Flight

Plot Flight is deliberately vague about many aspects of the plot, but as you will see the characters in the story give plenty of scope for investigation. ‘Now you stay there’ ‘Can’t we keep her a bit longer?’ “He lifted the bird on his wrist, and watched it soar.” Summary Read More…

The End of Something

Plot The End of Something seems to be a fairly common story of a boy breaking up with a girl. Very little actually happens. It is the way the characters react, and how the setting mirrors the action, which give the story its intensity and depth. “there was nothing of the mill left” “What don’t [...]

Superman and Paula Brown’s New Snowsuit

Plot   In the first paragraph of the story, we learn that the story is set in winter, in the ‘year the war began’, which was thirteen years before. World War Two began in Europe in 1939, but the USA didn’t enter until 1941, so we have to imagine the story was written in 1954 [...]