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In the short story Saturday Climbing, I believe the author is conveying that although our love for people can leave us wanting keep them safe and protect them with every ounce of our being we must allow them to make errors and grown even more so into the people we love. I witnessed W.D Valgardson do this in the text by using flashbacks, similes and metaphors. W.D Valgardson uses flashbacks in the Saturday Climbing to help the reader understand where the Barry (the father) is coming from, and take us back to the moments when his feelings first arose. For example Barry has a flashback to the moment when Moira ( his daughter) was three years old and “she had eaten a bottle of aspirin. He had scooped her up and [ran] with her four blocks to the hospital.” This event was significant and mentioned because clearly communicates to the reader how much Barry cares for Moira, it also explains why he is so protective over Moira even …show more content…

When Barry realized that he should be a little less hypersensitive when it comes to Moira the narrator explained that Barry is now, “ever watchful, full of fear, smoothly payed out the rope, determined to give her all the slack she needed while, at the same time, keeping his hands tensed, ready to lock shut, ready to absorb the shock of any fall.” The wires acted as the bond between Barry and Moira and exemplified the idea of how when Barry holds on tighter to the wires he doesn’t allow for Moira to go as high as she could with more slack. W.D Valgardson use of flashbacks, similes and metaphors helps to instill the idea that we can only protect the ones we love so much before we have to let them be themselves and reach new heights. As seen by Barry and Moira’s relationship their always comes a point where we must give our children some slack followed by some

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