er. She could not handle it.However, she was not alone. The Indian in Sherman Alexies The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is another example of someone with high expectations put on by his people and then fails and ends up mediocre. The story is about an Indian who leaves his tribe in hope of being the one who becomes successful, the one who is able to overcome everything and succeed in America. He is the one who was better then everyone else in his tribe. The Indian maybe didnt want to be what everyone asked of him; maybe he just wanted to be a regular Indian. All this pressure is put on him because his people feel that in America you could be anything you want to be. His mother also put enormous amounts of pressure on him.What are you going to do with the rest of your life? she asked, Dont know, I said, And normally, for almost any other Indian in the country that would have been a perfectly fine answer. But I was special, a former college student, a smart kid. I was one of those Indians who was supposed to make it, to rise above the rest like a *censored*ing eagle or something. I was the new kind of warriorIn the end he just ends up being mediocre, maybe thats all he wants to be. Maybe all he wants to do is watch TV all day searching for The answers in the game show and soap opera. His culture will not accept that. They want him to succeed in the white mans world but he fails in the white mans world. Their culture would not accept him, always questioning his every move. Everything he does is always looked at carefully. White Americas image of an Indian is not pretty. But he did not think much of the other culture either. He looked at White America and thinks of it like a war between cowboys and Indians. He dreams of these images In one dream, she was a missionarys wife and I was a minor war chief. We fell in love and tried to keep it a secret. But the missionary caught us *censored*ing in a barn and shot me. As I lay dying,...
