Flight By Sherman Alexie Character Analysis

“I don’t kill anybody. But I ride with killers, so that makes me a killer.” Zits contemplates, charging into the “Indian’s Camp”, in the book Flight by Sherman Alexie. Gus is an American Soldier fighting against the Native Americans in Kansas. Zits is able to invade and control Gus’s mind. Zits thoughts and opinions are overpowered by Gus’s judgment of the Native Americans. Flight is about half Caucasians and half Native American teenage boy, who time travels in other people’s head. Zits goes through multiple transitions of stereotyping and judging both Caucasians and Native Americans. Zits judges a whole race based on his experience with a small group of people from the same race. In Flight by Sherman Alexie, Zits judges a Caucasian Officer by saying, “Dave is a big white dude. But he’s got one of those gentle voices like he’s talking you down from the ledge of a tall building… I just have respect for

In his last journey in time traveling and invading others mind, Zits ends up in his father’s head and discovers the truth behind his hast departure from Zits live. “Somewhere on this floor, my mother is giving birth to me. But my father cannot be a participant. He cannot be a witness. He cannot be a father. And so he runs.” Zits finds the reason behind his father’s abundance is because of his grandfather. Zits father was emotionally tortured by his father thus leading him to believe that he couldn’t be a good father. He thought he would treat Zits the same. Zits’ father’s reasoning helps Zits in moving on and ceases Zits hast judgements. Dave’s brother adopts Zits and it’s their first day together, “The firefighter looks at me. He’s not reading a newspaper. He’s not ignoring me. He looks right at me… Save is going to take care of me, too… I need as many fathers as possible.” Zits doesn’t judges Dave’s brother based on his skin color. He accepts Dave and his