Comparing The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven

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W.E.B Dubois described an idea of double consciousness in his writing The Souls of Black Folk. Since then many other authors have used this idea in their stories to help develop characters, set the mood, or even use it to create a conversation for the readers of their stories. Alexie used this idea in the story The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, with his character Victor. Before we can look at other authors use of Dubois idea of double consciousness we have to decide what exactly its meaning is by breaking it into parts and examining them. “...this sense of always looking at one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity”(Dubois,2). Looking at this quote we see Dubois is describing how they have to
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