Flight begins when a half Native American orphan who calls himself Zits awakes in his new foster home. Zits has had a rough life, suffering from a lack of self-esteem and not caring about anything since the death of his mother and his father's abandonment. Causing him to live in and out of foster homes his whole life and make poor lifestyle decisions. The particular day that this story begins Zits gets arrested again by Officer Dave, a police officer who arrests Zits often but acts sympathetic towards him. Once arriving to the jail he meets Justice, an intelligent boy whom he connects to on a personal level from their similar views on the lack of Native American rights. He connects to Justice so much that he feels as if he is a part of the…show more content… When he does so, he awakes in a different body in a different time period. First as an FBI agent who joined forces with a group against Native American rights, because of this Zits is required to shoot a Native American man. Out of pressure he performs the task only to be transported into the body of a Native American boy who cannot speak due to a white soldier who slit his throat. Infuriated by this his father tells him to kill a white soldier as revenge, seeing how the Indian boy’s father wanted revenge on the white soldiers reminded him of how he wanted revenge when opening fire in the bank. Zits asked himself, “Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?”(Alexie 77). Closing his eyes, he is once again transported to another body. This time to Gus, an Indian tracker who is furious from how Native Americans brutally killed his people and want to get revenge by leading a group of white soldiers to a Native American camp to open fire. Zits, having no control over Gus’s rage, he cannot stop him from leading the way for all his blood hungry
