Your shoes and flight

Flight and Your station both have many similarities. They both deal with growing up as the characters change and build up passim the stories. In Flight the grandfather is stubborn at the start of the story but as the play goes on, he decides to give up and let the grand little girl free. Your shoes deals with growing up as well, but the characters change slightly this is introducen when the m another(prenominal) finally writes her welfares to her daughter despite showing so often love for her which makes it unenviable for her to say her welfares.Flight starts with grandfather holding onto his favourite pigeon. Grandfather lets the pigeon fly but as soon as the pigeon spreads his wings he captures it again and puts the pigeon into a small box where it cant escape He deliberately held out his wrist for the bird to take flight and caught it again at the moment it spread its wings. He would like to lock his granddaughter up the same way he locks up the pigeons to make his granddaugh ter stay away from Steve. He wants to control his granddaughter like he controls the pigeons.This pigeon is a symbol reflected towards the granddaughter. The granddaughter has an attractive description this shows that the pigeon is compared to the granddaughter. They both are attractive and he controls them.Your Shoes starts with the mother writing a letter to her unnamed daughter. The mother starts of manifestation I thought I knew you as well as I know this ho give this shows that the daughter was hiding something or her daughter has grown up to a point where she has started to keep secrets. Whereas in Flight, the granddaughter doesnt keep secrets, she couldve kept secrets and ran away like the daughter in Your shoes but she was so mature and intelligent, so se decided to tell her parents about he kin with the postmans son. She did that because she knew shes old enough to make her decisions and her parents wont go against itThe main similarities between Flight and Your shoes are study non living things or animals with human being. In Flight the grandfather compares his granddaughter to pigeons, while in Your Shoes the mother is comparing her daughter to her daughters shoes. Flight deals mainly with the relationship between Alice and her grandfather and Your Shoes deals with the relationship between the mother and daughter, but in addition between the mother and the father the daughter and her father.Your shoes and Flight use metaphors to describe their relationships, Flight uses the metaphor of pigeons and Your Shoes uses the metaphor of shoes to describe the relationship.Both stories talk about love and loneliness. In Flight the granddad does not want to let his granddaughter leave, because he is scared to be all. Cant we keep her a bit longer this quote indicates the strong love which the grandfather feels for his granddaughter. In Your Shoes the daughter has left substructure and the mother is desperate to have her daughter back, because she loves h er and feels lonely with out her I knew youd come back this quote indicates the hunger of the mother for her daughter.Both stories also have the experience of past life. In Your Shoes the mother describes her experience with her mother showing how difficult it was for her to live with, but she still did. This actually shows how the coevals has changed. Similarly in Flight the mother uses her experience to try to convince the grandfather that how happy she was when she got married to her husband said in the following quote.The al-Qaeda about freedom is being asked in both stories. In Your Shoes the daughter runs away because the lack of freedom was given to her, although the freedom was too much compared to the freedom her mother was given, but in the eyes of her daughter and the generation she was living in made her feel the freedom was too less. The mother tries to show how little freedom she had and she still cope with it, shown in the following quote. This shows that the mother is trying to use reverse psychology to win her daughter back.On the other hand Flight has the same sort of theory. The granddaughter is asking for freedom although she has given the freedom by her mother, but the grandfather doesnt want her to get married thats because he doesnt want to lose her and doesnt want to lose the moments he once had with his granddaughter. Think your old enough to get married hey this shows he his having a go at the granddaughter and trying to convince her that your not old enough to get married.Both stories deal with maturity and immaturity. Flight deals with immaturity in the way that the grandfather is greedy of granddaughters boyfriend because he feels the boyfriend is going to replace She did not turn. She had forgotten him. Along the road came the young man Steventhe old man stiffened as he watched the gate swing back and the couple embrace. This quote shows that the grandfather feels upset that the granddaughter seems to have replaced him with an intruder.The grandfather is also scared of him being left alone when she leaves, which makes him think that without her he wont be happy. Flight also deals with maturity in the way that the granddaughter is being questioned very angrily but she replies back in a nice manner, and she said in a pert voice hullo, granddad. Politely she moved towards him, after a lingering backward glance at the road. The calm and polite manner shows how mature she is. Compared to flight Your shoes only shows immaturity of the daughter who left because of her father having an argument with her, because she went to a night club and came back home very late and was drunk, which made the father very angry, and he called her a dirty slut and other rude comments. By her father calling her a dirty slut made her fell insecure and trapped so she decided to leave.Although the main theme of Flight and Your Shoes are similar, however structurally they are different, because in Flight the grandfather didnt want th e accept the choice of the granddaughter but in the end they both came to a solution and the grandfather ends up accepting her choice. While in Your Shoes the mother doesnt want to move on. She constantly refuses to put the welfare of her daughter first, because she knows that she wont get this letter and wont come back. thereof the relationship between the mother and the daughter is not re-established and doesnt have the happy ending as Flight