Flight/Your Shoes: A comparitive essay -- English Literature

flight/Your Shoes A comparitive essayIn this essay I will be comparing Flight by Doris Lessing and YourShoes by Michle Roberts. The content and style for both stories aresimilar in some ways and different in other ways. For example, themain problem in both stories is the girlfriend leaving home for thefirst time. Another example of a difference is Flight is written inthird-person whereas Your Shoes is written as an interior monologue.The difficulties about the daughters leaving are in Flight, thegrandfather is reluctant to let his granddaughter go off and marry.This is because she is his deary granddaughter and his last. Heconfronted her, his eyes narrowed, shoulders hunched, tight in a hardknot of pain which included the preening birds, the sunlight, theflowers. He said Think youre old sufficiency to go courting, hey? Healso does not like Steven, the postmasters son, and is maybe jealousof him and how he crumb win over his granddaughter better than he canhimself. Waiting for St even, hey? he said, his fingers curling likeclaws into his palm. Any objection? she asked him lightly, refusingto look at him.In Your Shoes the mother has a bigger problem because her daughterhas already left and she does not know where she is. To justify thisshe goes mad and pretends that she is talking to her daughter througha pair of white trainers, the most expensive and absolute item that themother bought her daughter before she left. Ive tied the shoeslaces together so they wont get separated or lost. unobjectionable laces, thatI washed and ironed. These shoes represent what the mother would likeher daughter to be, perfect. I locked the wardrobe door on thoserebellious shoes.... ...d to Flight, theJustin Liu Maine A English AXSFlight/Your Shoes (cont)mothers condition clearly gets worse and lapses into madness at theend. Laces like strings of white liquorice. They taste sweet. Again in that respect is the symbolism of the shoes and again it represents the waythe mother wou ld like her daughter to be.I prefer Flight to Your Shoes because the story is much clearerand you get to chequer everyones point of view whereas in Your Shoesthe storyline is not so clear and harder to understand because onlyone person is speaking. However, Flight has slight detail than YourShoes because there are many more people to focus on. For example, inYour Shoes you know who is still alive and who is not whereas inFlight it is not as clear. However, I enjoyed both stories andthought that they had more similarities than differences.