Can you make the case that the stories, etc. Flights is a compilation of stories and fragments featuring different characters-the whole of which barely seems to tie together. ( Follow-up to Question 1) How does the narrator work her idea, that movement is nobler than stasis, into the overarching theme for the various stories/essays in Flights?Ĥ. Having hardly led a stationary existence while growing up, what was it about her childhood that our narrator finds unfulfilling?ģ. Yet she concludes that the sedentary life is not for her:Ĭlearly I did not inherit whatever gene it is that makes it so that when you linger in a place you start to put down roots.… y roots have always been shallow.… I don’t know how to germinate. ( Follow-up to Question 1) The narrator recalls her childhood: her parents led an itinerant life, moving from place to place in their van, settling for only a year. At the onset of Flights, the narrator tells us that "a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence." What is her reasoning why does she make such a claim? Do you agree with her that journeys play a vital role in our lives?Ģ. We'll add publisher questions if and when they're available in the meantime, use our LitLovers talking points to help start a discussion for FLIGHTS … then take off on your own:ġ.
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