Alexie talks about storytellers being liars and when they tell stories they blur the truth. I agree with this. Throughout the ages, all the folktales and fairytales we know were blurred to the situation they were being told. For example, sometimes little red riding hood doesn’t get eaten by the wolf and sometimes she does. I think the role of the stories in the movie are showing the world that we’re not really different. As people we believe and act on the same grounds of situations. Just because it was a story about Native Americans it wasn’t a story that no one who wasn’t Native American could relate to. I know that I could relate to the story in some way.
Also, I think stretching stories is a way of us coping with problems in the world. Such as Thomas in the movie. Alexie’s way of showing us we’re not different is clever. Even though he uses it in a stereotypical way, if we think about it, it really isn’t different from parents telling their children about little red riding hood or Cinderella. We associate storytelling with native Americans but we do it too.
