Rhetorical Analysis Of Sherman Alexie 's ' The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight ' Heaven '

He uses to induce humor to disrupt the tension on what is happening during the scene. An example of this is when Owen is raised up in the air when he is younger. He hates it as he would always say “CUT IT OUT! I DON’T WANT TO DO THIS ANYMORE” (5). This is ironic since he wants Johnny to lift him up to practice the dunk. What is more ironic that he is lifted up to die. Owen is boost up in the air with a grenade in his hand so that the blast does not kill the Vietnamese children. John Irving is very satire when he is writing this book, having a kid hating being up in the air later dying up in the air to save those children from the blast. This is ingenious of John Irving since it disrupts the reader to think that Owen is actually God’s instrument since ever Owen Meany was little he is practicing his very purpose. Another prime example of irony is the character of Reverend Merrill. He is suppose to be a practice of Christ yet he doesn’t see the miracle that Owen Meany is. Reverend Merrill witnesses the events of Owens life and death, the baseball that he found in his desk. After theses events he still does believe that Owen Meany is a Christ figure but when Johnny Wheelwright comes up with a prank, he instant believes, and his faith is restored. This is very ironic since a mere prank made Reverend Merrill believe it was real while Owen’s miraculous miracles meant nothing to him.

Arizona prospector Daniel Boone “D.B.” Kyle, with his mule, Ghost, arrives at the trading post where he periodically buys supplies. Added since Daniel’s last visit, “Uncle Sam” enlistment posters and patriotic slogans are pasted on the storefront. A couple old-timers sit on a bench, gossiping about the recent suicide of a young man deemed unfit for service. Tidings of war don’t alarm Daniel, since war seemed eminent for quite some time.

“Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life; don’t make it wait any longer.”(Maraboli) When you make that decision in your life that you aren’t content with where you are, it finally clicks that you need to get up and make that change in your life. Giving yourself the power to go in any direction and being able to make the decision on how your attitude will affect your day. Knowing your self worth even at the lowest points in life that when you want to be great, you will be. It may not be easy to climb out of your lowest points because you start to make excuses for yourself on why you could never be happy again. Thinking that it just isn’t meant for you to be successful after the depressing times you have been through. Similar to, “Fight Song,” Rachel Platten wrote this song at her worst times in her life, but used it to remind her not to give up, that she believed in herself and still had fight left. The rhetorical devices used in Rachel Patton’s “Fight Song” are intended to reveal to the listener that to empower yourself, the listener needs to make those changes their life for their own happiness.

Chief Seattle questions the Americans on why they sell and buy land also treat it as if it is nothing. Chief Seattle explains that the Americans want power using personification. Chief Seattle says, “His appetite will devour the earth and leave behind only the desert.”(Paragraph 13). He gives ‘appetite’ a human ability which he uses to show how the Americans want power. That the Americans will take up everything the earth has offered and basically leave nothing. Some of his audience are the Americans and some Native Americans. He intended to evoke the Americans to get them to understand that the earth is not a selling product nor a place to mistreat. He wants the Americans to be able to see the Native American's point of view to understand

In 1944, the United States war effort in Europe was just starting to pick up. Even though the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor occurred just three years prior, the growing power of the Third Reich could not be ignored. During this time, France was already occupied by Nazi Germany and Hitler's war machine was on the path of conquering all of Eurasia. In an attempt to combat this immense threat, the U.S. formulated a plan to engage the German forces through an invasion of Normandy. This bloody offensive would be remembered in infamy as D-Day. Shortly before this violent clash of U.S. and German forces, the inexperienced men of the United States Third Army was given an encouraging and inspiring speech by the four star general George S. Patton.

In Reyes’s Los Angeles Times article, “Men Are Stuck In Gender Roles, Data Suggest” posted on December 26, 2013, she discusses that there are gender roles in today’s society that has been set and learned at a young age, that men do men things and women do women things but there’s a small percentage where it’s flipped upside-down. The context of this article can be misogyny or sexist, and focuses more towards the male audience with a smaller portion of women. Reyes’s exigence comes from her own research as the “census data and surveys show that men remain rare in stereotypically feminine positions”(Reyes Par. 3). Due to her excellent use of appeals, Reyes’s article is highly recommended for the PopMatters Persuasiveness Prize. Reyes supports her claim with ethos with her usage of good credible sources; logos, using inductive logic and by providing good statistics; and pathos, like the bandwagon appeal with an attempt to sway people away from the norm, and by providing stories from everyday folk on how they’ve encountered these stereotypes regarding gender roles.

