1. Smoke Signal
Out of instinct, or possibly guilt, Arnold rushed to catch baby Thomas before hitting the ground. Victor doesn"t find out that information until later on in the movie by Arnold's lady friend, Susie. She gave some good advice to Victor, to basically to forgive and forget. She wanted to make Victor understand that Arnold had good intentions and loved him and went back into the house. Susie wanted Victor to know that it's okay to be mad but it's time to move on and actually forgive him. Victor is already an angry man and if he kept the anger, the pain, the state of feeling abandon, then he would never overcome that problem to become a better person that he can and needs to be. .
In Reservation Blues, Victor also feels abanded. Not only does he feel abanded by his father, like Smoke Signals, but also by his best friend Junior. After being through so much like going to Seattle for a dream, drinking, and chasing white women, Victor could only have the feeling of being alone. He missed him so much that even talked to the dead, the ghost of Junior. Junior kept asking him questions. "Are you going to miss me?" "I"m going to miss getting drunk with you," Victor said. Junior responded, "Oh, yeah enit? We had some good times, didn"t we?" But like any good and noisy friend, Victor wanted to know something. "Why"d you do it.? You know, shoot yourself. In the head?" Junior tried to change the subject by talking about how people in the Trading Post were talking about how he didn"t mean to shoot himself and the only reason why he committed suicide was because he wanted attention. Then he switched subjects again saying how he is going to miss getting drunk with him. Next he reminisced on how they used to chase white women. But Victor caught on. He asked again why he did it. Junior finally confessed. "Because life is hard That's the whole story folks. I wanted to be dead. Gone. No more Because when I closed my eyes like Thomas, I didn"t see a damn thing.
Sherman Alexie's novel, "Reservation Blues," depicts the struggles of Native Americans living on a reservation. Although the story focuses on the lives of a group of teenagers in a rock band, the novel still shows the hardships and setbacks of all the people living on the reservation. ... This same notion also affects the other generations of Indians living on the reservation. ... Likewise, Samuel believes he can take on the Tribal Cops of the reservation in a game of basketball. The Tribal Cops represents the white man and how they have control over the Indians on the reservation. ...
In the book Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie the issue of hunger is so prominent it is impossible to ignore. ... The government is in complete control over what the characters in Reservation Blues get to eat. ... The characters in the book Reservation Blues do eat a lot of "white" American food, but throughout the novel there is one Native American food commodity that is constant. ... This means they are eating two slices of bread with only wishes in between. ... I believe that because of the physical hunger the characters in Reservation Blues endure they are also emotionally starved as wel...
In the movie, Smoke Signals, two men from the Coeur d"Alene Indian Reservation, take a journey to Arizona. ... the reservation radio deejay tells his American Indian listeners as ``Smoke Signals'' opens. ... The difference between the movie and the book is that, in movie Victor and his mother are alone where as in the book it is said that there is a council of indian who support them. ... the reservation radio deejay tells his American Indian listeners as ``Smoke Signals'' opens. ... ``Smoke Signals'' comes billed as the first feature written, d...
The main characters of "Reservation Blues" were affected in different ways by having the choice to stay on the reservation or actually leaving the reservation. The reservation was a place where the Indians could feel at home. ... It was a new world almost and the book illustrated many of the differences between the whites and Indians. ... The band could have just played on the Spokane Reservation and also the neighboring reservations. ... The band already had the praise of the reservation when they were only the reservations. ...
Segment Analysis on Smoke Signals The film entitled Smoke Signals, directed by Chris Eyre deals with the lifestyle of Native Americans living on an Indian reservation in Idaho. The main characters Victor (Adam Beach) and Thomas (Evan Adams) grew up together on this reservation. ... When they return to the reservation, both Victor and Thomas have found new respect for each other as well as for Arnold Joseph. ... The closing scene not only reflects Victor's accomplishment, it also relates to the all the other Native Americans on the reservation. ... Their belief is to remain on the rese...
So, the movie Smoke Signals has a lot of serious meaning, and gives ability to learn lessons from the life experience of movies characters. As the lesson mother tried to impress upon her son -Victor Joseph: how she learned to make be the best fry bread in Coeur d"Alene Indian Reservation even, "in the all world" by acceptance the advices and help others, I realized and learned from one day of my life-the day before my marriage. ...
Alexie's first novel, Reservation Blues, was published in 1995 and is no exception to this. ... Although the title can refer to the Reservation Blues being the general sad and depressing atmosphere on the Reservation it can also refer to the type of music, the Blues, as being appropriated by Native Americans. ... Grassian further argues that Alexie was reclaiming the Blues music for the Native Americans as he suggests that the Blues were actually created by horses (whom Big Mom taught to sing) when after the slaughter of the horses "the song" [they sang] "sounded so pained...
Compare/Contrast movie "smoke signal" with the book "The lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven . In the movie, Smoke Signals, two men from the Coeur d"Alene Indian Reservation, take a journey to Arizona. ... the reservation radio deejay tells his American Indian listeners as ``Smoke Signals'' opens. ... The difference between the movie and the book is that, in movie Victor and his mother are alone where as in the book it is said that there is a council of indian who support them. ... the reservation radio deejay tells his Americ...