Analysis Of Flying By Alice Miller

“Flying,” by Alice Miller is a complex story about a woman named Allie, who reminisces about a time spent when her cousin Mack taught her to fly when she was just a young girl. On different occasions when Mack visited, he would show her how to do new things. As Allie grew up she found herself thinking of the secret that Mack shared with her and how he told her not to tell anyone or she may get hurt. Allie longed for the feeling of flying, if she could just reach out and talk to Mack but too much time had passed. She dreams of flying in her sleep, not for long periods of time, but just enough to embrace that feeling she had years ago. She wonders if many people have experienced flying the way that she has and if she could fly by herself without Mack. One day, Allie tries to fly on her own and succeeds, soaring higher than she did with Mack. Before Allie knew it, she was flying through the clouds and around town. Now that Allie has experienced the feeling of flying again, more than ever she wanted to share with her kids. One night after the children were asleep she wanted to share her secret with her boys but instead chose her daughter. Miller suggests that when a person is afraid of doing something on their own, sometimes it just takes a little bit of courage to step out and let go of the things that could be holding a person back.

When a person is faced with an awful situation, it is all too easy to only see the negative. Flight by Sherman Alexie, focuses on this through the point of a young teen named Zits. Zits grew up in an abusive and unhealthy environment. (exsmples) When Zits turned fifteen, he met someone that calls themselves Justice who mislead Zits ino shooting up a bank. This leads to his death and a series of body shifts. These shifts make Zits reflect on his own identity and the actions he’s committed his life. By experiencing different stories/lives, Zits is able to learn that, even though there are bad things in the world, there are also many positives to go with the negatives.

Slave by definition is a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. That about sums up what slavery really is in our mind and is pretty much the definition that we all picture when we think about slaves and slavery. But this is not what slavery truly was within the antebellum time period. Most of the slaves had a whole different outlook on the way they viewed, and acted and while living in their unfortunate circumstances. This is one of the few things that will be discussed further on within this paper. The main concept of this paper will be to discuss slavery in three sections; these sections will be discussing the types of people who were enslaved, and the nature of their bondage in the first section. The

In the short story "Flight Patterns", Sherman Alexie describes how the protagonist, William, a Spokane Indian, struggles every day to escape the all too common stereotypes society places him under. This story takes place in Washington D.C. during the year after 9/11, which most likely justifies why racial profiling and stereotyping was extremely commonplace in the story around this time. It can be seen that Americans were brought closer together by this tragedy because they were banded by a common enemy who was not in fact American or even part of their culture at all, which made many, if not all Americans judgmental and paranoid against those who they considered to be of foreign descent or a threat to their safety. It is evident that throughout "Flight Patterns", Alexie employs a variety of different scenarios to ultimately show his readers that racial profiling and stereotyping is way too common in our society although it shouldn’t be, and if people really took the time to get to know one another, they 'd see that other people have substance and a story as well, and they 're not just what they simply appear to be.

Flight is a novel about a teenage Native American boy, named Zits because of his face, gets moved around from foster home to foster home, “crashing” through each one, and has closed his mind to the idea that some foster parents are trying to help him. Then, later in the book, after he shoots thirty or so people in a bank, is transported through time and different bodies, and learns how to turn his life around with the knowledge he acquires from what he sees and does in these different bodies. In one especially striking scene, Zits has traveled into the body of a young Indian boy at war. He wakes up in the middle of a large Indian camp. He then realizes that it is an old war camp, from the battle called “Custer’s Last Stand”. Zits remembers that in this battle the Indians prevailed against Custer’s cavalry. Then, as he stands in the middle of the camp, the father of the boy whose body he’s in comes over. Since Zits never had a real dad, the love this man is showing to him, even just something small, feels tremendous. Zits thinks as the man picks him up and hugs him, “As long as I’m this kid, this man is my father. And since I never knew my real Indian father, I feel like I’m going to explode. I want to hug this guy forever and forever” (64). This quote quite clearly shows that Zits needs someone to love him desperately, and that he will latch onto any small amount of affection he gets.

