Flight “Call me Zits,” (Alexie 1). Zits is a teenage boy facing many problems in his life. Zits says his own name does not matter because all he is seen as is his zits. Zits does not have many morals to begin with, but throughout the story he develops his own morals. We meet Zits in a new foster home in which he hates, and pushes the mother and runs off. Two critical approaches that can be seen in Flight by Sherman Alexie, are biographical and moral. One way to approach Flight is biographically. “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 ever. I scream out Daddy” (Alexie 64). He is so happy because he never knew his own Indian father. This quote shows that Alexie writes
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Zits believes that he is deserving of punishments and he is regretting what he did at the bank. “I deserve whatever punishment comes my way. But no punishment will be big enough. My punishment won’t bring back the dead” (Alexie 81). He deserves any punishment, but he can not take back what he did. He is beginning to feel guilty for the bank and everything he has done. He finally understands the severity of what he has done, and wishes he could take it back, but no punishment could ever bring back the dead. Throughout the book, Zits references all of his punishments back to the bank shooting. “And then I wonder if that’s the reason I killed all the people in the bank” (Alexie 76). He time traveled through all of those people so he could see the impact of killing and watching other innocent people be killed. All of the people that he traveled through taught him different lessons and each time he regretted the bank shooting even more. There are many ways to analyze this book morally. There are many different approaches to the book Flight including biographical and moral. Biographical and moral are two good approaches that Alexie was very skilled at writing. Zits travels through all of the people so they could teach him important lessons. Approaching books with literary analysis is important because the reader can understand the writer more and the book
Zits believes that he is deserving of punishments and he is regretting what he did at the bank. “I deserve whatever punishment comes my way. But no punishment will be big enough. My punishment won’t bring back the dead” (Alexie 81). He deserves any punishment, but he can not take back what he did. He is beginning to feel guilty for the bank and everything he has done. He finally understands the severity of what he has done, and wishes he could take it back, but no punishment could ever bring back the dead. Throughout the book, Zits references all of his punishments back to the bank shooting. “And then I wonder if that’s the reason I killed all the people in the bank” (Alexie 76). He time traveled through all of those people so he could see the impact of killing and watching other innocent people be killed. All of the people that he traveled through taught him different lessons and each time he regretted the bank shooting even more. There are many ways to analyze this book morally. There are many different approaches to the book Flight including biographical and moral. Biographical and moral are two good approaches that Alexie was very skilled at writing. Zits travels through all of the people so they could teach him important lessons. Approaching books with literary analysis is important because the reader can understand the writer more and the book