But when Steven, the boyfriend, makes him a present of a new pigeon, he is more able to accept what is going to happen, and he lets his favourite go. At the start of the story the old man shuts up his favourite pigeon, rather than let it fly. (He disapproves of Steven’s appearance and his father’s job.) The old man argues with Alice about her behaviour, and complains to his daughter, Alice’s mother (Lucy). He has seen his other granddaughters leave home, marry and grow up, and he is both possessive of Alice and jealous of Steven, her boyfriend. What happens in Flight?Īn old man (unnamed) who keeps pigeons, worries about his granddaughter, Alice. In 1949, she moved to London, where her first novel, The Grass is Singing, was published in 1950. At six years old, she moved to Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia), where she attended a girls’ school. The author, Doris Lessing was born in 1919, in Khermanhah in Persia (now Iran). Flight was published in 1957, in a collection of short stories entitled The Habit of Loving. It may also be helpful to the general reader who is interested in the stories of Doris Lessing. It should be useful to students from all parts of the world, though I have written it specifically to support students in England and Wales preparing for GCSE exams in English and English literature.
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