Why did they do slavery? In the story “The People Could Fly” by Virginia Hamilton is about slavery. The conflict is The Driver hit the babe on its back because Sarah didn’t have time to feed it.

In the folktale, “The People Could Fly” by VIrginia Hamilton, the intended audIence Is people who are enslaved and need a new hope to become free. I know this because the people were enslaved in the folktale an that one of them and a baby, flew and escaped slavery. There also were words about free or strong birds to support the idea of freedom.

Life can become dull, monotonous, unsatisfying and hard to endure. It is frequent for people to reach a point in their lives where they no longer have meaning, where they might feel like they have not achieved anything and their expectations have not been fulfilled, career or personal wise. These matters can produce a negative impact on a person’s self-esteem and confidence. Deriving in frustration and disappointment. In order to deal with this situation, some people look for a way out and attempt to compensate for what is lacking in the real world.

What I learned was that in order to keep an object floating it has to have enough force to lift up the object. For a airplane to fly air pressure has to be more on the bottom than on the top to keep it in the air. Airplanes have to have a certain shape to fly in the air like birds. When you point the wing in a certain direction it would ether create lift or head straight down. Of course a airplane needs thrust to fly but it needs to have a perfict shape to fly.

In chapter 15 of Foster’s novel, he describes how flight or the action of flying is able to represent something within literature. Anybody in literature that is “suspended in the air, even briefly,” is usually a superhero, a ski jumper, a fictional character, and others. Foster states that humans always imagine of flying and thought of the idea of it even in early times. He shows this by using the Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus. Daedalus was put as a prisoner in a maze along with his son. In order to escape Daedalus created wings and decided to fly out. Icarus was so intrigued about the flying and was so curious about it that it had actually ended up killing him. Foster shows us with this allusion that the action of flying is still a “wonder” to humans even to this day. Foster then describes what flying actually represents within

Practical intelligence is that application of intelligence in our real life. It is force others, interpret and follow the instructions in the situations. As a result, practical intelligence can make people use knowledge to solve problem and achieve their goals (Gladwell 101). When highlight four ways in this semester, first of all, I should attend the course because the classes make me improve practical intelligence. Secondly, I have to do my best for my all assignments. This is one of the best way to apply the practical intelligence in my real life. The third one is participating in group project because it can share my practical intelligence to members and received other students’ practical intelligence and this activity good for developing my practical intelligence. Last one is reviewing the class. This is because it is the best method for all exams and during this activity, I can carry out practical intelligence.

“The fathers may soar and the children may know their names.” This was the basis of Milkman’s discovery of his past, which he would learn about in time. In Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon, Milkman goes through the early, adolescent, and middle stages of his life with little faith in himself, for he cannot fly, nor does he know flight’s true meaning. Milkman journeys through his life being selfish and vain because he has yet to discover his true identity. As Milkman grows, the more he experiences and encounters alone and with others. Not every experience he obtains is weighted with the same significance as others, but each helps progress him through his self-discovery to find his own way of flight. As Milkman discovers the past about

Up, up, and away! The toy helicopter soared above Orville and Wilbur Wright. Rubber bands twirled the blades of the cork and bamboo toy shooting toward the ceiling. They held their breath, as they tracked it with their eyes. Then it fluttered down, down, down.

Human beings have a need for self-actualization that involves growing towards courage, kindness, knowledge, love, honesty, and unselfishness. When we fulfill this need, we feel serene, joyful, filled with zest, sometimes euphoric, and generally happy. When we act contrary to our need for self-actualization, we experience anxiety, despair, boredom, shame, emptiness and are generally unable to enjoy ourselves. (Singer 327-328).

In addition, there is fulfillment and satisfaction in your life because you develop optimistic expectation of the future, take a steady approach to life, believe in your dreams, and together increase your level of enthusiasm towards your daily goals.