Sherman Alexie Judgement
Judgement and its connections to racism
What do you think when you see a drunk homeless native? A person who can’t handle responsibility and drinks away every cent the native gets? What about a black woman who has 7 kids and is rude to you while collecting welfare checks? Do you see someone taking advantage of your money? Or not a functional member of society due to “ that’s just what blacks do”? What people don’t see is the way these people been hurt, that native man could have horrible things happen to him which forced him to shut himself out and same with the black woman’s attitude. What people don’t see is other people’s perspective, because they are too selfish to. People judge them as if they were covers to a book yet never opened the pages to see the pain and sorrow in their life’s. Sherman Alexie proved this in the book Flight, that being thus trained to pass judgement on someone you don’t know leads to a vicious …show more content…
The perfect example of this is in the book when Zits made his dad relive memories of his past and how his father was abused, which made him run when Zits was born. This wasn’t to hurt Zits in any way but was to save him in his father’s mind. Because his father didn’t want himself to turn into his father and treat Zits like his father did. He spent his whole life literally hating his father for running away and blamed him for his mother's death and ultimately judged his father for it. Since his dad wasn't around Zits took his anger out on everything and everyone, judging them cause the people he met could hear him and take in his anger. But as soon as he saw why his dad ran he suddenly understood the best he could and let hate go. The hate Zits had left him from that part of his life because he saw his father's pain and perspective. This is why it is so important to not judge but instead
What do you think when you see a drunk homeless native? A person who can’t handle responsibility and drinks away every cent the native gets? What about a black woman who has 7 kids and is rude to you while collecting welfare checks? Do you see someone taking advantage of your money? Or not a functional member of society due to “ that’s just what blacks do”? What people don’t see is the way these people been hurt, that native man could have horrible things happen to him which forced him to shut himself out and same with the black woman’s attitude. What people don’t see is other people’s perspective, because they are too selfish to. People judge them as if they were covers to a book yet never opened the pages to see the pain and sorrow in their life’s. Sherman Alexie proved this in the book Flight, that being thus trained to pass judgement on someone you don’t know leads to a vicious …show more content…
The perfect example of this is in the book when Zits made his dad relive memories of his past and how his father was abused, which made him run when Zits was born. This wasn’t to hurt Zits in any way but was to save him in his father’s mind. Because his father didn’t want himself to turn into his father and treat Zits like his father did. He spent his whole life literally hating his father for running away and blamed him for his mother's death and ultimately judged his father for it. Since his dad wasn't around Zits took his anger out on everything and everyone, judging them cause the people he met could hear him and take in his anger. But as soon as he saw why his dad ran he suddenly understood the best he could and let hate go. The hate Zits had left him from that part of his life because he saw his father's pain and perspective. This is why it is so important to not judge but instead