Abstract
The present paper is an attempt to discuss monism in Tommy Orange’s There There by using selected concordance occurrences. Monistic philosophy rejects the post-modern concept of pluralism and instability. Using the Antconc toolkit, the concordance of the terms such as story, history and its plurals too were found and the relation of these words to the signs, situations, characters and themes was tested for textual monism. In addition, if these words help to make the novel a coherent whole, the concordance plots of those words have also been closely studied. The choice of the text for these words was due to the author's own argument that the story of the urban Native American is to be considered within the context of its histories. Despite the fact that characters seem to be fractured 'stories' under the influence of their violent history, phrases that exist in multiple ways, incidents and themes seem to serve as links and turning points to maintain a connected and coherent overall narrative about the urban Native American community.
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