Comparing Zits And Victor In The Movie Smoke Signals

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“I learned how to stop crying. I learned how to hide inside myself. I learned how to be someone else. I learned how to be cold and numb.” (Flight 161). In Flight by Sherman Alexie, a young kid named Zits has a lot of similarities and differences with Victor, the main character in the movie Smoke Signals. They’re both facing similar situations, but they handle it very differently. Zits learns to hate everyone and not to let anyone bother or hurt him in any way. Victor has other people to talk to, but he still does not respect them as well. The first couple minutes he spends with his new foster family, he immediately curses the parents out. “You bet your plopping ass I’m laughing at you.” (Flight 15). Zits and Victor are both similar and different because both their fathers left them, both people have an identity crisis, and both of them fix themselves at the end of the story. But, Zits and Victor fix their problems in completely different ways. First off, Zits and Victor are similar because they both have Indian backgrounds and their fathers left them. “Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be …show more content…

For instance, Zits didn’t have a mom that loved him in the book present-day, but Victor still lives with his mom. “My mother loved me more than any of you will ever know.” ( Flight 3). Victor had a person who still loved him and cared for him when as he grew up, but Zits had nobody to love him by the age of six. Another example why Zits and Victor are different is the fact that Zits’ dad left him before he even met him. “He (Zit’s dad) vanished like a cruel magician about two minutes after I was born.” (Flight 5). Victor’s dad left him when he was eight, so Victor still remembers a lot about him. Victor had eight years to see and interact with his father, while Zits only had two

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