Flight Patterns Sherman Alexie

Everyone likes a good fiction story, one that has in-depth characters, a detailed setting, a good style, and one that keeps the reader interested. In the story Flight Patterns I was very interested throughout most of the story. Sherman Alexie did an outstanding job providing such and intricate character and interesting dialogue. The main character William, is a man of Native-American descent and works as a travelling salesman to support his wife and daughter. William is portrayed as an every day, average American. However he is Native-American and a member of the Spokane Indian tribe, who quickly develops anger. He begins to perceive the world in terms of race, gender and separateness. Alexie shows William as, “He was an enrolled member of

The way William was portrayed as a character and the way he and Fedaku conversed was so interesting. Fekadu and William bond over their normal foe, establishing a racial generalization in Flight Patterns. At the point when William relates his trepidation of flying after September eleventh, conceding that he was planning to be encompassed by "a quarter century, cherishing, firearm nut, serial executing, psychopathic, Ollie North, Norman Schwarzkopf, conservative, Agent Orange, post-traumatic anxiety issue, CIA, FBI, programmed weapon, brilliant bomb, laser-locating mongrels" while he flew, Fekadu shouts "envision needing to be encompassed by white cops!" (58). Fekadu and William are joined just by the way that they are a minority who has been scorched by the generalizations of white men. Be that as it may, both Fekadu and William ooze over the top contempt toward white men, as a rule. While this surrounding of white Americans as nothing more than oblivious, traditionalist obsessive workers was likely intentional in passing on Alexie 's predominant message that "we are all caught by other people groups ' thoughts " and the overwhelming populace might be pretty much as caught by generalizations as minorities-the creator uses such racially charged portrayals of white Americans that there is no desire for the amazing quality of those generalizations (57); this is the essence of issue with Alexie 's