15TH CHAPTERFLIGHTS OF FANCYJevh Maravilla

Period 6

THE BEGINNING Humans couldn’t be able to fly, even

with all the animals around that could, why cant we?

We’ve been thinking of flying since our earliest memories.

The stories of flying “...is a wonder…” (Foster 127).

There are stories with Superheroes to Magical Realism that includes some type of flying.

Superheroes including Superman and a lot of others.

Magical Realism such as the book Song of Solomon “…and its highly ambiguous ending…” (Foster 127).

Literary Characters Fly

SONG OF SOLOMONIn Song of Solomon, Toni

Morrison, the writer, uses “…the myth of the flying Africans introduces a specific historical and racial reference…” (Foster 127).

The general theme of the story is that flying symbolizes freedom. Song of Solomon talks about slavery.

FLIGHT IS FREEDOM?Flight is Freedom “…doesn’t

always work out that way, but the basic principle is pretty sound” (Foster 128).

For Example, Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus tells about how a woman gets wings and is put in a Circus for the audience’s entertainment.

A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGSGabriel Márquez’s story, A Very

Old Man with Enormous Wings, A story “…with winged characters make up a pretty small genre, but those few stories hold a special fascination.” (Foster 130).

A family finds an old man and claims he is an Angel. They use him to become rich, which is until they watch him fly away.

GENERAL CONCLUSIONWith all these books, “These

flights of fancy allow, us, as readers, to take off, to let our imaginations take flight!” (Foster 134).

With all this; “…we can soar into interpretation and speculation” (Foster 134).

GREAT EXPECTATIONS“Flight is Freedom” represents

how Pip gained freedom when he left to “the journey from our town to the metropolis…” to become a gentleman in London. (Dickens 155).

EVERYDAY LIVESEven though People can’t fly,

there are other ways that we see flight around us everyday. There are airplanes, Birds, Insects, etc.

WORK CITEDDickens, Charles. Great

Expectations, New York: Bantam Dell, 1986. Print.

Foster, Thomas C. How to Read Literature Like a Professor. New York: Harper-Collins Publishers, Inc., 2003. Print.