—Anonymous Sherman Alexie’s The Toughest Indian In The World is a story discussing people’s identity recognition under the backdrop of modern times. This story is more straightforward and easier to read compared to Samuel Beckett’s play Endgame. However, you would notice the air of mystery lingering around the story after reading it. I would say […]
Sherman Alexie
The Last Indian and the Toughest Indian
—Anonymous When I first read “The Toughest Indian in the World” by Sherman Alexie, I thought this is a monotonous story about an Indian’s experience. However, after getting the questions that why the author used first-person narration, I started to try to stand on the leading role’s place to think about the story, and I […]
Throughout the semester, the story …
— Elizabeth Nguyen Throughout the semester, the story, “The Toughest Indian in the World” written by Sherman Alexie made me feel uncomfortable intellectually and emotionally because of the sex scene of the narrator and a hitchhiker in the hotel room towards the end of the story. The narrator follows in his father’s footsteps to only […]
One of the pieces I didn’t really understand …
— Anonymous One of the pieces I didn’t really understand when I first read it was, “The Toughest Indian in the World” by Sherman Alexie. When I read it the first time, it didn’t really make sense to me. An Indian leaving his village going to live in the modern world ends up having sex […]
When I read “Toughest Indian in the World”…
—Anonymous When I read “Toughest Indian in the World”, the describe on the culture identities makes me feel very uncomfortable. In this article, the narrator picks up an Indian hitchhiker who makes a living fighting other Indians on reservations in illegal, bare-knuckle matches. To the narrator, he represents a modern-day warrior, a savior who can […]
