Flight by Sherman Alexie

The book flight by Sherman Alexie is about a young half Native-American orphan named Zits whois forced to fend for his self when his mother dies of breast cancer and his father ran away. He develops hatred for the people who take control over his life and gains a general hatred for everybody else. He does not trust anybody else and acts sinister and angry. He almost commits a mass murder, and is living with the emotional challenges when he is mysteriously sent back in time.

Power is treated as something only rich people get their hands, and is something that is treated as awful and not a thing that was created to help maintain order and peace. The people with power are the police, or anybody with guns who is going to use them When Justice, a caucasian boy who he would generally hate, gave him a gun, he became one of the characters with the most power in the book. Zits started to fell elated and bloated with power

This makes me uneasy, because guns have killed many innocent people who did not deserve to die, but this boy feels that whoever has this gun is the most powerful person. We are trying to limit the amount of deaths, and this boy believes that this deadly instrument is a good thing.

Ziits refused the Paintball gun and chose the gun. Does that mean that we are too squeamish about guns and killing and in a false utopia, or does it mean that he is a person who actually is a murderer. This story suggests that guns are used for power, and that killing is not such a major thing. The question I had constantly when reading this book was why the author used the gun to show status