Kimberley Jayne Fletcher :: English Literature

Kimberley Jayne FletcherThe links and connections between outflow-by Doris Lessing, YourShoes-by Michele Roberts, Chemistry-by Graham Swift, Superman andPaula Browns new s straightsuit-by Sylvia Plath, and suppuration up-by JoyceCarey.The main theme in all the pieces of prose is family.In Flight the granddad and granddaughter growing up and having tolet go because the granddaughter is getting married, and its punishing forfamily to let people you love go.In Your Shoes the mum is upset about her child running away and istelling the audience/reader how she is smack 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 boyfriend and how their lives change 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 ruining her new snowsuit.In evolution up the dad is too tied up with his work during the weekand one weekend he decides to spend time with his two daughters and herealises how a great deal they have grown up.Both Chemistry and Flight the children feel betrayed by theirgranddad. The boy in Chemistry feels betrayed by his whole familybut his granddad the roughly because he has just 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 gone 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 as well 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 liberty 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 Chemistry the boy and girl betrayed by their gra nddad. 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 grandmother 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 writer doesnt tell us