Flight Synthesis Page

Book: Flight 
By Sherman Alexie

Critical Thinking Question:What really hard things are happening in the text? Are these things happening in the world now? Where?

Child Abuse: Child abuse happens around the world everyday.

Text Evidence: "Then my new father took me into another dark room in the basement ,one without any trains, and did evil things to me. Things that hurt. Things that made me bleed"(page 75)
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Racism: Racism is also a really big issue that happens around the world

Text Evidence: "But no, he told me to wait a minute while he grabbed some paperwork.Then he went in the back room and came out with a shotgun. He called me a sand ni***r and he was going to blow off my head if I didn't get the f**k out of his place of business"(page 111)
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War Violence: War happens everyday across the world. It  kills hundreds of people.

Text Evidence: "No, those Indians down there killed a little girl. shot three arrows into her belly and left her to die. And two feet away from that little girl's lay the naked body of a woman. Three arrows in her belly too. A blond and blue-eyed woman, bloody and violated, her right hand forever reaching out toward the little girl" (page 87)
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Alcoholism: Lots of people get addicted to alcohol and in the long run, end up hurting them self or 
others.

"Well, I'm certainly a street drunk, a loser whose belly is torn apart by booze. That's why they call it rotgut"(page 132)

Connections: 
The thing about these topics is that they all really happen in real life. Many families get torn up destroyed because of these things. These are major issues in the world and it would be best for all If they stopped. Alexie did a great job incorporating these hard themes in to his book.