The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven was my favorite collection so far. Sherman Alexie drew on his personal experiences growing up on a reservation to write this collection of beautiful, funny, sad and all around entertaining short stories. He writes in way that makes the reader feel as if they’re not reading, but listening to him speak. Alexie uses language that isn’t typical in literature, he writes like he speaks; he curses, he’s sarcastic and funny. The language also gives a better sense of the imagery so you can see and hear everything that was going on. In the introduction he admits that the mouse really did run up his aunt’s pant leg as depicted in “The Fun House” and his father really did put a passed out drunk on a roller coaster in “Amusements” and there are other examples as well. In my personal opinion some of the best stories are drawn on truths, and then exaggerated of course.
-Kaitlyn Lyons
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Kaitlyn
I wholeheartedly agree with your statement about the style used in this piece. i feel that this style is what made this reading so fast and enjoyable. Stories that draw from reality are the most easy to relate to. Here we see Alexie bending and stretching the true stories from his childhood into fun entertaining, but also morally fulfilling stories.
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