Why do people have the tendency to betray others? Most betray to feel power, to convey fear. Others betray without even knowing it. Throughout the book, Flight, by Sherman Alexie, Zits and everyone he embodies has at least been betrayed or has betrayed others. One of the first betrayals displayed in Flight was the moment Zit’s father left Zits while his mother was giving birth to him. The moment his father left him was the trigger of his anger. Some call it the moment, when the trigger was pulled which sparked the flow of the bullet. Zits being the bullet. Zit’s father is described as a man who loved his vodka more than his family, a cruel magician who vanished two minutes after his birth. He left Zits because he thought he wasn't cut-out to become a father:…show more content… Zit’s second person he embodies is an ten-eleven year old kid with no voice box. He can’t speak because a white man cut off his vocal cord. While he possesses the Little Indian Boy, he sees Crazy Horse, a warrior that could be equivalent to a god. A Native American man who killed hundreds of white men and no camera could ever photograph him. However, Crazy Horse dies in the worst way possible. He was betrayed by his friend, a fellow Indian. The man who killed him was named Little Big Man, another Indian Warrior. Zits states, “Another Indian warrior will betray Crazy Horse. Little Big Man will hold Crazy Horse’s arm as a white soldier punches a bayonet into the strange one’s belly. A bayonet will kill Crazy Horse.” (Alexie 77) This quote exemplifies the fact that people could also get betrayed from people they trust, and people who you think are fighting for the same cause. Little Big Man was working for the American side, working with a white man to kill a fellow Indian warrior. An Indian warrior that killed a bunch of white men, maybe that’s why the Americans wanted to kill him, because he was a threat to the American
