Psych 1301

Flight Chapter 1 and 2
In the book Flight, written by Sherman Alexie the narrator is a fifteen year old adolescence as well as foster child. The speakers name is anonymous but he insist to be called “Zits” due to the severe acne he has. Zits descends from an Indian and Irish background; his mother was Irish and his father was Indian. Zits’s is characterized with a low self-esteem possibly because his father abandoned the family literally two minutes after Zits was born. Zits became an orphan at the age of six shortly after the death of his mother, and ever since he has been continuously moving from one foster home to another. In fact, he moved to twenty-one different foster homes in nine years. Zits seeks attention by engaging in rebellious practices such as drinking illegally, stealing, and etc. In result, Zits has dedicated some time out of his life behind bars as a juvenile delinquent. Zits values books and television; it serves as a resource to obtaining a better understanding about society and his ancestry of being Native American. Zits is very bold and daring because he always attempts to imply his mental and physical toughness on any opposing force he encounters. He contains a highly contagious memory that can positively or negatively impact the development of his character traits.
Zits has a descriptive imagination that resembles the average villain cartoon character. While, he is getting arrested for the twelfth time by Officer Dave it’s obvious that Zits is familiar with the officer, and that there is a possible underlying connection between Zits and the officer. As Zits enters the jail cell, he meets three other juvenile delinquents of different ethnic groups. The Caucasian delinquent is also seventeen years of age and ironically wiser than any typical seventeen year old adolescence.