Summary Of Rhapsody In The Rain Chapter Summaries

Zits is a Native-American and Irish, lonely fifteen year old boy. He has been in so many foster homes growing up. He has also faced and lived through a lot of difficult situations growing up. He ended up becoming a troublemaker, only because no one has been able to tell him right from wrong. His mother would have grounded him and taught him how to be for the best of his future. Zits would have been a different person because of his mom’s advice and comfort that would bring more sense to his life. Since the loss of his mother, due to cancer, he has been running away from his foster homes and his actions haven’t been great since the age of eight. The worst decision was committing to shoot at a bank. There he was attempting to shoot people at …show more content…
Is it based on race? No, it is certainly not. And if Zits was never able to have the experience of time travel, his curiosity would be fading away as he got older. But he was able to understand his dad’s reasons of why he abandoned him and his mom. He was not a bad father just because. His dad did suffer throughout his own childhood, having to deal with his own dad’s unnecessary negative words. He believed harsh words that his father used to say, like “...I can’t believe you are a part of me. I wish you’d just go away.” (Alexie 155) It affected his father so much, he did not think he was going to be man enough of a father to his wife and to his son. His point of view was it would be best for his son to not live with a coward, since it is how his father made him feel. This is why Zits actions took place in the past, because of his lonely experiences in the past without a standing father figure and an irreplaceable loving mother. There was no good guy in this novel, because no one is evidently perfect. But there are reasons and explanations on why people made bad …show more content…
He didn’t shoot anyone, but because of this time traveling experience. I only brought up three out of the five body jumped characters that are most important: Little Indian Boy, Gus, and Zits Father. The people he had body-jumped helped him change the way he thinks about life. As the Little Indian boy, he learns he does not need unnecessary or exaggerated violence to feel powerful. As Gus, he realized he could resist violence because sometimes there is no need to call for it. Lastly, his own father was an example of what not to be like. Zits needs to be there for his kids one day. Plus, be loving to his own children to be able to break the cycle of not being a great father figure, like the past generation of