... Hendrix play at Woodstock," although Victor suspects "there were hundreds." His father doesn't mind. "What's real?" he asks. "I ain't interested in what's real. I'm interested in how things should be." The son takes a lesson. When his father later abandons both his mother and him, Victor dreams of a homecoming and stands on the porch all night long waiting, wrapped in his mother's favorite ... : John Laroe Sherman Alexie wraps himself in a richly intertextual quilt of visions for his first foray into major league publishing, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Like many Native...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Hendrix play at Woodstock," although Victor suspects "there were hundreds." His father doesn't mind. "What's real?" he asks. "I ain't interested in what's real. I'm interested in how things should be." The son takes a lesson. When his father later abandons both his mother and him, Victor dreams of a homecoming and stands on the porch all night long waiting, wrapped in his mother's favorite ... : John Laroe Sherman Alexie wraps himself in a richly intertextual quilt of visions for his first foray into major league publishing, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Like many Native...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... , but the statement had a different effect on each of them. Sweetwater was interested by the thought, and he decided that he now had certain similarities with the son of God. Wonder Horse, however, was disturbed by the idea, and argued that he could not have been a good carpenter. He tried to make himself superior ... . His father seemed to think that it was a matter of blood, but he knew it must be something more. "What is an Indian? Is it a son who brings his father to school as show and tell?" P.227 When Dr. Lawrence Crowell tried to tell the narrator what it meant to be Indian; his f...

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• Grade Level: High School