Zit's Transformation Character Analysis

Before all of Zits transformations, he had a numerous amount of similarities with his father. Both of them were very selfish and self centered when around others. Throughout Zits transformations, he realized how poorly he was acting and saw the damage that was caused by him. This caused a dramatic change in Zits’s personality when inhabiting his fathers body in the last transformation. While viewing the personality and status of his father, Zits decided he did not want to be like that. Zits’s transformation into his fathers body redirected his future from most likely being a homeless, unsuccessful person, into someone who has a great job and family.

One mindset that was altered in Zits after he inhabited his fathers body, was how he felt that he was worthless. Zits viewed his fathers memories of his father. He witnessed the cruelty from his fathers childhood. Zits’s grandfather used to make Zits’s father say “I ain’t worth shit”(Alexie 156). Having this mindset was why Zits was always in trouble and why his father acted extremely self-centered. After this transformation, Zits’s attitude changed because he did not want to become like his father just because of extreme childhood adversity. Having this negative mindset would have changed how Zits viewed his own life, and he might have shot the person
in the bank.

A behavior that Zits and his father had in common before the transformation, was purposely making people angry at them.
Zits’s father made a couple who was trying to help him, angry at him just because he wanted to. Zits made his foster father angry at him by saying “what...ever”(Alexie 14) in response a polite good morning from his foster parents. This behavior was changed in Zits after his transformation as his father and not wanting to be like him. While in his new foster home after the transformations, Zits was polite and friendly to his foster parents. Viewing how his father treated others made Zits a more positive person when around other
people.

Inhabiting his fathers body was a very important transformation for Zits. It showed him the exact opposite ways he should behave and think when around others. Zits’s current life and future was transformed because he had a first hand view of how his father acted. Zits went from being a selfish, self-centered and cruel person, to someone who is nurturing and cares for others. Without this transformation of becoming his father, Zits most likely would have ended up exactly like him.