Kimberley Jayne Fletcher
The links and connections between ‘Flight’-by Doris Lessing, ‘Your
Shoes’-by Michele Roberts, ‘Chemistry’-by Graham Swift, ‘Superman and
Paula Browns new snowsuit’-by Sylvia Plath, and ‘growing up’-by Joyce
Carey.
The main theme in all the pieces of prose is ‘family’.
In ‘Flight’ the granddad and granddaughter growing up and having to
let go because the granddaughter is getting married, and it’s hard for
family to let people you love go.
In ‘Your Shoes’ the mum is upset about her child running away and is
telling the audience/reader how she is feeling and how certain she
will come back because she hasn’t got her new shoes she bought her.
In ‘Chemistry’ the relationships betweens the granddad, mum, son and
new boyfriend and how their lives change when their close family die.
In ‘Superman and Paula Browns new snowsuit’ the boys family and
friends not believing him that he didn’t push Paula brown in oil slick
and ruining her new snowsuit.
In ‘Growing up’ the dad is too tied up with his work during the week
and one weekend he decides to spend time with his two daughters and he
realises how much they have grown up.
Both ‘Chemistry’ and ‘Flight’ the children feel betrayed by their
granddad. The boy in ‘Chemistry’ feels betrayed by his whole family
but his granddad the most because he has just committed suicide to get
away from his daughter who has changed because of her new boyfriend
and the boy think that his granddad is the only one who understands
him and now that he's gone he has no one like his granddad.
The girl in ‘Flight’ is feeling betrayed by her granddad because she
knows how much he loves his birds and he also loved her as much as his
birds. So when he let go of his birds it was symbolical of him letting
go of her, so she can have freedom in her life and not have him
interfering in her life. But the irony is that she wants him in her
life.
All of the stories portray betrayed but by different people, ‘Flight’
and ‘Chemistry’ the boy and girl betrayed by their granddad. ‘Your
Shoes’ the mother is betrayed by her daughter.
In ‘Your Shoes’ the mother is talking about what her daughter is like
and how she feels betrayed by her because her daughter had always
liked her grandmother more than her and she had always hated her
mother because of the way she treated her when she was young.
‘Superman and Paula Browns new snowsuit’ the child is betrayed by
their family and friends.
In ‘Superman and Paula Browns new snowsuit’ the writer doesn’t tell us
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feeling scorned by the woman he loved, threw the dead seagull at her feet and
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One example of symbolism seen in the play is with the dead canary bird. As the women
love. He goes to see her in her place of rest, and as he drinks the
her home because she unwilling to accept life without him. She is scared of losing things and life