The Protagonist Victor in “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” by Sherman Alexie

Victor In the absolute first sentence of Sherman Alexie's â€Å"This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,† you can expect that the fundamental character, Victor, is confronting a hard life. In addition to the fact that he lost his employment, he likewise lost his dad to a coronary episode that day. The story tells the excursion of Victor and an old companion, Thomas Builds-the-Fire, making a trip to Phoenix to get his dad's remains, pickup truck, and cash from his bank account. Victor didn't have any cash and neither did any other person living on the booking, â€Å"Who does have cash on a reservation, with the exception of the cigarette and firecrackers salesmen? (page 275) Victor needs to go to the innate committee for cash, yet they are additionally low on reserves and can just give him one-hundred dollars. Thomas is considered the town’s untouchable and he is the just one ready to support Victor. Victor proceeds to state that he used to be companions with Thom as until they were around fifteen and afterward Victor walked out on him since every other person thought he was strange. He likewise discusses their adolescence and the recollections they share and the way that Thomas thought about Victor’s father needing to leave before it at any point occurred. Once, when they were seven years of age, when Victor’s father despite everything lived with the family, Thomas shut his eyes and revealed to Victor this story: â€Å"Your father’s heart is powerless. He fears his own family. He fears you. † (page 275). Thomas winds up giving Victor the remainder of the cash he needs, yet just if Victor permits Thomas to come. The creator never truly gives any physical characteristics, however you realize he is an Indian, doesn't have a great deal of cash, simply lost his dad, and lives on a reservation.The creator doesn't exceptionally disclose to you how old Victor is. There is no notice of some other family other than his mom, â€Å"†¦and the remainder of his family didn’t have any utilization whatsoever for him. † (page 275) Even however Victor’s father didn't have a major influence in his life, â€Å"there still was a hereditary agony, which was prospective torment as genuine and prompt and a messed up bone. † (page 275) Victor is a dynamic and round character since he gradually starts to change all through the story. Victor is ceaselessly griping about Thomas or ridiculing him.When they are on the plane and Thomas is conversing with the athlete, â€Å"Victor was prepared to leap out of the plane. Thomas, that insane Indian narrator with ratty old meshes and broken teeth†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (page 278) I feel that Victor is to some degree embarrassed about his Native American foundation since he would not like to turn out like Thomas. Over the span of their excursion, Victor starts to acknowledge Thomas and comprehend him more. At the point when Victor consents to tune in to only one of Thomas’ stories, â€Å"Just one time when I’m recounting to a story some place, why don’t you stop and listen?Thomas inquired. Victor waved his arms to tell Thomas that the arrangement was good,† (page 282) the peruser starts to see the new, all the more tolerating Victor. The old Victor would be excessively terrified of others' thought process him to stop and tune in to Thomas recount to a story, however now he acknowledges what his identity is and furthermore who his cousin Thomas is. â€Å"Victor hushed up for quite a while. He looked his psyche for recollections of his dad, found the great ones, found a couple of awful ones, considered the whole, and grinned. This is another defining moment in the story since this is the place Victor at long last acknowledges his relationship with his dad and finds a sense of contentment. â€Å"This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona† shows the genuine estimation of companionship. In the late r piece of their relationship, Victor was a downright terrible companion to Thomas, yet Thomas has been there for Victor so often all through their adolescence, and even since they are grown-ups. Despite the fact that Thomas was not genuinely by Victor’s side, he was there the entire opportunity standing by to come to Victor’s rescue.The story goes to and fro to show how Victor and Thomas were once companions. Thomas even made an arrangement with Victor’s father to look out for Victor, â€Å"But he said I needed to keep an eye out for you as a component of the arrangement. † (page 279) Victor is in the red to Thomas and even gives him a portion of his father’s remains. Before the finish of the story, Victor at long last understood the genuine significance of kinship with his own cousin Thomas, and that every one of those different folks that ridiculed him for being companions with Thomas when they were youngsters were false friends.At the finish of the story Victor acknowledges how destructive he has been to Thomas when in actuality; Thomas was the one in particular who remained by Victor’s side and consequently â€Å"all Thomas had ever needed from his entire life,† (page 282) was for somebody to simply stop and hear him out recount to one of his accounts. I think Victor turned into a man toward the finish of the story. He at last figured out how to acknowledge Thomas, his relationship with his dad, and his Native American legacy.