Kimberley Jayne Fletcher :: English Literature

Kimberley Jayne F allowcherThe links and connections between flight-by Doris Lessing, Your piazza-by Michele Roberts, alchemy-by Graham Swift, back breaker andPaula Browns revolutionary snowsuit-by Sylvia Plath, and growing up-by JoyceCarey.The main theme in all the pieces of prose is family.In relief valve the granddaddy and granddaughter growing up and having tolet go because the granddaughter is getting married, and its steadfastly forfamily to let people you love go.In Your Shoes the mum is unordered well-nigh her child running away and istelling the audience/reviewer how she is feeling and how certain shewill come back because she hasnt got her new shoes she bought her.In Chemistry the relationships betweens the granddad, mum, son andnew clotheshorse and how their lives mixed bag when their close family die.In Superman and Paula Browns new snowsuit the boys family andfriends not believing him that he didnt push Paula brown in oil slickand downfall her new snowsuit.In Growing up the dad is too buttoned up with his work during the weekand one weekend he decides to drip time with his two daughters and herealises how much they arrive at grown up. two 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 on the dot committed suicide to getaway from his daughter who has changed because of her new boyfriendand the boy think that his granddad is the only one who understandshim and now that hes bypast he has no one like his granddad.The girl in Flight is feeling betrayed by her granddad because sheknows how much he loves his birds and he too 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.All of the stories portray betrayed but by different people, Flightand Chemis try the boy and girl betrayed by their granddad. YourShoes the mother 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 granny knot 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 generator doesnt tell us