How much do you really love something? In the story “Flight,” by Doris Lessing, we see how much Grandad loves his granddaughter, and how he doesn’t want to give her up to someone else. The grandfather has to learn to let his granddaughter go. Alice, the granddaughter, has fallen in love with Steven, the postmaster’s boy. The grandfather gets angry because she is very special to him and he does not want to …showed first 75 words of 772 total…

…showed last 75 words of 772 total…marry him. By giving her gift to her grandfather, Alice shows him that she is not going to be completely gone from his life. This allows grandad to get over the fact that his granddaughter is going to be moving on with her life. Love is a strong thing, and many times we may not understand why things happen the way they do, but it is essential for us to be happy in our lives.