Perspectives

In order for you to analyse and interpret Shirley Golden’s short story, “The Right Time to Fly”, in a more comprehensive manner, we recommend that you also look at it from different perspectives related to literary period and similar works.

Literary period

Shirley Golden is a contemporary author writing stories and novels which fall into the genre of modern and post-modern realistic fiction.

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Works in the same genre

In order for you to better understand contemporary fiction, we recommend that you read stories like “Bangana” (2014) by CJ Hauser,...

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Works with the same theme

The theme of freedom and youngsters’ rebellion against rules is also explored in the short story “Rendezvous” by Daniel Ransom (Contexts, pp. 51-53), but the short story focuses on a minor teenage girl and her need for...

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