Violence is a form of aggression being conducted by anger. Most of the time it causes severe damage to the person the aggression is intended to. Most people confuse violence with self defence. Violence and self defense are two different things. Violence is brought from hate, like hating a person for something they have or did. Self defence is being used to protect oneself under a dangerous situation, like when you are being robbed so you need to stop the person. In the book “Flight” by Sherman Alexie, a character who is a 15 year old foster boy who goes through many emotions while time traveling. Not only many emotions but he has also lived in twenty different foster homes. Zits knows that his thoughts and actions are always negative, "I get
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If you said a terrorist attack, that's exactly what it is. Even though they aren't heard about much, the damage done is never forgotten. In one of the characters named Jimmy that Zits goes into he learns about a terrorist attack where an innocent person feels guilty about the aftermath. Jimmy is a pilot who teaches a man who is a Muslim how to fly a plane without thinking anything bad about it. In this chapter it brings a dark side about Muslims, they connect and think that all Muslims are terrorist and are here to do evil. Videos were uploaded into the internet about a plane crash “Abbad and his wife somehow disabled the passengers and crew...took control of the airplane and crashed it into downtown Chicago during rush hour.” (Alexie 126). All the people in the airplane died and many people on the ground were injured. This is when the innocent men that taught Abbad how to fly a plane was in a way blamed for the damages caused. Here Zits learned that helping/ trusting a person can lead someone to feel guilty for something horrible the trusted person …show more content…
When he was in the little Indian boys body he noticed that when he tried to speak no words came out. The Indians are the assailed, but aren't overpowered because they were ready to fight. After the (white) people are down the women and children start to over kill the men that are down. The Indian boys father has captured a young boy about his age. The father tells the Indian boy to cut the little boys throat as revenge for what they did to him. Will revenge solve the problem “ All around me, Indian men, women, and children… they all want revenge. They all want me to want revenge.” (Alexie 76). Zits can feel the little Indian boy wanting revenge. After everything that Zits has gone through it makes him think of revenge is the answer to this. While in the Indian boy's body Zit's learns that even if everyone around you wants revenge you shouldn't do it. If you do something bad because someone told you to, it turns you into a bad person just like the person who told you to do
If you said a terrorist attack, that's exactly what it is. Even though they aren't heard about much, the damage done is never forgotten. In one of the characters named Jimmy that Zits goes into he learns about a terrorist attack where an innocent person feels guilty about the aftermath. Jimmy is a pilot who teaches a man who is a Muslim how to fly a plane without thinking anything bad about it. In this chapter it brings a dark side about Muslims, they connect and think that all Muslims are terrorist and are here to do evil. Videos were uploaded into the internet about a plane crash “Abbad and his wife somehow disabled the passengers and crew...took control of the airplane and crashed it into downtown Chicago during rush hour.” (Alexie 126). All the people in the airplane died and many people on the ground were injured. This is when the innocent men that taught Abbad how to fly a plane was in a way blamed for the damages caused. Here Zits learned that helping/ trusting a person can lead someone to feel guilty for something horrible the trusted person …show more content…
When he was in the little Indian boys body he noticed that when he tried to speak no words came out. The Indians are the assailed, but aren't overpowered because they were ready to fight. After the (white) people are down the women and children start to over kill the men that are down. The Indian boys father has captured a young boy about his age. The father tells the Indian boy to cut the little boys throat as revenge for what they did to him. Will revenge solve the problem “ All around me, Indian men, women, and children… they all want revenge. They all want me to want revenge.” (Alexie 76). Zits can feel the little Indian boy wanting revenge. After everything that Zits has gone through it makes him think of revenge is the answer to this. While in the Indian boy's body Zit's learns that even if everyone around you wants revenge you shouldn't do it. If you do something bad because someone told you to, it turns you into a bad person just like the person who told you to do