Assessment log 2 is a continuation of the book Flight. Zit’s transformations begin when he wakes in a new time period and always end when he closes his eyes. This sense of “waking” suggests that the episodes are potentially dreams or hallucinations.
Reading these chapters, I felt as confused as Zits is. One effect of living in another body is that it offers Zits some perspective on his own life. I can empathize with zits because of the first-person narration but able to judge him from outside, now Zits is able to hear his own thoughts but consider them from other perspectives than that of his adolescent anger. When he wakes as Hank, Zits feels remote from Justice's influence, and is able to recognize the atrocity of the Ghost Dance.
Zit’s dream-like emergence toward the light in Chapter 7 Zit’s quick steps to the passage of the bullet that “blasted through his brain,” thereby making explicit the connection between the Ghost Dance and the events to follow. Further, the emergence into the light evokes the passage through death into the afterlife, underscoring the moral nature of the transformations that Zits goes through.…show more content… Zits wonders whether this camp might be heaven, since it has given him so much of what he wants. Whereas the first transformation allowed him to live a white man's life, he here gets to have an authentic Native American identity. Not only does he get a father, but his father is also a dark-skinned Indian with great power and love. Overall, the Indian camp gives Zits a strong feeling of family, a key theme in the book. He gains both a father and a sense of community with the camp overall. For the first time, he acknowledges, though unconsciously, his wish to be a full blooded Native
