Flight By Sherman Alexie : A Cruel World Through The Eyes Of Zits

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.

As Donald J. Trump said, “The Theatre must always be a safe and special place”, and for once he is right, the Theatre is a special place place, where people and objects transform in front of our eyes. One element that helps make a play great, is if it effectively uses its sacred space. The definition of sacred space according to our lecture is, “A physical space that feels almost magical, sometimes it may transform or appear before our eyes.” Sacred space is not required to incorporate the entire stage either, it can just be certain parts of the play. I remember in reading the book The Lord of the Flies, that one of the boys when the world would get too intense for him, he would hide in a hole in a tree and calm down; that was his sacred space. Sacred spaces are used effectively throughout all forms of art. One item that is used frequently in safe spaces in the act of rituals. Our lecture definition of Ritual is, “Something that repeats. Each repetition feels the same and different at the same time”, kind of like how Star Wars The Force Awakens was basically just A New Hope. Joking aside Rituals are very important in literature, like for example in Lord of the Flies again, the kids would participate in ritual when they would kill a kid or a pig and chant “Kill the Pig, cut its throat, bash her in, drink its blood.” Throughout the four plays we watch the themes of Rituals and Sacred Space flowing through the veins of these stories, that carry the meaning of the works.

revenge. In the beginning of the story, Zits professed that he despised white people; knowing

Betrayal hits the most not when by a friend, but by a loved one. In the novel, Flight, by Sherman Alexie, a half Native-American half Irish teen calling himself Zits, struggles with moving from abusive foster home to the next while in the constant search for a real family, real parents. In the act of crime, Zits is shot which transports him into a cycle of different bodies portraying different themes that majorly affects zits life and understanding of the world. The scene in which Zits meets a boy named Justice develops the theme of betrayal by portraying Justice, who seems like a very wise, trustworthy friend, but ends up betraying Zits which changes his view of the world forever.

A distressing emotion aroused by impending evil and pain, whether the threat is real or imagined is described as fear. Fear is what William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies encompasses. By taking three major examples from the novel, fear will be considered on different levels: Simon’s having no instance of fear, Ralph’s fear of isolation on the island, and Jack’s fear of being powerless. Fear can make people behave in ways that are foreign to them, whether their fear is real or imagined. In response to fear, people may act defensively by attacking, fear can either stop one from doing something, or it can make one behave in an irrational erratic manner.

With each new people that Zits transform into, he began to understand himself and all the actions that he had faced in his past. After time travelling and being in the body of his father, Zits is back in his own body when he realizes that killing innocent people will not lead to a good path. He rushes out of the bank where is finds the one person he respects, Officer Dave and his partner in a diner. Zits begs Officer Dave to removes all of the guns from him because “No matter who tells you to do it. No matter how good or bad the reason. Maybe you’re supposed to believe that all life is sacred”. Officer Dave gave Zits a second chance on life to provide him the help he desperately needed. Zits now sits down with myself remark on his incredible accomplishments and the progress that he has made

One form Zits see’s of being in his enemy's shoes is when Zits is put into Gus. Gus is an indian tracker. He will do all he can to find and kill the Indians. “And even though I keep thinking, I want to be lost, I want to be lost, I want to be lost, I can't do it.

Do people fly away to hide from others? In the narrative Flight by Sherman Alexie an Irish and Native American orphan named Zits confused and traumatized by his all his misfortunes is used by a boy named Justice to commit a horrendous mass murder. Afterwards, he is transported into a different bodies, experiencing different times and viewpoints of the world. By experiencing these different viewpoints, Zits is able to learn how to stop hiding himself from the world when he is hurt, lonely, or betrayed. Learning this Zits is impacted by the revelation which helps him reveal the theme of how to stop hiding and let those who appreciate and love him into his life.

