and The First Annual All-Indian Horseshoe Pitch and Barbecue
- Questions and Answers: All I Wanted to Do Was Dance and The Trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire
- Questions and Answers: Distances and Imagining the Reservation
- Questions and Answers: Jesus Christ’s Half Brother is Alive and Well on the Spokane Indian Reservation, Approximate Size of my Favorite Tumor and Somebody Kept Saying Powwow
- Questions and Answers: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Indian Education, Family Portrait and Witnesses, Secret and Not
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