Summary Of Flight By Sherman Alexie

Every boy has a hole in his soul in the shape of their fathers; if a father is unwilling to fill that hole, it could leave a wound that cannot be easily healed. In the book Flight by Sherman Alexie, a half-Indian boy named Zits grew up without the memory of a father. Zits always has a lot of questions about his father — he wondered if he ever loved his family, and why did he abandon his wife and his infant child. The absence of the father figure in Zits childhood has created a hole in his soul; Zits started to feel the pain of loneliness, and he started to blame others for his loneliness. By the same token, Zits’ father also struggled loneliness in his life; he also has a hole in his soul because of the lack of love from his father. In many ways,
However, Zits was unlike his father because he was given an opportunity to unveil the questions that he has been wondering for many years; he was able to learn from the mistakes and become a better person.
A significant similarity between Zits and his father was the absence of father figures in their lives. Zits complained and hated the fact that he did not have a father; although he attempted to replace his father with somebody else, he eventually realized that no one was able to fill the hole that his father left in his soul. Likewise, Zits’ father struggled with paternal love in his life childhood too. When Zits went into the memories of his father’s, he stumbled upon the footage that his grandfather ashamed young Zits’ father for failing to bring back any food. “‘I want you to know what I know,’ my grandfather says. ‘You