Fistfighting Against Discrimination

Fistfighting Against Discrimination
“There was another civil war, another terrorist bomb exploded, and one more plane crashes and all aboard were presumed dead. The crime rate is rising in every city with populations larger then 10,000, and a farmer shot his banker after foreclosure on his 1,000 acres” (17). In the short story “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfighting in Heaven,” Sherman Alexie focuses on the need to fit in, stereotypes, and Indian-white relations. I believe that Alexie is trying to illustrate to readers that the country has major issues that need to be addressed.
Alexie focuses primarily on people’s great need to fit into society. Through the development of the protagonist in the story, Alexie shows how out of place people feel when they do not fit society’s “norm.” The protagonist, for example, tells an officer who has just profiled him, “I wanted to tell him that I didn’t fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get ...