... two characters as they are seen as possessive. Both short stories have a similar theme as they both deal with troubled teens and how the mother and daughter relate with each other. Both mothers in the story are very fond of their daughters and feel they have a good relationship with them. The style and language is similar as they both describe in detail actions and passages of conversation. Your shoes, "If I wrap my arms around myself and hold tight it keeps the pain in. There is both a good use of symbolism between the both stories in Flight Alice is compared to the grandfather's favourite pigeon and in Your shoes the neatly kept shoes. In Flight Stephen gives the grandfather the gift of a new bird. The grandfather realises his favourite pigeon has flown away i.e. Alice has gone to Stephen. How are the two stories different? In Flight the granddaughter is different to ...

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