Part of what he learns in being in his father’s body, is that even his father who he has always viewed as the bad guy, acts from his own pain. He makes poor choices but still demands respect. He stumbles around as his father repeating “I want some respect” (141). He wants a rich white man who passes by to show him some respect, but he refuses to show respect to people like Pam and Paul. Zits starts to understand his father's pain and begins to give his father some forgiveness. He realizes that his father wasn’t as awful as he could have been like his grandfather was to his
Part of what he learns in being in his father’s body, is that even his father who he has always viewed as the bad guy, acts from his own pain. He makes poor choices but still demands respect. He stumbles around as his father repeating “I want some respect” (141). He wants a rich white man who passes by to show him some respect, but he refuses to show respect to people like Pam and Paul. Zits starts to understand his father's pain and begins to give his father some forgiveness. He realizes that his father wasn’t as awful as he could have been like his grandfather was to his