Reservation Blues

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Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10

Themes

All Themes Race, Culture, and Identity Hope, Despair, and the Blues Alcoholism and Patterns of Suffering Storytelling, History, and the Spiritual Community, Friendship, and Love

Quotes

Characters

All Characters Thomas Builds-the-Fire Junior Polatkin Victor Joseph Chess (Eunice) Warm Water Checkers (Gladys) Warm Water Big Mom Robert Johnson David WalksAlong Father Arnold Betty Veronica Phil Sheridan George Wright Mr. Armstrong The-man-who-was-probably-Lakota

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Introduction

Plot Summary

Detailed Summary
& Analysis

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10

Themes

All Themes
Race, Culture, and Identity
Hope, Despair, and the Blues
Alcoholism and Patterns of Suffering
Storytelling, History, and the Spiritual
Community, Friendship, and Love

Quotes

Characters

All Characters
Thomas Builds-the-Fire
Junior Polatkin
Victor Joseph
Chess (Eunice) Warm Water
Checkers (Gladys) Warm Water
Big Mom
Robert Johnson
David WalksAlong
Father Arnold
Betty
Veronica
Phil Sheridan
George Wright
Mr. Armstrong
The-man-who-was-probably-Lakota

Symbols

All Symbols
Guitars
Horses

Theme Wheel

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Lorenz, Ben. "Reservation Blues." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 9 May 2016. Web. 17 Jan 2020.

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Lorenz, Ben. "Reservation Blues." LitCharts LLC, May 9, 2016. Retrieved January 17, 2020. https://www.litcharts.com/lit/reservation-blues.

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