What are the different between the two families depicted in “Flight” & your “shoes”

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What are the different between the two families depicted in "Flight" & your "shoes"

The story Flight is about an old man trying to come to terms with his granddaughter growing up. It is form a collection of short stories.

The scene is set and the mood of all the characters are established right at beginning of the story. The old man has some pigeons, which he keep as pets.

"Flight" is based around the similarity between the way the old man looks after his pigeons, and how he would like his granddaughters to be controlled and trained the same way. The pigeons are symbols representing his granddaughters. We see, however, that the birds return home. Whether his granddaughters will is another matter.

There is a contrast when you look at the syntax in "Your Shoes."Which is different from Flight. Here, we have a first person narrative, and because a character is speaking to us, we have the rhythms of speech, changes of direction in the flow of sentences and short, broken speech.This not the cone in Flight which is third person narrative and less personal.
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Structuarally, the story is very clever. We gradually learn about the woman speaking. At first, we sympathise with her; then learn how she has been horrible to her daughter; how she has tried to control her and keep her unspoilt like the shoes; how she has made the decisions for her; and how, just as she did not get on with her mother, so too this mother-daughter relationship has also collapsed.

We are convinced, from the words coming from the woman's own mouth, that the failings are her fault. And we move to a final scene in ...

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