Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Fly Away Home
After Amy Alden's mother dies, she is forced to move to Canada, where her estranged father, Thomas, lives. She hardly knows him, and, grieved by her mother's death and angry at how her life has turned upside down, she does not get along with him very well. Life takes on more meaning when she discovers a flock of orphaned goslings who do not have any parent to teach them how to fly and migrate. Anna takes on the responsibility and her father, who is an inventor, helps her with it.
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Analysis of Fly Away Home
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Father
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Coping with loss of loved one?
Yes
Coping with loss of
- Momma
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- a teen
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) long straight
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average build
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Canada
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- encouraged
