Sherman Alexie's This Is What It Means To Say, Arizona

The Role of Friendship and Its Effecting Nature Sherman Alexie’s Short Story “This Is What It Means to Say, Phoenix, Arizona” and the movie made about the short story, Smoke Signals, bring an insight to what life was like living on Indian reservation and what Indians like Thomas Builds the Fire and Victor had to go through. How does the role of friendship in the short story “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix Arizona?” and in the movie Smoke Signals work and how does it develop the way the story and movie go. The role of friendship in the short story comes into play when Thomas talks about ‘how he can lend Victor the money he needs but he must take Thomas with him and Victor says, “I can’t take your money I haven’t hardly talked to you in years and we’re not really friends Thomas says I didn’t say we were friends I said you just have to take me with you Victor says let me think about it” (875). This shows that these two

But between those things, there are flashbacks to when Victor and Thomas were Kids and Victor 's father had left. Thomas came up to Victor and said did your dad leave because he hates you and Victor beats up Thomas because Thomas was Provoking him and Victors Mother had to get Victor off Thomas. This Part of the movie shows That Victor and Thomas had the falling out and weren’t friends. Then, theirs was the bus scene where Victor was telling Thomas that he should stop wearing the suit and that Indians have like mean face and he should make that face and let his hair flow since that’s how a typical Indian wears their hair. When they got off the next stop Thomas went change into a cooler outfit and let his hair flow out. Victor waited for him and when Thomas came out they had bro moment which showed that these two Characters became somewhat