Gender Stereotypes In Sherman Alexie's Flight

According to dictionary.com, the definition of power is “ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something”. In Flight by Sherman Alexie, Zits feels like he could do anything because of his pimples. They make him more confident to do things because they are like a mask for him to hide behind.. Also, throughout the story Zits travels to different people and learns lessons from them which only helps him feel more powerful, but in a more positive way. Sherman Alexie’s book provides a lot of evidence for gender approach, moral/philosophical approach, and reader response. In Flight, many gender approaches are from men acting more feminine than typical gender stereotypes would lead us to believe. “Zits being a teenager with
Throughout the story Zits travels to different bodies. With each person he travels to his perspective changes on events that are similar to his own. “One of the characters Zits travels to is Jimmy, a middle-aged man” (Alexie 110). Zits learns two things from Jimmy. One lesson is trustworthiness with friendship. Zits has a similar situation to Jimmy through Abbad. Jimmy taught Abbad how to fly the plane, and he used it in the wrong. Justice taught Zits how to use guns, and Zits had the choice to use them or not. The other lesson was about honesty with the situation of Jimmy cheating on his wife with her finding out. Zits has lived his whole life doing bad things and running from the consequences which is conflicting with honesty. Another character Zits travels to is his own father (Alexie 150). Zits finds out the truth about his father. He gets the answer no son wants to hear, but he learns why his father left him. In the end, it was for the better because Zits ends up with two picture perfect parents. He chooses to see the good in the situation. He becomes a better person experiencing different situations like his own through other