Sky High Essay

Through the process of time, an individual’s personal developments and experiences can alter future perspectives and attitudes, resulting in a discovery. Robert’s ‘Sky High’ effectively conveys how growth affect an individual’s behaviour, character and attitude towards their environment. Growth is portrayed as the tool, which shapes our personalities, from naive children to the very complex emotional beings. As Robert introduces the memories of the child’s carefree atmosphere envelopes the prose, “feeling...nearly as pink as my bathers.” The utilisation of prose and a simile demonstrates how the child is pleased with herself as she feels her frilly bathers, hence feels as pink as them as it reminds us of the simple satisfactions of childhood. …show more content…
However, overtime, Robert journeys from a youthful sense of innocent to the sense of knowledge and wisdom that comes with age. “... beginning to accumulate the linepetched story of her life in scars and wrinkles.”, the persona loses the childhood excitement, now her hands “easily touching the sagging wire”. The stultifying effect of imagery and personification of the sagging wires, gives a contrastingly nostalgic and sorrowful mood. Hence, implying that she is no longer curious and lively as she use to be, but now has a much more negative perspective of her world and the future. With the aging of the persona overtime, readers understand how her attitude and behaviour have changed, “It is unlikely the washing lines could support me this time.” Through a nostalgic tone she realises that this would be irresponsible and that the washing line could no longer support her. Thus, feels that “There are too many things tying me to the ground.” empathises the feeling of responsibility that hangs on her shoulders, and that this responsibility is the reason she cannot be