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Anthology Revision - Prose

Anthology Revision - Prose. Flight By Doris Lessing. Flight – Plot Summary. Story about an old man, his daughter, and granddaughter, who live together (with the daughter’s husband).

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Anthology Revision - Prose

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  1. Anthology Revision - Prose Flight By Doris Lessing

  2. Flight – Plot Summary • Story about an old man, his daughter, and granddaughter, who live together (with the daughter’s husband). • Granddaughter is 18 and wants to get married – he doesn’t want her to as she is the last of the children to ‘fly the nest’. • Feels he will be lonely with his daughter and her husband. • He speaks to her about the marriage and is upset she is in favour. • Daughter knows grandfather upset she loves another man more than him. • She knows he doesn’t want her to get married. • She wants grandfather to like her boyfriend, Steven. • Steven brings a gift of a pigeon for the grandfather who keeps homing pigeons. • Grandfather is pleased with gift and puts it in pigeon loft. • He takes out favourite pigeon and lifts her into the air. • All pigeons fly into air but come back down again. • In the end grandfather realises he must let his granddaughter go.

  3. Flight - Task • What are the themes of this story? • Do they replicate any themes of the previous two stories studied?

  4. Flight - Task • How is the connection between the homing pigeons and the granddaughter relevant? • What evidence can you find?

  5. Flight – Extended Task • How do the endings of Chemistry and Flight differ? What effect does each have on the reader?

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