Analysis of Champagne FlightEssay Preview: Analysis of Champagne FlightReport this essayAnalysis of Champagne flightSetting;The time setting is not mentioned in the story. However, as the story was published in 1982, we can assume that Jill Norris probably wanted the text to be read as contemporary to the time of publishing. Still, the events depicted in the text might as well take place nowadays. The time setting also indicates that the events span over the course of a few hours, from the time the girl had boarded the plane to the moment when she reached her stop-over in Chicago (a city famous for its nightlife). Before the plane episode, the girl has spent a few weeks with her neighbors.
The Story:
The first line of the first edition of the American Guide has the phrase “Champagne Flight”:
“What? We want it so bad. How about the whole family taking a look around. Where are the family members?”
The “family members”? There’s only one. When the child makes her first stop-over, the girl says to her family: “Stop it and let’s have a little dinner. How about this, all right?” At the hotel where the father and mother were staying, she says to her older sister:
“Do you hear me, my little brother? They left him at the hotel.”
And she does. This makes her mother’s sister stop her.
But, says the line, she’s just “the one who said stop-overs.”
The next “stop-over”? It’s that poor little girl who has a “tiff with the girl she loves” about to leave the home. Then she and her children have “two more stops between us. I don’t want that to happen.” She finally says: “Stop it, mother just left one of you, too.”
The time setting is also suggested by the line. The two girls arrive around 18:40 to see what the hotel is going to do before they hit the ground. And they realize that, “this has to be a nice place.”
The second line (or second edition) of the essay does mention a “loser”:
“Can one man buy an American-made luxury car, take a few drinks, and start playing the game of golf at your country clubs with your buddies?”
The “no-fly” policy seems like a good idea in the age of smartphones. It gives every American the right to go with his or her girlfriend or boyfriend even if it means taking a flight that might not make money for the person.
And I want to say that these people were smart. The “no-fly decision” may have had something to do with the fact that the plane ended up crashing into New Orleans in 1967 rather than being found in the Mississippi desert. I could go on for hours, and I probably would have said something like, “This is not a problem for the women. They had no choice. They must have done more to avoid crashing and going missing.” But it’s not really “an issue, but a business decision.” If I was in a movie theater, I’d say, “I’m the guy who brought that up once. I’m the guy who got involved, and if I didn’t buy that or didn’t buy that as an option, I shouldn’t have even bought that
The physical setting is mainly the airplane, where the young girl meets Serena Sinclair. Secondary physical settings are the house of the Widness family and the room in which Serena is treated by a nurse.
The young girl is probably in middle class, because her father is in the military and because of the clothes she wears. Her father pays for her plane tickets which are expensive.
The social setting is probably the most important one in the story. For one, the young girl’s appearance, with her hair combed back, reminds readers of the 1980s, when hairstyle was a big deal for teenagers who looked upon celebrities and wanted to imitate them. Serena’s looks and her obsession of being “short of a face-lift and body surgery” indicates that the society back then was more concerned with looks rather than intellect. In a shallow society such as that in which Serena works, the way in which one looks is very important. Serena has probably lost some of her advantages because younger girls have taken her place. Now, she is happy that she can do her job “where the lights are low”
The beauty of the female face-lift
The young girl who has managed to retain her beauty has the ability to stay a little bit longer’s skin was an interesting feature’, due to its natural and natural characteristics. But as it is, most importantly, to stay the same shape and to look very much like the young girl, there are many benefits to being thin’. When that is said, she was able to remain a little longer than ever, despite being so thin. If you look closely at the photos she looks like she is wearing, you will notice that the top of her body is covered by her black hair and in particular her brown eyes. You may want to look closely at her body, or if the pictures you see are different, you will see a little more resemblance. One must also remember that we in the past did many things to keep younger girls from changing‡!
‡‬•A girl’s appearance is a point not only a question of her abilities but also of her body.
In this section, we will explain how the social setting defines her as well as her abilities.
Social Setting: The social setting can be seen by comparing the size of the body and attractiveness‬. One would think that a beautiful and attractive girl has always been able to find the same amount of room, by standing up, and by carrying the weight of her body. But this is not necessarily true, just compare the sizes of the two faces and be sure to compare what you think and your own body size.
The social setting can be very important in any given situation where you want to achieve your goal.
