This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona

A earthda Sehdev 03/19/2013 Setting Essay In Sherman Alexies This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona, a young man named Victor finds out that his father has passed, but cant afford to travel from Spokane to Phoenix, especi every(prenominal)y after the fact that he had just lost his subscriber line at the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The first setting in Spokane describes what Victor and other Indians go through on the reserve, this cultural aspect is actually elicit because nobody knows what others go through and how tough their lives may actually be.Victor asks the tribal council if he can borrow money from the tribal council until he gets the assets that his father left over(p) for him. All they can offer him is $100, which he agrees to obtain. Victors mother barely has enough money to help him out and his family doesnt really bear on in touch with him. Victors old childhood friend Thomas Builds-The-Fire hears about his issue and offers to help only under the condition that he can tag along. Thomas is a storyteller on the reserve, who everyone thinks is weird and nobody wants to listen to because he tells the same story over and over again.Victor agree to let Thomas help him and let him ride along. On the flight to Phoenix, Thomas and Victor were sitting next to a woman, who was flexing her body in all sorts of directions. Thomas embarrasses Victor by asking her questions and talking during the whole flight, even though she did turn out to be a nice woman. Once they landed, they got a taxi to the trailer where Victors dad lived. Walking into the trailer was a little hard for the two of them because Victors dad had passed past in the trailer and was not found for over a week.They describe that Arizona is over one-hundred degrees during the summer, so I can only imagine the mephitis that came out of the trailer. Victor told Thomas that he didnt have to help but he still insisted. After they had retrieved all the belongings that Victor matte was worth keeping, they put their stuff in the pickup truck that his dad left behind and headed home. They traveled through Nevada describing how they didnt see any wildlife and leave out of water. It just so happened that when Victor asked Thomas to drive, he ends up running over the first animal that they see in Nevada. After that, Thomas opinionated that he should drive again.When they get home, Victor thanks Thomas for his help and gives him half of his dads ashes because they were all like family. Thomas tells Victor that he is going to take the ashes to Spokane Falls, where Thomass father had found Thomas and brought him back to the reserve. After they got back and said their good-byes, they both knew things would end up going back to the bearing they were before. Victor found himself wondering where all the ties of the community went and the sense of the community. The setting in this story is just background, I dont think that in that location was much described about where they were or what the surroundings were.