Compare and Contrast The Darkness Out There with Your Shoes with particular Reference to Character, Setting, Narrative Technique and Historical Content
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Lisa Gray 10L 28th September 00 Compare and Contrast 'The Darkness Out There' with 'Your Shoes' with particular Reference to Character, Setting, Narrative Technique and Historical Content! The stories are set in different times. However because the Mother in 'Your Shoes' probably grew up in the time that 'The Darkness Out There' was set in, she applies the ideas and morals of what life was like then. She often relates back to when she was a young girl and what her mother was like. "I grew up in a very old-fashioned family." 'Your Shoes' is set in the nineties and 'The Darkness Out There' is set around the seventies. We know this because in the story Mrs Rutter asks Sandra to wash her 'pastel nylons' these were around in the 1970's. "She squeezed the pastel nylons, the floating sinuous tights." The title's of each story has hidden layers and meanings. Both words, 'Shoes' and...

