The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

I thought this was a great story that illustrated not only the challenges of a Native Americans' struggle through an identity crisis but the struggles that anyone can go through with failure. while he was given a white boys education and the opportunity to be part of the white mans world, he was unsure about which world he wanted to live in. the discrimination and suspicion he faced along with the insecurity of success, drove him back in to the reservation he came from and into a depression from the sense of failure.

My favorite sentence in this story was after he lost to the white boy in basketball, ''The next morning I woke up tired and hungry, so I grabbed the want ads, found a job I wanted and drove to Spokane to get it". He was tired of failure and hungry for some sort of success, and he used the spur of the moment motivation to get himself out of his depression and move forward in his life. motivation and a drive for success

The Hills like white Elephants

I found the story very vague and the first time I read I had no idea what it was talking about. I read it 3 times til lI finally understood the story entirely.(I wasn't frustrated when I didn't understand it but I was confused which was why it was so much more rewarding when I did understand it) I thought it was kind of humorous the way the two character's conversation went around in circles, even though the subject they were discussing was anything but humorous, but these kind of conversations happen all the time where two people are discussing a very important topic but neither one wants to come out blunt out on the table and they just go in and out of the topic in a conversation.
I was disappointed with the way Jig came to the decision of going through with the abortion. She wasn't thinking of what was truly good for herself or the child but what was good for the guy. While he should be an important factor in making the decision, it should not have only been based on how he felt, but on how she felt and how the decision would effect their unborn child.