A Drug Called Tradition Summary

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Book Review: A Drug Called Tradition
In Sherman Alexie’s book called “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” is the chapter called “A Drug Called Addiction.” This short story has three main characters, Victor, Junior and Eccentric Thomas-Build-the-Fire who pays to host a huge party upon benefiting from Washington Water Power who compensated him money for putting electricity poles on his inherited land. Victor and Junior, who are great friends, decide to go for some magic mushrooms on the shores of Benjamin Lake. As they drive down the lake, they find Thomas by the roadside and they ask him to join them. Victor asks Thomas to describe what he sees on the mushrooms he gives him. Alexie’s writings explain the difference between the real Native American Indians back in a period of 20 years ago and the modern Native American Indian in the present day. The aim of this article is to explain how the characters’ personal and cultural background influences their actions compared to our current situation and draw conclusions.
In this character, Alexie ensured that the “The Real Indians” were explored. Nevertheless, his characters maintain a strong tie with their Native American Indian traditions. Alexie’s stories explain how it is complex nowadays for anyone trying to be a Native American Indian and at the same time keeping the sturdy sense of their ancestors who were “The Real Indians” (20). The same situation applies to me. As a traditional Chinese woman who would be happy to keep Native Chinese tradition, I find it out to cope with every aspect. I listen to different music and like traveling to different places, and thus I am unable to remain a total conservative of the Chinese tradition though I love it. Nevertheless, I do not accept defeat in my efforts of lasting a Native Chinese.
In Alexie’s passage, “A Drug Called Tradition,” he demonstrates applying varied points to explain how their lifestyles and experiences vary when compared to those of their ancestor’s. In Alexie’s text, the passage “There are things you should know,” is very vital in explaining his key example for sharing his various stories. His prime goal is to show the differences in Native American Indian culture in today’s context when compared to yesterday’s Native American Indian cultures. He uses this stand-out passage to convey the context of how Native American Indians nowadays grow up while in the skeletons of their long gone ancestors. Regardless of how life has tried to bring changes to them and new practices emerging, these people will never escape who they were once upon a time. For me, I accept the difference in the lifestyles and practices between my generation and our ancestors; I don’t feel the skeletons pulling me and my new lifestyle back. I enjoy traveling, listening to trending music and I believe in freedom of people. I love my tradition, but I also believe people should be free to choose their practices and go anywhere in this world. The world of feeling trapped in the ancestral skeleton is over.
Sherman Alexie is fond of using figurative lan...