One of our first readings was “The Lone Ranger and Tonto
Fistfight in Heaven” It was a peculiar story about a man who struggles to find
his purpose and place in life. Our “protagonist” is a Native American man who
we first meet going on a trip to the seven eleven narrating his past about a
girlfriend he used to have and the fights they would get into. The man had went
to college but dropped out and is now trying to figure out where he stands. He
thought that by leaving the Indian reservation that he would find a new and
better life, but probably didn’t realize that even a new life would have its
own challenges and problems. He wanted to break from the stereotypes that
chained him, but failed at that and then began to play along with the image
that people gave him. After he left his girlfriend he moves back in with his
parents, back to the place he wanted to escape. He is jobless for a while and
in a rut. He doesn’t seem to want to aspire to do much because he needs to face his past mistakes.
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