Discussion: The need to break away from childhood surroundings

In the following, we will provide you with some inspirational ideas that can help when you have to discuss the need to break away from childhood surroundings.

Nowadays, very few people live their whole lives in just one place. As in “Flight”, young people feel the need to break away from their childhood surroundings. The text presents both Eugene and the narrator as dreadin…

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Questions for consideration

In your essay, you could also think of other possible reasons for wanting to move away. Consider the following questions:

• Does living in the same place create a sense of stagnation, personally or professionally? Is it necessary to move away and see something different, in order to develop as a person as intellectually?
• Can leaving childhood surroun…