Author Sherman Alexie’s novel Flight paints a vivid picture of poverty, drunkenness, isolation and unencumbered anger and despair of a young man. Until Zits, Alexie’s main character, is allowed to inhabit the body and mind of his father he is closed off from the community around him and is condemned to live a sad and contempt filled life. Once this experience is reached he is a more motivated, compassionate and open person. Traveling back in time to step into the shoes of his biological father may have been the biggest factor in Zits’ change in attitude and character throughout the entire novel. Prior to this event Zits had a overwhelmingly negative view of his father, after all he had left him at the hospital with his mother and gave
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He can’t believe that his whole life he’s been enraged with people who treat other people like worthless beings and yet he went in and took the lives of unsuspecting victims. This loathing of his own character is injurious to his health and when he starts to see hidden motivations in others he also begins to see them in himself as well. This enables Zits to recognize his need for help, he understands at this point that he can’t go through life alone and isolated emotionally or he’ll end up like his father, drunk, aggressive and homeless. We can see this later in the novel when Officer Dave has his brother and sister in-law adopt Zits. Looking in Officer Dave knows that Zits needs strong parental figures in his life and up until this point in the book there was no way he would be open to the idea of outside assistance. Alexie’s Flight gives readers a look at the life of Zits, a young troubled and abandoned man who had no drive and no self accountability to make his life better. Through the experience of living in his father’s body Zits was given a reason for the abandonment he was treated to by his father, a deeper understanding of the reasons why people commit atrocities or even basic betrayals and, a sense of self awareness. The most important effect of this experience was the feeling
He can’t believe that his whole life he’s been enraged with people who treat other people like worthless beings and yet he went in and took the lives of unsuspecting victims. This loathing of his own character is injurious to his health and when he starts to see hidden motivations in others he also begins to see them in himself as well. This enables Zits to recognize his need for help, he understands at this point that he can’t go through life alone and isolated emotionally or he’ll end up like his father, drunk, aggressive and homeless. We can see this later in the novel when Officer Dave has his brother and sister in-law adopt Zits. Looking in Officer Dave knows that Zits needs strong parental figures in his life and up until this point in the book there was no way he would be open to the idea of outside assistance. Alexie’s Flight gives readers a look at the life of Zits, a young troubled and abandoned man who had no drive and no self accountability to make his life better. Through the experience of living in his father’s body Zits was given a reason for the abandonment he was treated to by his father, a deeper understanding of the reasons why people commit atrocities or even basic betrayals and, a sense of self awareness. The most important effect of this experience was the feeling