Chapter 15: Flights of Fancy
Thomas C. Foster emphasizes the realism of flight and how humans can't achieve it, however he includes examples of stories that do include flight, like the Greek mythology story of Daedalus and Icarus. Foster shares how flight is a wonder, and depending on Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, the use of flight in the novel represents freedom and the longing for it while in captivity. Flight can represent many things in literature and works, but Foster mostly mentions how it represents freedom. Another example of flight representing freedom is in Peter Pan, as Peter Pan and the children are flying through the sky, it is a representation for them being free from any restrictions they may have at home and living in that moment right there.
