COMPARISON BETWEEN “BORDERS”, “SATURDAY CLIMBING” AND “MIRRO

Pride is not such a good thing to have and can bring one down at times and the characters in the short stories displays a common trait of pride. King’s story talk about a proudly static mother, who is trying to cross the border to meet her proudly dynamic daughter Laetitia but she is not willing to declare her citizenship as American or Canadian because she is really proud of being Blackfoot. “It would have been easier if [she] had just said “Canadian” and had been done with it but [we] could see that she is not going to do that.”(24) Her daughter laetitia is full of pride too. She leaves home and went to Salt Lake City to prove that she can live on her own and can do whatever she wa

The three short stories talks about the main theme of pride, family values and media power and their effect on characters. The characters go through different kind of experiences in their respective situations and through the process they mature and grow. In the end each author tries to convey that the different situations we all go through in life whether good or bad helps us to grow and mature as individuals and as family members. Therefore one must learn to deal with and accept the changes in his or her life.

Obstacles in family relationships can create problems and all the three authors focused on this theme. The characters struggle to get along with their families. In the short story “Borders” the two main characters mother and her daughter Laetitia does not share a healthy relationship. Laetitia is a high handed character who wants things her way. She wants freedom and decides to move to Salt Lake City despite her mother’s disapproval. She tells her mother that “[She] can go and come as [she] please.”(21) According to Laetitia “[Mother] is just angry because [she] wants to see the world.”(22). But towards the end when mother finally crosses the border and meets her she realizes that her real place is back home with her family. “Laetitia said that she is thinking about moving back, and mom told her to do so as she pleased, and laetitia said she would.”(31) Similarly the story “Saturday climbing” is all about the relation between father and a daughter. Barry, a single parent of a teenager, encounters difficulty in his role as a father. He has trouble keeping track of what Moira, his daughter, does and Moira is willing to let Barry in to her world

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