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A review of Indian Killer

Date Submitted: 01/20/2004 16:09:37
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 6 pages (1612 words)
Views: 75881

An Invincible Killer The Indian Killer was a spiritual incarnation developed due to years of abuse and mistreatment of Native Americans, and created through a ritualistic dance known as the ghost dance. There are many reasons I believe the killer is not a human and actually some supernatural entity, and after reading the book, I feel Sherman Alexie wants the reader to be left with this feeling. One reason is that the killer is never …

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…and towards other races that the killer may be. Alexie created dozens of people, and I feel this is to intrigue the reader and make you think of all the different possibilities that it could be. After carefully evaluating as many potential scenarios as possible, I believe the killer is a ghost, summoned by Indians conducting the ghost dance; and as more and more become part of it, more white people will perish from it.

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