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The quote from Martin Luther King Jr, “ The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people,” is demonstrated in the novel “Flight” by Sherman Alexie. The book has many events where the good does not do anything but watch or ignore the bad that surrounded them. Zits transforms into a drunk homeless Indian, who is beaten up multiple times and has a serious health condition which he could die from. People around him would either ignore him or run away from him because he was a drunk homeless person that gives attitude to everyone. Even though he needed medical attention he was ignored by many people and also got beaten up. It shows how the good don't care or don't think about the homeless because they don't think that it's their problem to deal with or that they are a lower priority and that their problems are more important. But if the good did care and didn't do anything about it maybe because they are to afraid to approach the person because they are scared of what might could happen to them or don't have the courage to do so. The worst thing a person may do is that they don't do anything about the problem and watch it happen until it gets too late.