Consider the ways in which the short stories studied deal with relationships between loved ones.

The Narrator's relationship with her own mother was not good. The Narrator's mother didn't like her daughter that much she preferred her son. She didn't like her daughter that much because her daughter was small girl and she liked her father more than her mother.

In the story she describes her own mother. She says that her mother liked drinking and smoking like her own daughter. When ever her mother does the housework a cigarette is hanging out from her mouth. Her mother thought that her daughter can never be a housewife but she surprised everyone when she got into a college to do domestic science.

Her mother told her how to do 'bridge roll filling for parties' and how to make a Yorkshire pudding for Sunday.

Her mother used to call her 'Miss la-di-da'. Narrator's mother lived her whole married life in a suburb in a detached house with 4 bedrooms and she thought it was a heaven. Her mother all ways used to hurt her but her mother used to be nice to her granddaughter. The narrator's mother spoiled her granddaughter. She loved her granddaughter more than her own daughter this was the cry of narrator's girlhood.

The story is modern because the girl running away from home smoking pot, drinking and bunking school.

The story 'Flight' is about a grandfather who loves homing pigeons. He has a granddaughter who has a boyfriend called Steve. Steve and the granddaughter are about to get married but the grandfather doesn't agree with her granddaughter but the mother does agree.

The grandfather doesn't agree but the mother agrees. The grandfather doesn't agree because he thinks that she is too young to get married and if she does, he will be left alone. The grandfather was feeding his pigeons in back garden, the fiancé comes and gives him a present it was a pigeon. The grandfather releases the pigeons at the end because he wants his granddaughter to be free, but the pigeons come back.

The pigeons represent the love the grandfather feels for his granddaughter.

The relationship between the grandfather and granddaughter is good, they like each other.

The grandfather is unhappy about the granddaughter getting married to her boyfriend Steve. He does not want her to get married because he will be lonely afterward when she married.

The grandfather own daughter married at age seventeen and she said her own daughter would get married anyone she wants at any age. The grandfather disagrees but his own daughter agrees to let her daughter get married.

Grandfather says she is young to get married and he also says her daughter got married at age of seventeen so she doesn't mind bout her daughter to get married at age of eighteen.

I will take grandfather side because he is right that she is too young to be married. I think that the granddaughter should study and then get married.

The story happily ends but there is a positive ending to the story. The grandfather doesn't agree with her granddaughter to get married to Steve her boyfriend but at the end of the story the grandfather agrees to let her marry to Steve he realises the pigeons that rearrested the story and the granddaughter.

This shows it was any old story because my mum got married at age of eighteen.

But in these days the people get married over 20 years old I think that marriage should be done at age of 20 or 21.

In a marriage in the 1890's women has to listen to her husband whatever the husband tells her to do the wife has to do it. The men had the most power. They men can rule over their wife. The women were not allowed to go to school. They were meant to stay home and look after the children. The women were not allowed to be seen with other men and the man were not allowed to be seen with other woman, when both are married or engaged.

In 1890's when you are married you cannot get a divorce. If you get divorced your own family will disown you because it bought shame on your family.

Phillip durance was the person who tells the story. Phillip who has just came back from another town because he works there. He was waiting for his mum to come and pick him up from the station but she didn't so he went home by himself and when he arrived home his mum was really happy that he has come back but there was so much happiness on his mums face after a long time but he didn't know what she was happy about he thought that she knew "that her son was in love and getting engaged" with someone but no it was that she was engaged to MR Nixon!!!!!!

Phillip Durance character is who cared for his mum a lot told her about everything he did, doesn't like hurting his mums feeling and always asked his mum before doing anything Sarah Durance mother of Phillip was about to marry Mr Nixon and Mrs Sarah Durance also cared a lot about his son Phillip so before she did something she use to ask Phillip if he is happy with it but this time she told him about the engagement bit to late. Looking at Sarah Durance she wasn't very young looking she was 45 years old and 25 years of widow and tempestuous married life behind and she was very sad lady from her heart but now she was about to start her life all over again and bring happiness to her life again after 25 years.

Mr Nixon, who owns 75 houses in the village very rich, has lots of his own factories and along time friend of Mrs Sarah Durance was about to marry Mrs Durance " he brought his burly powerful form into the lobby".

Phillip who was really shocked to hear that his mum is getting engage to Mr Nixon because he thought that his mum didn't have a life left behind her but it was not true she did. Mrs Durance was really excited then ever she has been " I perceived instantly that she was more excited then my arrival ordinarily made her," says Phillip. Mr Nixon is come for supper the table was for three persons Mrs Durance, Phillip Durance and MR Nixon and they all sat on table looking at each other Mr Nixon and Mrs Durance tell Phillip about they engagement.

Phillip who also loved someone in a town where he worked wanted to get engaged to his girlfriend and wanted to his mum about it but he didn't because he thought that if he did it will affect his mums engagement so he wrote a letter to his girlfriend saying that " he has not asked his mum about they engagement because his mum is getting engage so he does not want to affect her engagement by putting his engagement in" so he will ask her some time later, Phillip who after supper wanted to go and post the letter to his girlfriend explaining the situation he is in, was about to go to the post office where his mum tells him to take MR Nixon with him so that they get to know each other well. Mr Nixon and Phillip where near the post office where MR Nixon asks him that will he mind that if he becomes his father, Phillip thinks and reply no and after that Mr Nixon gets married to Mrs Durance and turn the friendship into a living relationship.

The story is telling as and giving us the message about love between mum and the son. Phillip character show that he loves his mum and will do anything to make his mum happy he will even give up his love for the love of his mum's.

Mrs Durance who was once a happy lady but then her life got turned over by she becoming a widow for 25years but then there was happiness in her life again, she was a very caring person, she loved her son and wanted to get married with Mr Nixon.

Mr Nixon was a rich person with lots of houses, farms and factories that he owned and wanted to get married with Mrs Durance.

The relationship between mother and the child is good. The child do thing before telling his mother and the mother don't do thing without telling her son. When he got engaged he didn't tell mum he didn't call on phone or wrote a letter to inform her that he is engaged but he went to the place where his mum lives and told her personally.

Phillip Durance has lot of positive reaction to the engage of his mother and Mr Nixon because Phillip Durance always thought that his mother will never have a life partner again in her life because she has been a widow for twenty-five year but now he see his mother really happy because she has found a life partner.

He doesn't tell her mother about the lady he is love into he is so happy he thinks the happy days for his mother has returned again for her life.

He was also very happy and shocked when he heard his mother got enraged and he was more happy because he because he hasn't seen his mother happy for a long time. He doesn't like hunting his mother feeling.

This story is about a boy called tony and he likes women so much that he is dating three at the same time. Tony thinks he is a ladies men. He is already engaged to a woman called milly Richards.