The Battle Of Little Bighorn Analysis

In the beginning of both the novel Flight, by Sherman Alexie, and the article, The Battle Of Little Bighorn, 1876 unnecessary violence and revenge are perpetrated by the main character or subject. In Flight, the protagonist, Zits, is an immature, troublemaking, Native-American boy. Zits gets sent to jail numerous times for his mischievous actions. For his most recent offense he is put in jail with a young white kid, who calls himself Justice. Zits tells Justice about his past. About his father leaving him. About his hatred for all his white foster parents. About his self-shame. Justice suggests that Zits perform a “ghost dance”; a dance that, if successful, is said to bring back all Indian people, and make all white people disappear. However,
Zits does not consider that the people he is shooting in the bank are innocent and there are even children hit by his bullets. They did not choose to be white, but they were unfairly massacred because of Zits’ preconceived notion that all white people are evil. Similarly, in The Battle Of Little Bighorn, 1876 Indian soldiers violently get their revenge on white soldiers. The Indian and white armies met in Montana, and the Indians completely demolished the whites. After the victory, “the Indians came through and stripped the bodies and mutilated all the uniformed soldiers, believing that the soul of a mutilated body would be forced to walk the earth for all eternity and could not ascend to heaven” (The Battle Of Little Bighorn, 1876). The Indian soldiers use violence by mutilating and stripping the white soldiers. They use this to get their revenge on the other white soldiers that may have killed family members or friends in their village. However, it is unnecessary because they completely disrespected the white soldiers while they were already dead, even though many of the white soldiers probably had done nothing to ever hurt Indian people