Analysis Of Flight By Sherman Alexie

The book Flight written by Sherman Alexie is about a 15 year old part Native American

orphan called Zits who has experienced a life full of violence and abuse. Zits never met his

father and ran away from his mother. Throughout all of flight, it is noticeable that the search for

identity is a reoccurring theme that happens when he goes into people 's bodies. In order for him

to grow he has to experience different times and places through his traveling into different

characters. Zits does not understand why he has been mistreated his whole life or where he

belongs. All throughout Flight, Zits starts closing his eyes and finds himself trapped in the

body of different characters.

This is the first main theme we see in Flight, is Zits

All of the

foster homes Zits was put in did not offer the same parenting skills that your own family would

provide, Zits says that “When it comes to foster parents, there are only two kinds: The good but

messy people who are trying to help kids or the absolute welfare vultures who like too cash the

government checks every month.”(8) The worst part about growing up for Zits was that he

always felt betrayed because of his father leaving him and his mother 's death. When Zits is in

different characters bodies he realizes that there is no such thing as a perfect family and everyone

is capable of betrayal. Zits sees that his father has no one and has made very bad decisions, this

shows Zits that he wasn 't the only one in his family that was alone. Zits starts to finally

understand his identity after all the experiences through different characters and says “I

remember I used to be like that little boy, holding tightly on to anybody who showed me even the

tiniest bit of love. I haven’t been like that in a long time."

Each time Zits enters another character 's body, he realizes that every person has