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Try to explain how the old man comes to accept the inevitability of Alice's marrying.

In the second half of the 20th century, Doris Lessing was well-known as a fiction writer with her “scepticism, fire and visionary power” (described by the Swedish Academic). In 1957, she published a short stories collection entitled “The Habit of Loving”, including “Flight” - the short story about an old man’s grief and acceptance toward his granddaughter’s maturity. As many grandparents do, he behaves as it is hard to accept his grandchild’s marriage at first; nevertheless, growing up is an inevitable story in one’s life, he finally releases her, letting her fly away with her own independent life later.

At first, the old man does not expect his grandchild’s maturity and marriage at all. His confrontational stance expressed through his speech toward Alice: “Think you want to leave home, hey? Think you can go running around the fields at night?” or “I'll tell your mother!”. The speech is a bit bitter, showing his anger and disappointment. It seems that he hates how Alice enjoys her date when running out of the garden with the postmaster’s son. However, as readers, people know that this childish jealousy is caused by his endless love toward Alice, and the way he stands alone looking after Alice “But I never meant...' he muttered, waiting for her to turn and run to him. 'I didn't mean…” The old man also opposes Alice’s marriage while talking with Alice’s mother, Lucy: “Why do you make your girls marry? It's you who do it. What do you do it for? Why?”. As Alice’s sisters, she has to leave home and get married, even Lucy - the old man’s daughter does. By saying that, the author wants to express that growing up and settling into a domestic routine is an inevitable part of our lives. As Lucy emphasizes “She's eighteen. Eighteen!”, the age that Alice can decide to do whatever she wants.

Knowing that Alice will get married next month, the old man shows his sadness, lonely taking his steps to the veranda with “his eyes stung”, “wet spread down over his chin and he took out a handkerchief and mopped his whole face. The garden was empty.” He no longer shouts to Alice or gets mad with Lucy, he sits alone and busy thinking about his life being left “uncherished”. When Alice and Steven give him a new pigeon and wordlessly encourage him that nothing would be changed through their “lying happy eyes”. At that time, the old man can feel that he has received some compensation for the loss of his grandfather, that he releases his favorite pigeon. In the late afternoon, they all look up to the sky and watch these birds spread their wings, until the space is silent and the sky is empty. When he accepts to open the cage for his favorite homing pigeon to fly, he knows that he has to set Alice free. After all, his grandchild's maturity is inevitable, it is the rule and people have to follow.

To sum up, “Flight” by Doris Lessing is a story about family, where people are always seen as little kids, but they have to end up growing up and will be on their own. Despite the fact that maturity is a fierce challenge for all young people, and hard to accept for the old ones, they have to face it sooner or later. This piece of story is not just Alice’s, everyone can relate and empathize with their beloved parents, grandparents more and more.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, nevertheless, second, so, well, while, after all, as to, to sum up

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 10.4138276553 240% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 17.0 7.30460921844 233% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 81.0 24.0651302605 337% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 41.998997996 162% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2766.0 1615.20841683 171% => OK
No of words: 579.0 315.596192385 183% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.77720207254 5.12529762239 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90534594407 4.20363070211 117% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67734458906 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 324.0 176.041082164 184% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559585492228 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 809.1 506.74238477 160% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.60771543086 87% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 5.43587174349 313% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 8.0 2.10420841683 380% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 16.0721442886 168% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.7878196402 49.4020404114 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.444444444 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4444444444 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.14814814815 7.06120827912 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.01903807615 159% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 3.4128256513 264% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.17337220704 0.244688304435 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0464018728736 0.084324248473 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0516784422262 0.0667982634062 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103792422273 0.151304729494 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0389403850811 0.056905535591 68% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.0946893788 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 50.2224549098 134% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.44 12.4159519038 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.6 8.58950901804 88% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 78.4519038076 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 9.78957915832 194% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.33 Out of 6
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, nevertheless, second, so, well, while, after all, as to, to sum up

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments