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In five pages Alexie's Indian Killer and Momaday's House Made of Dawn are analyzed so as to compare and contrast how alienation le...

spotted horse grazed on the plain, and there was a dark wildness on the mountains beyond. The land was still and strong. It was ...

Americans are in actuality much more oppressed by government regulations and society as a whole than they were in this earlier tim...

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

This essay offers a comparison between Sherman Alexie's "The Trial of Thomas Builds-The-Fire" and "Turtle Lake" by Gloria Bird. Th...

determine the dramatic strengths and weaknesses of one version compared to another. The movie This is a "coming of age" story and...

of community and what he can give back to the community, Sherman often can be found in the oddest venues. Sometimes he will turn d...

he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...

time" (Alexie 34-36). This is a summation of the conflict of the modern Native, from the eyes of the narrator, today. It speaks of...

an infant and was given little chance of survival. And heres what Junior says of himself: "I was born with water on the brain. OK,...

physical eye. This eye is not really something that is symbolic in relationship to standing as a cultural icon or something else, ...

done about those who suffered, those simple cultural people who were victims of the civilized world (Castillo 40-45). This...

similarity to the fascinating stories that are in both N. Scott Momadays House Made of Dawn and Anna Linzers Ghost Dancing as the ...

look at each other. The story begins with the walk into a shop, where the shop assistant is weary of the narrator...

In six pages this essay compares these two literary works in terms of family impact and protagonist alienation. There are no othe...

In five pages this paper examines the author's uses of imagery in terms of characterization and plot development. There are no ot...

In five pages this paper discusses the savage social commentary featured in Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie. Five sources are...

In five pages this research paper reviews the 1996 novel by Sherman Alexie. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

close, as truly intimate with his wife as he is with this group of friends. Nick does not run away from his responsibility, but th...

family depicted in this book after all represents a rather blas? view of America. On closer consideration, however, it becomes ap...

Native American literature is interesting both in content and in the fact that it is a relatively recent phenomena. Native Americ...

she is thinking or what has occurred. Surrounded by a halo of light, Shermans face is a "shadowed" mask and it is this melodramati...

of reference, then one will never know, in any given case, what really happened" (Tompkins, Indians, 60; Cochran 69). In this case...

Jimmy thinks back to his childhood. At any rate, it is a startling introduction to life as Jimmy and other Indians live it. It al...

from an anthropological or historical perspective rather than a literary genre and reflects the 1960s commitment to human rights a...

son and tried to do the right thing by him, providing him what he regarded as a good upbringing and proper education, but is often...

would marry white people who would beget quarter-bloods, and so on and so on, until simple mathematics killed the Indian in us" (A...

He is shot and wakes to find himself in another body, a person in the past. Zits has access to the persons memories and knows the ...

begins, it can be stated, with a desire for land, goods, resources, and strategic military operations. In a struggle of strong ver...

the world tend to be heavily influenced by their methods of acquiring food, whether by hunting wild animals or by agriculture. Nat...