Zits's Flight Sparknotes

The book Flight is about a teenage indian boy called Zits who is in and out of foster homes and jail. He meets a friend named Justice and feels that Justice understands him completely. After living with Justice for a while and learning to use guns, he decides to shoot up a bank. After shooting up the bank he is shot in the head and wakes up as another person, after going through their life for a day or two he wakes up as a new person in a new time and place, until he wakes up again in his own body standing back in the bank. Through analysis of Zits’s travels it will show that they have helped him better grasp the meaning of perspective. While Zits is in the body of a small Indian child, he is hesitating to kill a white soldier. “Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?” (77). After watching the horror of the battle, he begins to question if revenge actually solves anything. Before he went on this journey from body to body he used to think revenge was the only solution to a problem. “I get so angry sometimes that I want to hurt people. I dream about hurting people” (26). This quote is what Zits tells us after telling us about the rich people from his country who don’t share their nice things, he is wanting to hurt them, getting revenge, he thinks it …show more content…
Part of what he learns in being in his father’s body, is that even his father who he has always viewed as the bad guy, acts from his own pain. He makes poor choices but still demands respect. He stumbles around as his father repeating “I want some respect” (141). He wants a rich white man who passes by to show him some respect, but he refuses to show respect to people like Pam and Paul. Zits starts to understand his father's pain and begins to give his father some forgiveness. He realizes that his father wasn’t as awful as he could have been like his grandfather was to his