The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven - Prompts #3
Please read the rest of the collection (pg. 110-211)
1. Use a series of years (as in Jesus Christ's Half-brother...) as a frame work for a character or a series of characters. Try keeping your prose style as journalistic as possible. As an additional style challenge, end each year section with a distinct image that does not necessarily conclude the "chapter" - you'll notice in Alexie's story, he ends each section with a short concise declarative sentence. Try that.
2. Tell a story about someone telling a story. Change the story style as you go. Perhaps you may want to tell a sci-fi story, then a romance, then an action adventure story, then a realistic drama, etc. Play with tone and voice.
3. Write about your culture. What games or leisure activities do YOUR people like? Write about that.
4. Write about a domestic crisis.
5. Write about people at the edge, not over-the-edge, but people in a desperate situation in their lives -- it is important that you do not "kill or murder" them off. Make sure no one dies in the story or poem. Many people live lives of quiet desperation. Write about one of them.
6. Write a history of a character (or you). Organize it by school grade. Stop when you have 12 short vignettes. Each vignette should be highly imagistic (rely heavily on imagery) and poignant.
7. Write about Native Americans. If you are Native American, tell your own story. Use Alexie as inspiration. If you are NOT Native American, you can write an essay about how you felt about this book, Alexie's writing, or how your culture or family or community views Native Americans.
1. Use a series of years (as in Jesus Christ's Half-brother...) as a frame work for a character or a series of characters. Try keeping your prose style as journalistic as possible. As an additional style challenge, end each year section with a distinct image that does not necessarily conclude the "chapter" - you'll notice in Alexie's story, he ends each section with a short concise declarative sentence. Try that.
2. Tell a story about someone telling a story. Change the story style as you go. Perhaps you may want to tell a sci-fi story, then a romance, then an action adventure story, then a realistic drama, etc. Play with tone and voice.
3. Write about your culture. What games or leisure activities do YOUR people like? Write about that.
4. Write about a domestic crisis.
5. Write about people at the edge, not over-the-edge, but people in a desperate situation in their lives -- it is important that you do not "kill or murder" them off. Make sure no one dies in the story or poem. Many people live lives of quiet desperation. Write about one of them.
6. Write a history of a character (or you). Organize it by school grade. Stop when you have 12 short vignettes. Each vignette should be highly imagistic (rely heavily on imagery) and poignant.
7. Write about Native Americans. If you are Native American, tell your own story. Use Alexie as inspiration. If you are NOT Native American, you can write an essay about how you felt about this book, Alexie's writing, or how your culture or family or community views Native Americans.
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