A Person's Identity In The Book Flight

Change in character does not come out of nowhere, but from the factors that are surrounding and involving around them. In the novel Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden, the antagonist, Elijah experiences changes while he sets off to war. He loses his Native identity and his friendship with Xavier. Thus, it’ll become evident that Elijah’s gradual loss of identity comes from a number of experiences. The changes are due to going to residential schools, journey through war, and his addiction to morphine.

Throughout a typical story or novel, a character often changes themselves after an adventure or conflict. They may change themselves through a variety of ways, like changing their own beliefs, or changing their financial or social status. This can be applied in two popular classics, “Bread Givers” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry”. Throughout the story, the protagonists managed to reform themselves after a course of events, even though they did keep some aspects of themselves. For Sara, enforcing her own beliefs over her father’s orthodox tradition allowed her to educate herself and be financially independent. Meanwhile, Huck managed to reinvent himself by developing a conscience. In both books, the main characters managed to reinvent

Religion, hobbies, beliefs, jobs, and social groups are just some of the few aspects that establishes one’s identity. The novel Flight written by Sherman Alexie showcases an Indian boy named Zits who time travels to different time periods while embodying numerous individuals. While in the different bodies, Zits is able to get a better sense of the person’s character by experiencing what they feel and what they intend to do. Through his time travels, Zits becomes aware of how one’s identity is defined. One’s identity can be determined by their ethnicity and social class; however, factors such as their thoughts, motives, and actions play a major role in establishing it as well.

Throughout people’s lives, many aspects determine the identities of individuals. Perhaps some would argue that many characteristics that a person has are not changeable and are given to him or her at birth. This is definitely true because some parts of one’s identity includes birth date and nationality. On the other hand, the majority of one’s characteristics and identity are shaped and changed after birth. These include “individual tastes, talents, values, and aspirations,” as Fey says.

Throughout the book “Flight” by Sherman Alexie the main character Zits is in search of where he belongs and why people have mistreated him throughout his life. In the midst of the action in the novel, Zits begins to experience character jumps, where he is trapped in the body of different characters. Each character jump that Zits has contributes to his growth into becoming more mature by allowing him to expand his perspectives and reflect on his own ideology. The most significant jumps are into the bodies of the little Indian boy, Jimmy the pilot, and his father. These jumps force Zits to develop his present ideas about revenge, violence, and forgiveness.

n the book Milkweed, written by Jerry Spinelli, identity plays a large role. Before Uri found him, Misha’s only identity was one given to him by the merchants he stole from- a no-good, petty thief. He did not even know his own name. The English Oxford Dictionary defines identity as one, the fact of being who or what a person is, or two, the characteristics that determine who or what a person or thing is. “In a cellar beneath a barbershop somewhere in Warsaw, Poland, in autumn of the year 1939,” (Spinelli 30) Uri gave Misha a new identity. This made up, make believe, imaginary story became not only Misha’s past, but his present. Misha “became [his] story,” (p. 31). He was thrilled to have a name, a background, an identity, and it was the first thing he told anyone.

Throughout time, everyone goes through changes, whether they’re big or small. Some people become a completely different person. In the story “Touching Spirit Bear” by Ben Mikaelsen, a boy named Cole changes his whole attitude towards others. Cole becomes a different person at the end of the story. Cole Matthews has a dramatic change of heart. Cole changes when he had to soak in the freezing pond, carry the ancestor rock and dance “the dance”. He also changes when he invites peter to the island, he also changes when peter accepts is apology later in the story. Everyone at sometime in their life will change.

But they’re not here and haven’t been for years, so I’m not really Irish or Indian. I’m a blank sky, a human solar eclipse.” Zits character is unable to connect with others or express emotion as a normal human being, because without a way to properly identify himself, it’s as if he is not living, able only to travel through time and live through the minds and bodies of others. In one of his time traveling experiences we see Zit encountering emotions and understanding the importance of connections. “I can feel his happiness. It makes me happy” (p. 116). After Zits is able to time travel and gain knowledge about native customs, family connections, and have the ability to experience emotion, he begins to understand his own identity. At the end of the novel Zits is able to grasp the importance of being true to yourself and embracing who you are, despite what the world around you conditions you to think. “I know that the world is still a cold and cruel place. I know that people will always go to war against each other. I know that I am a betrayer. But I’m beginning to think I’ve been given a chance… ‘Michael,’ I say. ‘My real name is Michael” (p. 181).

