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Laughing Boy

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Laughing Boy	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Laughing Boy is a 1930 novel by Oliver La Farge.It is set among the Navajo people of the American southwest, circa 1915. Laughing Boy is a young Navajo man who grew up in an era where it was still possible for a Navajo to live with little contact of white folks. At a dance, he meets an enchanting young woman named Slim Girl. Laughing Boy is enchanted with her. Soon they are married, despite the opposition of his family, who point out that she was educated by "Americans" (white people) and that she does "the worst thing" for them (that is, she's a prostitute).Slim Girl, as it turns out, was in fact taken away from her home and educated in white schools, and for a time she was a prostitute. Largely because of all that she is determined to get away from white people and live as a true Navajo once again. She views Laughing Boy as a way for her to get back to her roots and her people—but she's keeping a big secret.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Oliver La Farge was an anthropologist who studied the Navajo for years and had a working knowledge of the Navajo language.
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Laughing Boy / int_254fb9cb	comment	Anticlimax: How the plot thread about Slim Girl's adultery ends. Laughing Boy catches her with her white lover. The white man runs off, but not before Laughing Boy shoots him in the arm with an arrow. Slim Girl asks Laughing Boy for forgiveness, explaining that she was bleeding the white man for money as a way to punish all white people...and he forgives her, and that's it.
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Laughing Boy / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: "With a desperate effort he woke, sitting up, gasping with relief." That's how Laughing Boy wakes up after a nightmare in which the Navajo gods are coming to kill him.
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Laughing Boy / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Red Man, another Navajo who is present in the early parts of the novel as a rival to Laughing Boy, who tells Laughing Boy's family of his marriage to Slim Girl. After that he disappears from the narrative until the end, when he sees Laughing Boy and Slim Girl together, and in a fit of rage kills her.
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