Kimberley Jayne Fletcher :: English Literature

Kimberley Jayne FletcherThe links and connections between Flight-by Doris Lessing, Your piazza-by Michele Roberts, Chemistry-by Graham Swift, demigod andPaula Browns modernistic snowsuit-by Sylvia Plath, and growing up-by JoyceCarey.The main theme in entirely the pieces of prose is family.In Flight the grandpa and grandlady friend growing up and having tolet go because the granddaughter is getting married, and its hard forfamily to let people you love go.In Your Shoes the mum is upset about her child running apart and istelling the audience/reader how she is feeling and how certain shewill pass off back because she hasnt got her new shoes she bought her.In Chemistry the relationships betweens the granddad, mum, parole andnew male childfriend and how their lives change when their close family die.In Superman and Paula Browns new snowsuit the boys family andfriends non believing him that he didnt push Paula brown in oil slickand ruining her new snowsuit.In Growing up the dad i s too tied up with his work during the weekand iodin weekend he decides to spend time with his two daughters and herealises how often they have grown up.Both Chemistry and Flight the children feel betrayed by theirgranddad. The boy in Chemistry feels betrayed by his whole familybut his granddad the most because he has just committed suicide to get out-of-door from his daughter who has changed because of her new boyfriendand the boy think that his granddad is the solely one who understandshim and now that hes gone he has no one same(p) his granddad.The girl in Flight is feeling betrayed by her granddad because sheknows how a lot he loves his birds and he also loved her as much as hisbirds. So when he let go of his birds it was symbolical of him lettinggo of her, so she can have freedom in her life and not have himinterfering in her life. But the irony is that she wants him in herlife. tout ensemble of the stories portray betrayed but by different people, Flightand Chemistry the b oy and girl betrayed by their granddad. YourShoes the arrive is betrayed by her daughter.In Your Shoes the mother is talking about what her daughter is likeand how she feels betrayed by her because her daughter had alwaysliked her grandmother more than her and she had always hated hermother because of the way she treated her when she was young.Superman and Paula Browns new snowsuit the child is betrayed bytheir family and friends.In Superman and Paula Browns new snowsuit the writer doesnt tell us