One factor that could change melinda identity is how her parents fight at home. Melinda's parents fighting is a major factor in her identity.this is because melinda's relationship with her parents is not very strong. Which means that there is int a trust or bond between her parents so she might feel as if she has to deal with everything on her own. If melinda and her parents dont go to counseling or

Zits uses a distinctive naming system when he is unaware of a character’s real name. Zits’ method of naming characters reveals how comfortable he is talking about them. He bases most of his names on appearance. For instance, Zits sees a young Indian boy while he is in the body of Gus and he observes that the Indian “can’t be more than five years old” and “he holds a bow” (pg. 59). Zits then refers to this character as “Bow Boy” for the remainder of the book (pg. 59). Zits uses this method for naming almost every character he meets. Characters that he likes are given names such as “Small Saint” while characters he feels anger toward often remain unnamed (pg. 61). For example, Zits’ mother, father and grandfather are never mentioned by name. Zits’ method of naming also reveals how he feels about himself. “I’m ashamed that I look like a bag of zits tied to a broomstick” (pg. 9). Therefore, his name reveals how he

In The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, Johnny and Ponyboy dyed their hair and ran away to change their identities because of a negative decision that they made. Interchanging identities is more common than we think. In a humorous movie such as Ace Ventura, a man changes his identity because he was hated for losing the superbowl for his team. Even deciding that you are not caring about your health may result to switching identities. “You may say ‘I am fat’ or ‘I am lazy’.

Who I am? Personally, I believe that a person’s identity can take only one of two routes. One, a person’s identity can change within that person’s life. Who I am now, is not necessarily who I was when I was younger. Experience can and will likely modify our identities. Therefore, experience can solidify our personal identification or it can weaken our personal identification. And as such, individuals and their perspectives are always evolving, or at the very least, they should evolve over time. Although there are some identities that evolve throughout one’s lifetime; there are some identities that remain consistent. Two, some identities cannot and will not change. So identities are socially and/or politically forces upon you, some identities are genetically assigned to you, and some you choose to keep. No matter the reason or reasons, these identities have been and will be consist within your lifespan. But, how you deal with them is up to you as an individual.

The novel “Flight” was a very interesting story about a young boy who seems to be lost in life and has an identity crisis which leads him down the wrong path and makes the poor decision to shoot up a bank. To have the boy come to the conclusion what he was doing was wrong Sherman Alexie sends him to different places and times to show teach him something more, almost like the Scrooge and the many ghosts he encounters in “A Christmas Carol”. I will discuss a few of his “flights” analyzing each flight and his journey from Zits to Michael through emotional encounters and tough lessons.

An identity defines a person’s life on who they are. We do not get to choose our identity; our identity chooses us. Whether one doesn’t get to choose their identity, it is important to be appreciative of ones identity. In the novel The Human Stain by Phillip Roth, identity is displayed through Coleman Silk actions. Coleman Silk a man that made decisions in his life such as making a racial comment while teaching, lying about his race, and having an affair. In all, he was trying to find a new identity in search for power. In results of his life decisions, Coleman Silk lost his original identity that would dawn on him forever.

The question is, which of these identities will I present, which of them will I develop and how do I realize other persons´ identities? In the novel “The English patient” both of the above mentioned identities can be discovered within all the expressingly dynamic characters. If we take Hana as a first example we might simply say that she is a canadian nurse aiding injured soldiers during the second world war. This statement can be referred to as social identity – it is the way Hana behaves within society. Her personal identity, however, is much more subtile and not that easy, neither to discover, nor to understand. The same, of course, applies to the other characters, especially to the English patient, whose rediscovery of identity is the focus of this novel and mainly dealt with. His story of identical background is told in flashbacks, as he