The Theme Of Hate In Flight By Sherman Alexie

Hate is a powerful tool: it can break barriers, create violence, establish revenge, or destroy people entirely. Leaving behind rationality; “hatred is a way to shut down the mind to a degree, in order to handle overwhelming stress or trauma”(Wilson 2014), through hatred people detach themselves from practicality and inevitably ensue themselves with violence and revenge. The main character Zits in the novel Flight by Sherman Alexie goes on a spiritual journey to find out what hatred, violence, and revenge can cause. The cause of Zits hate, the violence from his past, the effects violence has, the symbol of Zits hate-Justice, and the change seen in Zits at the end of the novel all shows how hate develops throughout the story. Confronted with

There is speculation throughout the novel of Justice being a figment of Zits imagination. As though he is an evil figment in Zits head. Evoking revenge and hate Zits is met with harsh reality. Justice becomes this figure in his life telling him to act on vengeance from his hatred. Because of this Zits feels justified -no pun intended- to commit atrocity. But as Zits goes on his spiritual journey he finds that any human can reveal and focus on their own hate. All this is perceived as his inner conscious, Justice is the evil counterpart while the past lives he experience is his realization and positive conscious coming out. At the end of his journey Zits realizes hate without guilt is what creates horrible people and violence in the world. Implements this journey as a new start and works on his own hatred as his life goes

When violence ensues it breaths revenge which is showed by the character Gus an Indian tracker in the 19th century. He is Zits’s third transformation and one of the most important in recognizing the theme of hate, violence, and revenge. Off the bat Zits is met with a resistance from this vessel which symbolizes how hate is controlling him. Gus’s memory consists of grief and rage over a massacre of beloved ones and now as those thoughts run through Zits head he is leads the soldiers to an Indian camp for a massacre. What is learned from Gus’s despair is from it there is the will to cause violence which is what in turn happens. Zits explains this exactly by saying, “This is what revenge can do to you,”(Alexie 88). In Chapter 12 we find that Zits feels the full weight and age in the body of Gus. The relation Gus has to the little girl Zits keeps seeing weights down on him. However, what Zits learns through his transformation is that acceptance is how to eradicate