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Indian Killer
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Indian Killer is a novel by Sherman Alexie.A serial killer terrorizes Seattle, hunting and scalping white men. The crimes of the so-called 'Indian Killer' triggers a wave of violence and racial hatred against the city’s Native American population. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Compare this to any other Sherman Alexie work. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Who the hell said Native American in The '70s? | |
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He Who Fights Monsters | |
| Indian Killer / int_2c1f1138 | comment |
He Who Fights Monsters: Where to begin? Marie assumes David is hitting on her out of some ethnic fetishism and is therefore a racist... because he's white. John wants to kill a white man as revenge for all the Indians who were killed. Mather thinks he's fighting racism, while being racist in his own way. Reggie wants revenge on his abusive father by killing white men. Aaron wants to avenge his brother by killing Indians. | |
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Mister Seahorse | |
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Mister Seahorse: John thought he was pregnant once. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: There's a whole chapter late in the book consisting of Truck spouting one after the other. | |
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Four Is Death | |
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Four Is Death: You can make a fun drinking game out of the number of times four is mentioned. | |
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Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu? | |
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Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: John and Marie are quite friendly. | |
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Women Are Wiser | |
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Women Are Wiser: Boo assumes Marie couldn't be the killer because she's a woman. | |
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| Indian Killer / int_5aa4ec8a | type |
Ambiguous Syntax | |
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Ambiguous Syntax: The title, Indian Killer, could be someone who kills Indians or an Indian who is a killer. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: "Had the Ghost Dance worked, you'd be dust." And of course the novel itself has one. To understand, John dies, but the killer, who until now has been implied to be John, is still on the loose. The easiest solution is that Reggie was the actual killer. | |
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Alternate Universe | |
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Alternate Universe: It tends to be of the kind in the ending to Neon Genesis Evangelion, a fantasy created by the protagonist. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: John is the killer. | |
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PsychoRangers | |
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Psycho Rangers: Though neither Reggie's gang nor Aaron's is really "good", they both commit hate crimes against the other ethnic group, they're both in groups of three, and they both ultimately have one guy say What Have I Become? and tell the police. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: The people who killed David did it over casino money, and then are killed over an illegal poker game. | |
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ProudWarriorRace | |
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Proud Warrior Race: When it's discussed as to what tribes drink which sodas, a Coeur d'Alene corrects the lecturer and says they just drink blood. | |
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Sociopathic Hero | |
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Sociopathic Hero: The killer at times. Many of his targets are people presented as scum, often racist. And not just racist against Indians; one watches Asian porn. | |
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Leitmotif | |
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Leitmotif: An odd example of a literary one. John's leitmotif is the sound of sandals walking on sand. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: Alexie calls the book "a feel-good novel about interracial murder". | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Much of the book is such, but especially the Native American literature class. Truck Schultz is also a Take That! to conservative talk show hosts, especially since Truck only says such things for ratings. | |
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Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence | |
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Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: It's implied Father Duncan does this. | |
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A Nazi by Any Other Name | |
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A Nazi by Any Other Name: Truck starts talking about eugenics near the end of the book. He goes farther than Jensen's recommendation to pay people $100 for every IQ point below 100 in exchange for voluntary sterilization toward forced sterilization. | |
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| Indian Killer / int_d13eb235 | type |
Occidental Otaku | |
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Occidental Otaku: Done American-style. (Called "Twinkie" or "wannabe" colloquially.) Many, many well-intentioned white characters have a fascination with Indians. | |
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Start of Darkness | |
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Start of Darkness: The first few chapters are dedicated to this. | |
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Expy | |
| Indian Killer / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Reggie's father might be based on real-life South Dakota politician Bill Janklow, who is infamous in Indian country. | |
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Race Fetish | |
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Race Fetish: Inverted After he finds out that his girlfriend hates Indians, Reggie has angry sex with her for a week, for the sole purpose of the cosmic irony of her bearing an Indian child. Conversely John, upon finding a white man watching Asian porn, is disgusted by it. | |
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Native American and First Nations Media / int_6802d00f |
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