flight

flight


Flight by Sherman Alexie Plot summary
The theme of Flight is the realization that no person is entirely evil. The story begins with the main character Zits who in completely evil, he’s an arsonist, a drunk, he runs away from all his foster homes, and he’s a fighter. Zits is brainwashed by a teenager who calls himself justice into shooting up a full bank of innocent people and he gets shot in the head in the process but after he gets shot in the head he wakes up in another persons body and then experiences some type of violence like when the Indians slaughtered custer and his men at the battle of little big horn , or when the American cavalry slaughtered dozens of innocent Indian men ,women ,and children , just for fun. And in all of these peoples bodies he finds that as he travels along that he can’t hurt the people that the body he’s in is supposed to hurt and that he just wants all the violence that he is seeing from traveling form body to body to stop. When he finally ends up back in his own body he is in the bank back where he started and that he hasn’t killed anyone but he was the two guns in his jacket , he looks at all the people in the bank and similes in relif that he hadn’t killed any of the innocent people that were in the bank. After that he leaves and turns himself in to his friend Officer Dave and tells him that he has two guns in his jacket and that he was about to shoot up a bank full of innocent people but he had a realization that it was all wrong and he couldn’t do it, he also tells him that he was brainwashed by some kid named justice to go to the bank to shoot it up in the first place. Officer Dave his partner and Zits go to find justice to get him but when they get to where he was staying he was long gone. After all that right before Zits is about to get put back in the system and sent to another foster home from which he will probably just end up running away from . Officer Dave Has a plan and tells Zits he can live with his brother...

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