Turning Point Of The Book Flight

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 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.

The Kite Runner is the first novel of Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. It tells the story of Amir, a boy from Kabul, Afghanistan, whose closest friend is Hassan, a young Hazara servant. Novel turns around these two characters and Baba, Amir’s father, by telling their tragic stories, guilt and redemption that are woven throughout the novel. Even in the difficult moments, characters build up to their guilt and later on to their redemption. Their sins and faults alter the lives of innocent people. First, Amir and Baba fail to take action on the path to justice for Ali and Hassan. Moreover, Amir and Baba continue to build up their guilt due to their decisions and actions. Although Amir builds up more guilt than Baba throughout the novel, he eventually succeeds in the road to redemption unlike his father. After all, Amir and Baba have many chances to fix their atonements but Baba chooses not to and Amir does. Baba uses his wealth to cover up his sins but never atone himself while Amir decides to stand up and save Sohrab and finally finds peace. Amir and Baba’s reaction to sins essentially indicate their peace of mind and how they react to guilt and injustice.

One major theme that is evident in The Kite Runner is that scars are reminders of life’s pain and regret, and, though you can ease the regret and the scars will fade, neither will completely go away. We all have regrets and always will, but though it will be a long hard process we can lessen them through redemption. The majority of The Kite Runner is about the narrator and protagonist, Amir. Almost all of the characters in The Kite Runner have scars, whether they are physical or emotional. Baba has scars all down his back from fighting a bear, but he also has emotional scars from not being able to admit that Hassan was also his son. Hassan is born with a cleft lip, but for his birthday Baba pays for it to be fixed, which left a small scar above his mouth. Hassan also has emotional scars from being raped. The reader is probably shown the emotional scars of Amir the most. Amir has emotional scars because he feels that he killed his mother, and also because his father emotionally neglects him. In the end of the novel, Amir receives many physical scars from getting beaten up by Assef, when rescuing Sohrab. Though scars will never go away and are a reminder of the past, not all scars are bad.

Also the conflict that was announced in the parking lot where the bad older character was hit with a tire iron and the three young teenage boys were fighting with this man. For the most part the narrator consistently talks about his wild life style. He chose even though he was from a well off family and he didn't have to take that road, but we all have the choice and every generation goes though it. The narrator also tips of his rebirth and baptism in the lake while he was running from his fight that he just encountered with the tire iron he trips over a body floating in the lake. All in all I thought this story was super fun to read and relate to in the sense of being wild and ruthless, but the song that came along with it was pretty awsome and was fun to listen to and get a feel for the time period and style back in the day where it was good to be

“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.

“Flying,” by Alice Miller tells the story of woman reminiscing on the time that her cousin taught her how to fly when they were kids. It begins with the main character, Allie, flying in the air with her cousin, Mack, when she was six years old. Allie has many questions and Mack tells her that all boys can fly and instructs her to not tell anyone that she knows this secret. He also tells her not to ever try to fly without him and compares this secret to the myth about Prometheus giving the God’s fire to man and being punished for it. As the years went by, Allie wonders if she would ever fly again and even doubts if the memory was real. She becomes a wife and a mother to two sons and a daughter but still wonders if flying is possible. One night, she decides to test her memory and tries to fly out of her backyard. She slowly ascends just as she did when she was young but even higher. Over the next few days, her urge to fly again grows. One night, she sneaks into her children’s room and picks up her daughter to take her outside and show her how to fly. The story ends with Allie telling her daughter to promise not to tell the boys what she is about to experience and excitement building in Allie for her daughter. The central idea of this story is the pursuit of satisfaction never ends.

“The People Could Fly” by Virginia Hamilton is a folk tale that originated among people held captive as slaves. Before African people were captured and enslaved  they had this unique ability in which majority of the people in Africa could fly. Those numbers began to shrink since there was not enough room on the slave ship to have large delicate wings and since there was no space they had to shed their wings and slowly forgot about their magical powers. On the Plantation there was a woman by the name of Sarah. Sarah is working in the fields with her baby on her back. Sarah's child is emotionally beaten down and starts crying loud enough for it to draw attention. The driver slashes the Sarah and the baby until she collapses on the hot humid

It didn’t help me to analyze anything from the book or make any good connection with the themes. The movie and the novel share one thing in common, which is the main characters struggle with society. The main character in the movie, Charlie, battles with his love for religion (Catholicism) and his Mafia ambitions. The movie has an abrupt ending with a scene of an ambulance and paramedics arriving to help Charlie and Johnny that have been shot by the man they owe money to. The movies main purpose was to illustrate the cultural and ethnic situation of the time and how it impacted the youth’s

In the folktale “The People Could Fly,” by Virginia Hamilton, the intended audience are the slaves that are being whipped by the cruel rulers of the plantations that were, of the 1800s.

The most profound part of the novel is when Alejandra boarded the train and left. As John Grady stands there watching the train, he sees a young couple hugging and people all around laughing. At this moment John Grady lost his reason for living a successful life. He feels he has nothing left, so he decides to seek revenge. This is a pivotal point in the novel because it is what causes the rest of the novel to take place.

The end of chapter nine is the turning point in the novel because Hassan and Ali leave. In the end of chapter nine Hassan admits to stealing Amir’s watch and money even though he didn’t do it. Ali then says that they have to leave but won’t tell Baba why. Amir thinks he knows why, “Ali drew Hassan to him, curled his arm around his son’s shoulder. It was protective gesture

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.

In Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, we (the readers) are given a first hand look at the marginalization and discrimination of a group of people in Afghanistan through the characters of Hassan and his father Ali. Hassan and Ali are Hazaras (the minority ethnic group), and also Shi'a Muslims (the minority religion). For centuries, Hazaras have been discriminated against and oppressed in Afghanistan. Hassan and Ali experience this marginalization and discrimination in their hometown of Kabul. In Chapter 2, Amir describes how the Pashtun children in the town would ridicule Ali and explains how the Hazara ethnic group was marginalized, excluded, and silenced in Afghanistan.

The major conflict of the story is Johnny killed Bob, and Pony and Johnny have to run away from the police. In the text it said, “What are we going to do? They put you in the electric chair for killing people.” The turning point in the story, is that innocent Johnny had used his switchblade and killed Bob. The story won’t be the same after this event because Johnny has to live with, that he is a murderer.