First, Alexie uses conflict to address issues that teens may face or have faced in their lives. Alexie introduced many conflicts in Flight, one of the conflicts he used is man vs. self. One time when we see this stylistic technique used in Flight is when Zits, the protagonist was struggling with his own identity that he is saying that his real name did not matter. An example of conflict is when Zits says, “Call me Zits. Everybody calls me Zits. That’s not my real name, of course. My real name isn’t important.” (Flight page 1) This example of conflict shows that Zits thinks that he is not important which is why he introduced himself as Zits in the beginning of the story. Like Zits, most teens think that they are not important and are in search