Alexie's goal is to communicate to the reader not to believe everything you read. He wants us to question and think deeply about everything we have read so far. Alexie does this through the details of his story. They are the details that separate the real writer from the fake one. Alexie proves that he is the real writer because he talks about the personal aspects of his fellow humans on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Alexie writes "my story, which features an autobiographical character named Thomas Builds, the fire who suffers a brain injury at birth and experiences visionary seizures in his adulthood." The details Alexie uses to communicate his personal knowledge of a specific situation. His diction and phrasing speak to understand the people he was speaking to