Smoke signals paper

I think that may write my paper on the theme of fire in the movie, or the role that victors father played in the movie. If I was to use the latter as a topic I think my thesis would be how do people forgive their fathers. The only other thing i could think of would write on would be to compare the movie to Alxie's poem how to write a great american indian novel. That in it self could leed to some interesting topics.

Smoke signals part 2

For being an indepentant film I think somke signals is very well writen, and has a good production value. I like the fact that the movie balences the serious and comidic scenes in the movie very well. The movie doesnt get to serious or become to much like a comdey. I saw this balance in the scene were Victor cuts his hair and then drives with Thomas back to the rez. The beging of the scene is very tense because of what has just transpired in the scene befor it. This tension is relived when Thomas trys to tell the story of how Arnold took him to Dennys. I think that this would be a good movie to write a paper on because of all the issues that it address in it.

Smoke Signals part 1

Ok for this movie i have one main question. What is the significance of Victors dad cutting his hair and not letting it grow out any more? I can tell that it is important, but i have no clue to its true meaning. One thing that stood out to me was the way that they used the sterotypes to make jokes, about there history. The second is when the two girls ask if Victor and Thomas if they have there passports, and Thomas says that its the U.S why woudl they need a passport, and the girls responce was to say that the U.S off the reservation was just like another county. To me this shows the gap between Indian culture on a rez, and the culture of the gerneral population of the U.S

Alexie

In this story Alexie gives a very discriptive view of life on the "rez". This story like the poem from him we read shows only the negative aspects of life on the reservation. He shows how things like poverty, and alcoholism cause daily struggles for the people there. His writings of these things did not suprise me much, because we have talked about most of these things in class. Alexie has been one of my faviorte autors to read in this class, because I think that when he writes about the Indian culture and way of life it is more real to me because he himself is an Indain.

Fleur

Ok first of all I would like to apologize for not blogging in a couple of days.
Fleur as a story to me was one that was easy to read and easy to follow, but I still cant understand what the short story is about. The fact that it's diction is easy to understand and the story flows well really makes me wonder what i missed. I've read the story multipule times and i still cant figure it out.

How To Write the great american indian novel

In Alexies pome how to write the great american indian novel he makes many good points about the template of how writers make Indian novels. When he talks about the Indian as a hero and how he must be a half breed, and must be from a horse culture in my mind it made me think of the movie Hidalgo. In that movie the writers did follow most of the things that Alexie said. The main character was a half breed from a horse culture, his grandmother was a tragic indian figure, he had a secret and it was slowly revealed, and when he had moments of introspections he was always alone. This movie was a big hit and got nominated for a couple of awards. So this lends credince to the claim that Alexie makes in the title.

Cowboy

I think that the diologe at the beging of this short story make it a little hard to read and follow, but I think that it also makes the story more beliveable. The choice of languge that the author uses makes the speaker sound as if he is uneducated. This story remindes me of a good friend that of mine that owns cattle he descibes his cores and what he does in much the same way. This story gives the reader a good idea at what modern day cowboys do every day.