The way William was portrayed as a character and the way he and Fedaku conversed was really interesting. Fekadu and William bond with their normal enemy, establishing a racial generalization in Flight Patterns. When William recounts his trepidation about flying after 9/11, admitting that he intended to be surrounded by "a quarter-century, lover, gun enthusiast, serial executioner, psychopath, Ollie North, Norman Schwarzkopf, conservative, Agent Orange, post-traumatic anxiety problem, CIA, FBI, programmed weapon, shiny bomb, laser tracking bastards” as he flew, Fekadu shouts “imagine having to be surrounded by white cops!” (58). Fekadu and William are united precisely by the fact that they are a minority who have been burned by the generalizations of white men. Be that as it may, both Fekadu and William exude contempt towards white men, as a rule. While this surrounding white Americans as nothing more than oblivious, traditionalist obsessive workers was likely intentional in conveying Alexie's predominant message that "we are all caught up in the thoughts of other groups" and the overwhelming population may be equally caught up in generalizations such as minorities: the creator uses representations of white Americans so racially charged that there is no desire for the extraordinary quality of those generalizations (57); this is the essence of the problem with Alexie