There once was a boy named Zits. He was half Native American, half Irish and completely parentless. He lived in many different foster homes until he eventually met a troubled youth named Justice, who filled Zits with ideas of violence until Zits opened fire on a bank. Subsequently, Zits was shot in the head and switched bodies throughout time and space. His journey continued as he was transferred through time and different individuals, all who related to his personality and had to make choices about violence. His story is one of self-discovery as he travels until he can return to himself and reverse his horrible actions in the bank. This story is the novel Flight by Sherman Alexie. In this novel, Alexie explores many complex themes, such as the effect of a father figure on one’s personality and how compassion can help heal a person’s soul. Throughout the novel, it is evident that Zits is strongly influenced by his parental figures or lack of them. In the beginning, he chooses to let his violent role models have total control over his version of right and wrong. After his journey of learning, he realizes that he has command over his thoughts and can choose what he believes. At the end, he also has positive role models, ones that won’t force him to be violent and care for him. Because of his change in role models and ideas, he becomes a more compassionate and empathetic person.

The book shows how many adopted children feels when they are grown up in different culture with different race. Many children are adopted, but some of them are glad to be adopted while others do not. Like Marcus, many adopted children go back to their country to find their biological parents while some do not even want to know about their origin. The book also express the pain of black people in the white community. Many people have faced several challenges because of their skin color some even bullied like Marcus, and he mentioned the challenges he faced because of his skin color.

After giving birth to her new daughter, it is clear that Kevin is only becoming more violent and hateful. Eva gets her daughter a guinea pig which she adores for a whole day before Kevin gets a hold of it. In time, the mother realizes that Kevin put the pet down the garbage disposal in hopes to distinguish his innocent sister’s happiness. As a final blow, Kevin splashes a chemical in her eye while they are alone and she loses her eye due to the incident. At this point, Eva tells her husband that Kevin is causing all of the problems the family is facing, including the harm done to the daughter. To no surprise, the husband rejects this claim and projects it back on to Eva, says that as she is the mother she “could fix it if (she) wanted to,” and it is “your fault for leaving the chemicals out.” This rejection of support from her husband and lack of empathy for the troubles that Eva has endured, allows their marriage to suffer dramatically. After the incident, Eva’s husband forces her to sit down with Kevin and assure him that nothing that has happened was his fault. She has a hard time doing this because she Eva stays quiet to her husband and tries to shelter and influence her daughter to be a perfect woman and not get caught in the danger of Kevin again. Eva feels guilt for her daughter being brought into such a sour life circumstance and pours everything she has into her daughter, trying to make her life better than what she has. “Mother’s wanted their daughters

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.

Homework assignment number eight, based on Sartre’s The Flies. Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, political activist, and literary critic. Sartre incorporated an existentialist theme to his play, The Flies.

“Kid wake up” is what Zits heard as he awakens. when he looks in the mirror he doesn’t see himself, but sees a another person. A man in the other room keeps calling him “Hank”. “that isn’t my name”, Zits says to himself. So Zits checks his wallet for an I.D, and as he finds it he sees that this Hank person is a FBI agent. As he steps out the door Zits see a sign that says “Red River Motor Inn”. when he see this sign he remembers the civil war in Red Rivers. As Zits tells his partner Arts about this war in 1975, Arts looks at him like he was a ghost and tells Hanks(Zits) that it is 1975. In Zits mind he thinks he is in hell because he remembers getting shot and dying. “Am i in hell” he ask. As a response Arts says “ i'm sorry, but i think your mind just snapped”. The next day Hank(Zits) wakes up in the hospital. Arts tells him that he passed out on the job and had been brought to the hospital. He falls asleep again and when we wakes up he doesn’t wake up in the hospital but in the middle of a indian camp. As he is looking around he see that he is a little boy indian. A man is waving at him to come over here. “thats probably this little boys father” says Zits. But he cant hear anything, and wonders why? Zits finally realizes that this is where the indians get slaughtered by the U.S cavalry soldiers. He was right they had came but they was out number and the indians. When he close his eyes an

After a lengthy wait for approval from her mother, Zikala-sa was finally given the opportunity to make a proper development for herself. Sadly, she is yet to find out how this program will not do her the justice that she so desires. Instead, we are given vivid imagery on some of her tragic experience quickly after she leaves her home and her highly concerned mother. Saying goodbye to everything she knew was also a farewell to the old Zikala-sa as she embarks on what she once though was so thrilling and gave her joy. Zikala-sa uses of Imagery becomes powerful as she begins thinking of the country of red