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Essay / Flight Analysis and Summary - 657
Activity #1FLIGHTA kid named Zits who lives in Seattle and is only fifteen years old. He is tall, skinny, ugly and sometimes mean. It also has forty-seven buttons and that's where it gets its name. Zits is Irish, Indian and is a foster child. He had been in twenty different foster homes and twenty-two different schools. He also likes to run away from houses. One morning he finds himself in a new foster home, wakes up and goes down the stairs. “Hello,” said the adoptive mother. Zits looks at her like he doesn't care what she says, then the adoptive father told Zits to respond to the adoptive mother. “No,” Zits said. After that, they had an argument and he left the house and ran away. Later that day, while he was on the run, it starts to get dark, so Zits stops running and as soon as he does, a police car pulls up next to him and one of the police named “Dave” Zits recognized. So he told Zits to come. in the car and get off with him at the station. But instead of obeying the officer, he punches Dave in the face and starts running, but it didn't take long for Officer Dave to catch him, so Dave put Zits in a cell. While he is there, he meets a child who is 2 years older than him. Zits named Justice. My first real friend", Zits thought, so when they both got out of prison, the court took Zits somewhere where he had hidden two weapons, a pistol and a paintball gun. During the day, Zits would run towards people at chance with the paintball gun and laughed at the way they screamed, cried or fell to the ground. In his mind it was hilarious, but in others they thought they were going to die and be taken away from the world. late in the day... middle of paper... like supposed to use it to kill people at the bank So he goes to tell Officer Dave everything and as a result, Dave became the adoptive father. by Zits. Activity #2 The author chose the title Flight because it explains why Zits ends up in different places and different years. Like he doesn't go crazy, but he goes back and forth in time to. discovering who and what he really is because his mother died when he was young and his father left. So he never really had the opportunity to know his culture. But going back in time helps him learn more about the Indians and their way of life. Also how the whites were soldiers and how they were going to destroy the Indian camps and rape their children. Activity #3 The settings of this novel took place in many different locations, such as an Indian camp for example. The genre of this novel is also historical fiction.