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Prose Study. Short stories have a lot to offer that novels cannot. We looked at three short stories and focussed on Your Shoes and Flight. We briefly looked at Growing Up. "Your Shoes" is about a mother who is writing to her daughter who has run away. Writing the letter is pointless because the mother has reason to believe the daughter is living on the streets and there fore has no address to send the letter to. The daughter ran away because her mother had been treating her like a child and buying her things that she had wanted when she was a child but never got, like the shoes and the curtains. In writing the letter the mother is getting off her chest all the things she wished she could tell her daughter. Because of the mothers restricted and suppressed childhood she disrespects her own mother and calls her a 'tart' and...

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