The Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger
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The narrator of the story is a Native American man, who works at a high school exchange programme. He lives in solitude among strangers trying to find an identity fitting both the Indian and the white society.
His dreams take him back to a battlefield where Indians and whites are fighting and killing each other. But the battle doesn't stick to his dreams only, it continues in the real life as well. One of the things that reflects this is his relationship to his white girlfriend from Seattle.
This battle is neither violent nor bloody, and the weapons are replaced with harsh, painful words, but sometimes a hateful word can hurt more then a punch in the stomach. Although he loves his girlfriend and vice versa, they …show more content…
"I've read similar accounts of that kind of evil in the old West". Maybe that's why he vents his rage on his girlfriend, and the fight between Indians and whites becomes a fight between him and her. It seems like the historical persecution of the Indians is affecting their relationship, although it's something that has happened more than a century ago, and none of them have participated in the persecution nor been persecuted.
Conversely, his girlfriend doesn't feel hate and anger, but has prejudice towards Indians, which can be seen in the statement: "You're just like your brother", she'd yell. "Drunk all the time and …show more content…
Many movies and novels over the years have shown Indians in a negative light. In the earlier Hollywood films Indians were portrayed as savages, war-seeking people who brutally scalped their opponents. Their opposites were of course the cowboys, who were the good guys. The two parts don't have compassion with another, and although the cowboys were portrayed as the good guys, we often here statements like: "the only good Indians are dead Indians".
Even though the Indians were shown as dangerous warriors, it always seemed that no matter how many Indians were against a group of cowboy, the cowboys would always win. The Indians were inferior to the whites in these films, mostly because most of the films were taken from the point-of-view of the whites who were being attacked by the Indians.
But the way Indians have been portrayed in movies over the last 20 years has changed. Westerns from the early 90ies like: "Dances with Wolves" and "The Last of the Mohicans", show the humanistic side of the Indians instead of portraying them as savage, hostile and beast-like
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The narrator of the story is a Native American man, who works at a high school exchange programme. He lives in solitude among strangers trying to find an identity fitting both the Indian and the white society.
His dreams take him back to a battlefield where Indians and whites are fighting and killing each other. But the battle doesn't stick to his dreams only, it continues in the real life as well. One of the things that reflects this is his relationship to his white girlfriend from Seattle.
This battle is neither violent nor bloody, and the weapons are replaced with harsh, painful words, but sometimes a hateful word can hurt more then a punch in the stomach. Although he loves his girlfriend and vice versa, they …show more content…
"I've read similar accounts of that kind of evil in the old West". Maybe that's why he vents his rage on his girlfriend, and the fight between Indians and whites becomes a fight between him and her. It seems like the historical persecution of the Indians is affecting their relationship, although it's something that has happened more than a century ago, and none of them have participated in the persecution nor been persecuted.
Conversely, his girlfriend doesn't feel hate and anger, but has prejudice towards Indians, which can be seen in the statement: "You're just like your brother", she'd yell. "Drunk all the time and …show more content…
Many movies and novels over the years have shown Indians in a negative light. In the earlier Hollywood films Indians were portrayed as savages, war-seeking people who brutally scalped their opponents. Their opposites were of course the cowboys, who were the good guys. The two parts don't have compassion with another, and although the cowboys were portrayed as the good guys, we often here statements like: "the only good Indians are dead Indians".
Even though the Indians were shown as dangerous warriors, it always seemed that no matter how many Indians were against a group of cowboy, the cowboys would always win. The Indians were inferior to the whites in these films, mostly because most of the films were taken from the point-of-view of the whites who were being attacked by the Indians.
But the way Indians have been portrayed in movies over the last 20 years has changed. Westerns from the early 90ies like: "Dances with Wolves" and "The Last of the Mohicans", show the humanistic side of the Indians instead of portraying them as savage, hostile and beast-like