The story Flight by Sherman Alexie is about a young boy named Zit who is lost in life his dad left him and his mother is dead he doesn't know who he is or what to do. The text deals with Zits thoughts and life. He struggles a lot with self doubt and there is a lot of violence and bad language, but this book can teach kids a lot. This should stay in middle school libraries because it teaches kids life lessons and how to be self motivated.
The article "Darkness to visible" by Gurdon Meghan shows how books like Sherman Alexies Diary of a part time Indian shouldn't be banned because they are helpful. For example Sherman Alexie says that his book is not as bad as the internet because the internet is so big you could really find or see anything. So Alexie was right his book is a small booklet of paper what could it really have thats so bad. From "Flight" the baddest part of the was when Zit decided to kill all those people in the bank and describing all the people dying getting shot, men, women, children it was sad. Also he let a kid named Justice choice his decisions for him, Justice convinced Zit to kill people and gave him guns, so Zit didn't know better.This could teach kids to go the right way in life and learn and grow.
The book Flight also teaches kids awareness such as racism and why its bad but it shows kids why now days people are not ass racists as in the 50's or earlier. In Flight Zit goes into one indian boys body and is told to kill a white kid. But he can't do it he has the tomahawk in his hand, to this kids neck but he questions if he should kill him. He thinks about the kids age, he thinks what has this done to me, and he finds his answers stop him from doing the wrong thing. This could teach kids that in life just because you don't like the way someone looks, it doesn't mean they deserve something bad in return for how you feel. This also teaches kids to really think before they act a way about something.
This book is bad because it teaches kids that self doubt is a thing that is real and lots of people have self doubt. But this book also teaches kids how to keep there heads high and do what they want to stay happy but don't do bad things in the process. It shows kids a lot of lessons about life and how this could be good for them they also need to be strong and independent for themselves. The article "Librarians load fight against banned books." Shows that a lot of books now have a lot of self doubt and self abuse because kids now relate to this because they think its the only way they could be happy and free. But they need to learn that its more than just that kids need to know that life it self is a good thing and they need to appreciate it.
Flight is a book that teaches kids many things in life lessons and new attitudes. It lets kids know what not to do in life based on people around and that you need to be yourself sometimes. People need to learn to lead not follow other so this book shows kids that and shows them to be on there own but not against people.
Work cited
Cox Gurdon, Meghan. "Darkness Too Visible." The Wall Street Journal. N.p,4 June 2011. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.
Rich, Jake. "Can Book Censorship Save Our Children and Their Innocence?" University Wire. 07 Oct. 2014: n.p. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 23 Nov. 2014.
Kallweit, Karoline. "Librarians Lead Fight Against Banned Books." Global Information Network. 24 Sep. 2012: n.p. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 23 Nov. 2014.
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