Flight By Sherman Alexie

Every day you wake up in a new body and you don’t know who you are or what your doing you just go through life lost. In Sherman Alexie’s Flight that is exactly what the main character Zit goes through. Flight is about a troubled kid named Zit who kills a bunch of people in a bank. And when he gets shot and “dies” he experiences the lives of other people and he can’t control what they do but he watches through their body. He sees all the good and bad people could do to each other in many different situations, this all makes him question his decisions in life and what he did in that bank. Zit goes through a lot in the book and learns how his actions affect others.

One way he sees his actions effect others are through violence, like the violent things he does. Such as the killings in the bank and hitting foster parents, going through peoples bodies make him question what he was doing. For example, when he was in a Native American boys body he was put in a situation to kill a kid or not but he never knew what he would do. He questioned him self he said this boy can be about my age he maybe 18 or 17 or 16 or 15. When this went through his head he thought back to what he did at the bank killing all those people but why? Why kill people that didn’t do anything to you for any reason, that’s what he thought. He knew he messed up and he couldn’t make it right but he went through it any way.

Another way he saw how his actions effecting people were through racism because he is a mixed Indian and Irish kid but he was always making stereotypes about white people and Indians. He would say how white people mad his life bad like the foster family that was white he went to, he said they didn’t pay attention to him and treated him like second class to the white families real kids. But when he was in the Indian boys body he saw a bunch of Indians kill a bunch of white people, he say them take the white peoples clothing and leave them on the floor naked with nothing at all not even shoes. This made him contradict what he used to think about white people and how they’re so bad, it made him feel bad and wonder why people would do something so bad like that.

Zit sees how his actions can really change people and how his thinking in life isn’t always right. He also shows him self how life can be weird and he needs to learn and grow.