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Analyzing Zits Flight's Flight
Flight tells us the story of young boy named Zits. He’s half-Indian Half-Irish and has had rough childhood since his mother’s death and his father left them.
Missing he love that he deserved, Zits grows to be an angry, cold hearted (at first sight) and somehow shameful of his image and his lack of connection to his Irish and Indian heritage.
Zits seems to have built a wall around himself so that he can’t be hurt again, we see that when he first wakes up on his new foster home. His reaction to the “Good Morning” issue was of someone who doesn’t want anyone near him… His use of the whatever is also an indication of a will to dissociate himself from other and to suggest that he doesn’t care about them, their feeling or opinions.
His past, constantly moving from foster home to foster home, his
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He does that by occupying someone else’s body after getting shot at a bank after a massacre he seems to have committed.
This experience of living in another person’s body helps Zits with his own life, he sees his problem in another perspective. The first person he wakes up as his Hank, a FBI agent who he first thinks will “save the world” but ends up shooting an Indian man, Junior.
His second time travel experience takes him to the body of a mute young Indian boy. This time he ends up being transported to a time before the Battle of Little Bighorn where he has the chance to me great warriors.
After the battle he witnesses the cruelty of Indians who desecrate the bodies of the dead. This time Zits is also confronted with a decision: Should he kill a soldier as revenge for the little boy’s injury? He isn’t capable of making a decision so he closes his eyes.
Zits time travels again and this time he finds himself in the body of Gus, a war hero that lead US cavalry soldiers to an Indian Camp where they could revenge the death of soldiers killed by

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