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"Compare the parents in 'Your Shoes' and 'Growing Up' and what they learn about themselves."
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"Compare the parents in 'Your Shoes' and 'Growing Up' and what they learn about themselves." 'Your Shoes' by Michèle Roberts and 'Growing Up' by Joyce Cary are two very different short stories. They both, however, involve one parent who seems to be in a state of uncertainty regarding their child or children. I feel that, having studies both, each parent needs to learn something about their own lives in order to apply the understanding to their jobs as parents. Roberts and Cary both present the children in their short stories as individual human beings. It has come as a surprise to both parents that their children need to be understood and that they might actually need to get to know their offspring as people. In the case of the mother in 'Your Shoes', however, this might actually be too late. Beginning to read 'Your Shoes', the reader is aware that the narration...
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