Abstract
In The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie paints through twenty two short stories a dark picture of Native Americans' today's situation in the United States of America. Published in 1993 by The Atlantic Monthly Press, this book describes the current conditions of livings in the Native Americans' reservations.
On the one hand, I found this book interesting because of Sherman Alexie's particular form of narration and his description of Native Americans' society. But on the other hand, some aspects of the book disappointed me. Indeed, I disagree with Sherman Alexie on the absence of hope and I found that some characters were not enough elaborated.
What I specially enjoyed in The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven is the particular kind of narration. Firstly, the chronology is shattered, since stories are told in a non chronologic way both inside the short stories and from a short story to another. Indeed, there are many flashbacks in most short stories. Those flashbacks are for instance describing scenes from Victor's childhood, like in "This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona". Between the short stories, there also are is not any chronological continuity.
