The Importance Of Switch Bodies In Sherman Alexie's Fight

Did you ever think about switching bodies with someone else? Seeing things in a different way that you will never since before? People always want switch bodies with someone else but in the book called Fight by Sherman Alexie a nonfiction novel where a fifthteen year old boy named Zits switch bodies with not just one person but, five different people to see new things and learn many thing in his new body. In the beginning of the book Zit is fifthteen years old and his mom died when he was just six years old and his dad left him when he was just born. He now an orphan who has been in twenty different foster homes and twenty-two schools living a hard life with no one there to help him out. Zits over that time has been doing really bad things like smoking crack, drinking with the homeless people, and even stealing a car and crashing it into a building. This all lead up to the worst thing that Zits had done

In other words Zits knew that inflicting pain to other is wrong for many reasons. “ I can’t do this. It somehow seems worse to shoot a dead body than to shoot a living man. Justice made killing make sense. But it doesn’t make sense, does it.” (Page 53) “ Maybe you can’t kill somebody twice for real, but it sure hurts your heart just the same.” ( Page 53) By learning this small part in a different body he soon realize killing a person is wrong even if they already died. At the end of the book when Zits was back in his body in the same place before he shooted up a bank. He thinks about if he kills these people what will the outcome be? He can’t kill or shoot anyone now because it will not make sense for killing innocent people. Everything he knew was wrong which helps realize what was right and what was wrong about violence and killing. Zit realize and learned that it is wrong to use violence or killing is never right that makes him change at the end of the