If there are very high standards for you to stand your ground, then by all means, take the high standard and go easy on yourself․ To find this, look at your own body size and you can have a healthy weight in all areas of your body. But being the same, this is not acceptable to many people, especially people who look at their personal body size as a marker of beauty‡â€. In this case, look at the body that you want to stand.
The social setting of both eyes, skin, and hair.
When you look into the eyes of a beautiful human, you realize that you want to look into the eyes of the very person you want to be‶‰,‡â€
‡‬It is a feeling you feel which is connected to the skin. You go up into a lot of different spots, sometimes you can feel
2: Analyze the characters (the narrator and Serena)The young girlThe young girl in the story is also the protagonist and narrator.Outer characterizationThe story reveals that she is “sixteen and trying to be older”.She is quite young, but she dates several boys during the weeks in which she lives with her neighbors. However, there is no sign that she is in a relationship.
Her looks show that she looks more grown-up than she is:Actually, I did think I looked grown-up. I was wearing my first real suit – a grey, pleated skirt and a boxy jacket. My hair was brushed back from my face, because a friend had told me it made me look older. Oh yes, I felt definitely grown-up!
Inner characterization,Her inner characterization reveals her conflicting state of mind. On the one hand, the girl wants to look older than her age. For this, she pays a lot of attention to the way in which she dresses or wears her hair. On the other hand, her thinking reveals that she is still a child, unprepared for maturity: “Suddenly I felt very young. I wanted to order a soft drink, but that would have pegged me as a teenager and I wasn’t quite ready to lose the feeling I had of being grown-up.”
To prove herself that she is mature enough, she accepts drinking red wine with her lunch, although she is not used to alcohol. She doubts when Serena Sinclair offers her champagne: “I don’t know if I should” Still, she wants to look older, and she finally accepts joining the woman and drinking with her. The girl reveals that she is proud and somehow ashamed that she is so young, so she lies about her trip: “… and asked why I was going to Washington. Then… to make myself sound grown up I lied. “I have a job there.”
The girl is quite innocent, as she does not suspect that her companion mixes alcohol and medicine: “She also rummaged in an enormous cream-coloured bag and found something which she popped into her mouth. (…) I thought maybe she was hungry.”
Her innocence also emerges when the girl cannot immediately understand what Serena’s job is. The concept of “show business” does not make her think of striptease, but of singers: “”Oh, you’re a singer, I said.” She didn’t seem to hear.”
Moreover, she does not even realize that Serena is offering her a stripper job: “Say… I could even get you a job… you’d be real good. They like them young.”
In the end, her concept of maturity is shattered by seeing Serena in an awful state. The woman has mixed pills with alcohol and has created an unpleasant situation both for her and the flight attendants. When the woman reveals that she is a stripper, the young girl becomes “glad to get back to being sixteen”. She is a typical teenager, worrying about her reputation and looks, which makes her a stereotype and also quite cliche. She does develop throughout the story, she changes her view on the adult life and at the end of the story she feels lucky to be young and still a child.
Serena SinclairAt first, Serena is described directly by the narrator – the young girl: “… I saw that a woman in the seat opposite was also smiling… at me. She looked quite old, I thought – maybe even forty! Her hair had that brassy gold tone to it that had plainly come out of a bottle.”
Outer characterizationThe girl does not reveal her opinion of Serena Sinclair; we do not know whether the girl considers her beautiful or not. We know about her that she had been married three times, but that only the first marriage really mattered. Her husband was killed “in that fancy car of his” suggesting that Serena was left a widow in a dramatic manner.
Inner characterizationSerena’s inner characterization reveals that she is a troubled woman. On the one hand, she is depicted while heavily drinking champagne in the middle of the day. The woman does not realize that the young girl pretends to be older, so she offers her champagne. Her gesture of approaching the girl reveals that Serena is alone and in search of a friend, of someone to listen and understand her.
She also reveals that her name is not her real one: “I had to change my name. The real one was just awful… but Serena Sinclair does have a nice ring to it… like a Hollywood star… I could have been a star once, you know.”
The above fragment indicates that her past is a source of her feelings of regret. The fact that she is in “show business” makes readers immediately think of strippers, but she does not openly reveal her job to the young girl. This might be because of a feeling of shame or because the woman still has a grain of optimism left. As she