In The Approximate Size of His Favorite Humor by Joseph L. Coulombe, American Indian Quarterly 26.1 (Winter 2002) Joseph Coulombe says Alexi “uses humor to reveal injustice, protect self-esteem, heal wounds, and create bonds. The function of humor changes from scene to scene, shifting to serve these myriad goals.” (Paragraph 2) an example of this seen in the book is when Jimmy and Norma have a verbal fight about Jimmy making jokes regarding his cancer, although Norma makes it clear to Jimmy that it is not appropriate to joke about that in front of her. She told Jimmy and that if he would try to make a joke about it again she would leave him.

The article goes on to say that, a lot of jokes do not translate very well, and sometimes, they do not translate at all, mainly due to the differences in social structure and cultural norms; what may be considered funny in one culture, may not be in another.” (Psychology Today, 2012)

Defining exactly what shapes ethnic identity in the United States is the hardest question I can imagine being asked. As a child born in the United States, I find this question so difficult because I have been exposed to a large variety of cultures within the small boundaries of my own family. This makes it very difficult to determine one, or even a few characteristics that define ethnic identity. In the case of many of these novels, the task of defining ethnic identity is not so complicated. The list of determinants that I believe to define ethnic identity includes language, geographic location, and tradition.

[in] a kind of personal tribalism that begins with two people, configurates around families, composes itself in extended kin and clan, and ends up defining a culture” (Lincoln 63).  In Tracks, the power of Native American humor to profoundly affect human experience is portrayed through the characters of Nanapush and Fleur.

Many believe his play to humor and writing betrays Indian “people by presenting them as clichés to be laughed" person’s name says hey "while other persona says he Avoiding to educate white readers and re instill cultural pride in Indian readers he actively works against such goals with his humor" . However I believe Sherman Alexie humor is central to

In Life lessons from an ad man, Rory Sutherland asserts that advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception rather than the product itself. In one particular example, Sutherland shares a story about the potato. Initially undesirable, Frederick the Great of Prussia seeks to rebrand the potato. He declares the potato to be a royal vegetable and grows them in his royal garden with soldiers guarding around the clock. The perception of the potato begins to change resulting in a thriving underground potato market.

In the short stories “A Drug Called Tradition,” “The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor,” and “The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore” collected in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, author Sherman Alexie uses humor to reflect the life on the Spokane Reservation. In “A Drug Called Tradition,” the story starts with a joke by having Thomas sit down inside a refrigerator in response to Junior’s comment as to why the refrigerator is empty. The Indians are having a party hosted by Thomas, who gets a lot of money from a corporation for leasing some of his land. Alexie’s three second selves, Victor, Junior, and Thomas, later go to the Benjamin Lake and use the drug that Victor brings with him. In “The

Humour has always had the ability as long as anyone can remember to bring people together and unify them to become closer and better acquainted. As humour developed over time different categories of humour appeared. Ethnic humour is one of the categories that was created decades ago and continues to be widely used in present day comedy. The concept of ethnic, racial, and gender humour is as sensitive a subject today as it has ever been; and yet there has never been such a prolific quantity of this humour as there is in current day society. It manifests in American culture's films and stand-up comedy routines, as well as on popular TV sitcoms. Ethnic humour is one of the only types of humour that can bring laughter and joy to people while

The inter-individual variability with gender and its connection to humor is probably one of the most discriminating topics to talk about. Since forever, men and women are like opposites. Even though men and women tend to get along with each other, it can clearly be see that there is a difference in the perception, production, and utilization of humor (Lambert & Ervin- Tripp, 1998). Most often our social structures are the areas that define the line between what men perceive to be funny as compared to women. As commonly assumed, there are basics such as our biological make-up and or genetic factors, but what defines the difference between sex and humor? (Aillaud & Piolat, 2012). The topics being explored in this paper will revolve around individual differences of gender, as well as, touching on sexist humor and rape and the effect it has on women.