Summary of your shoes by michele Roberts?

Answer 1

Books are very portable. You can read them anywhere. A nice comfy chair in the living room, under a tree, on a beach, in bed are all wonderful places to read a book You can even read them in study hall or the library.

Answer 2

"Your Shoes" by Michele Roberts is a short story that explores themes of identity and self-discovery through the protagonist's reflection on her relationship with her deceased mother. Through the symbolism of her mother's shoes, the protagonist confronts unresolved emotions and ultimately gains a deeper understanding of herself and her family history. The story captures the complexity of mother-daughter relationships and the impact of loss on personal growth.

Answer 3

The story is a monologue, spoken by a woman whose daughter has left home - the speaker reflects on her own past, her relations with her parents and the now-vanished daughter. At the end of the story she seems to think that her daughter has returned, but this appears to be a fantasy.

Your Shoes is very much about the ways in which parents and children communicate, or fail to do so. Michèle Roberts considers how parents can oppress children by trying to live through them, and how we confuse material gifts with real concern for others' welfare. The story looks at ideas of self-knowledge and self-deception - but ends with an emphatic denial of what the reader sees to be true. The story also, therefore, makes us question the judgment and truthfulness or sanity of the narrator.

This story seems on the surface to have quite a lot in common with Doris Lessing's Flight, in looking at the relationships between generations and the ways in which young people become independent. But structurally it is very different - in Flight, the old man moves on and accepts his grand-daughter's growing up as necessary and healthy. In this story the mother refuses to move on - where the old man lets his favourite pigeon go, the narrator of Your Shoes shuts herself, her memories and her daughter's shoes away, locking out her husband, who might threaten her fantasy with an explanation of how things really are.