Flight/Your Shoes: A comparitive essay
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Justin Liu Maine A English AXS Flight/Your Shoes In this essay I will be comparing 'Flight' by Doris Lessing and 'Your Shoes' by Michèle Roberts. The content and style for both stories are similar in some ways and different in other ways. For example, the main problem in both stories is the daughter leaving home for the first time. Another example of a difference is 'Flight' is written in third-person whereas 'Your Shoes' is written as an interior monologue. The difficulties about the daughters leaving are: in 'Flight', the grandfather is reluctant to let his granddaughter go off and marry. This is because she is his favourite granddaughter and his last. 'He confronted her, his eyes narrowed, shoulders hunched, tight in a hard knot of pain which included the preening birds, the sunlight, the flowers. He said: "Think you're old enough to go courting, hey?"' He also does not like Steven, the...

