Gender Archetypes And Symbols In Sherman Alexie's Flight

“This morning, I wake in a room I do not recognize. I often wake in strange rooms” (Alexie 1). Flight is about a teenage orphan named Zits who wakes up as numerous different people in many different situations throughout the book. Zits goes on a journey to learn several lessons about life and his self worth. Sherman Alexie included many literary devices to help and represent Zits’ growth. In the book Flight, by Sherman Alexie, moral issues, gender archetypes, and symbols are present. In Flight, one of the biggest moral issues Zits deals with is his regret over some of the things he has does in the book. “Maybe you can’t kill someone twice for real, but it still hurts your heart just the same” (Alexie 53). When Zits is forced to shoot Junior he finally realizes that killing is morally wrong. Killing again has forced Zits to confront the remorse that he feels over killing the people in the bank and Junior. The regret that Zits will carry throughout the book started at this point because Zits had never had to deal with the aftermath of killing someone until now. “I wonder who I might kill. I want to stop” (Alexie 80). Zits has murdered several people, and he has grown to hate it. He dreads doing it again because he knows it is wrong. Zits

“Call me Zits” (Alexie 1). Zits is defined by his zits. Nobody wants acne and Zits believes that nobody wants him. His zits also symbolize all of the problems and inner demons that he is challenged with. Zits has a lot of acne and a lot of problems. “We do this twice a day, and your face should start clearing up in a week or two. A few months from now, you’ll be brand-new” (Alexie 180). When Zits’s acne goes aways it will represent all of his problems disappearing too. He will finally be brand new and wanted. That is something that Zits has wanted since his mother died. Symbols play a huge role in Flight and Zits’s zits symbolize who he