JE #1B

After starting to watch an episode of the Lone Ranger I realized I recognized the opening theme but I do not remember watching the show. All I had ever heard in relation to it was Sherman Alexie’s book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. The title name of the show is a focus on the white ranger man and his side companion who does not have a place in the name of a show which will be remembered. Lone Ranger shows Native Americans as all having the same perpetual grasp of English, as all sounding the name with the same tone. Enough to have some intelligence but never being able to reach the great intelligence of white Americans. The episode showed a white man as being the antagonist but it was the Native Americans who are shown as always inherently needing saving, always needing to be given food and supplies out of the greatness of the white American’s hearts. Tonto helps Lone Ranger but he is just a side story, not of much importance. I felt a relation to Speedy Gonzales with how Tonto is seen as the good Native American just as Speedy Gonzales is the good Mexican. Tonto is doing his part to help keep law and order and everything that Lone Ranger is fighting for because of course everything would be in chaos if white people did nothing to stop the savagery of the attacking Native Americans even if they have only newly arrived to these lands that the Native Americans have occuppied for generations. There are some parallels between Daffy Duck and Lone Ranger. They both take up home in lands that they or their ancestors are not from and seek to impose order. I am also questioning Tonto’s name and how the writers decided on it because it means idiot in Spanish. Speedy was the enemy of Daffy Duck and continually won while Tonto is the submissive companion of Lone Ranger.