The topic that I am going to be talking here is related to the topic of my Long Ranger and Tonto essay.
As we read the stories, I marked places where "quilts" are brought up and if we think about a quilt as a combination of different patterns that have been sewn together, this can be symbolic of the collection of stories that Native Americans have about their past. Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven is an example of one of these collections. Sherman Alexie used these short stories to help this new generation of Native Americans survive on the reservation and the young characters are using the stories in this way. There is this sort of collection of stories within the Sherman Alexie's collection.
Do you mean Sherman Alexie? ;)
ReplyDeleteNye, that is a very interesting insight. I never thought about the whole book as a quilt, but that definitely seems plausible .And I like your idea that the quilts are made up of stories from the past that shape the Indian traditions as a whole and act as a guide for the new generations to come.
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