How do the authors of any three stories in the Anthology deal with the subject change?

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               How do the authors of any three stories       

      in the Anthology deal with the     

      subject change?

The authors in all three stories are similar in many different ways. However they are somewhat different as they all have different meanings but in the end the event that has happened to the characters in each of the stories is life changing. The three stories are called 'Your Shoes' which is written by Michèle Roberts who is a novelist and poet, 'Superman and Paula Brown's new Snowsuit' which is written by Sylvia Plath who is also a poet and a novelist. The last story is called 'The End of Something' is written by Ernest Hemingway who published this short story in 1938.

In all three stories the main event is 'change'. In 'Your Shoes' we see a lot of the change through the emotion of the mother.This is written as a first person narrative with the speaker telling us the story and her emotions. Her thoughts are mixed and tumble out at us , this shows her confused and emotional state at the moment. She is obviously in pain "If I wrap my arms around myself and hold tight it keeps the pain in." (lines 21 - 22), but recalls much of her own pain from her childhood and the influence her mother had on her. The speaker ends up curled in a foetal position sucking on the shoelaces,these enable her to feel closer to her daughter, but it is as if she has become the child now. In the last lines she imagines her daughter home with her, but could also be translating her own feelings for her mother into the situation. The last line could be her professing her love to her own mother, something she hasn't done and should have done.

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This storyline can relate to a real life situation. The author relates to her childhood later on in the story and her relationship with her parents. This shows that she is understanding as she might of thought about running away when she was a child and that its easy to do when your angry at your parents.The change in 'Superman and Paula Brown's new snowsuit' is very different to the one in Your Shoes as the change in Your Shoes in a much more serious one and could change a relationship forever however this one can be sorted more easily, ...

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