15 TH C HAPTER F LIGHTS OF F ANCY Jevh Maravilla Period 6

T HE B EGINNING 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

S ONG OF S OLOMON In 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.

F LIGHT IS F REEDOM ? 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 V ERY O LD M AN WITH E NORMOUS W INGS Gabriel 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.

G ENERAL C ONCLUSION With 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).

G REAT E XPECTATIONS “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).

E VERYDAY L IVES Even though People can’t fly, there are other ways that we see flight around us everyday. There are airplanes, Birds, Insects, etc.

W ORK C ITED Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations, New York: Bantam Dell, Print. Foster, Thomas C. How to Read Literature Like a Professor. New York: Harper-Collins Publishers, Inc., Print.