SuitabookRiding Icarus
Lily Hyde
- Reading
- Read together if the family separation or Igor’s control feels close to home. Pause at Masha’s dilemma and invite the reader to share what they think matters most to her.
- Themes
- Separation from her mother: Masha remains in Kyiv while her mother is abroad working, and hopes to bring her home. The separation is part of the story’s dilemma; the brief account does not establish whether it is presented as harmful, necessary or resolved.
- Uncle Igor’s control: The overview says Masha hopes to escape Uncle Igor’s control with her mother. Control is presented as an obstacle in the premise, but its nature and the story’s judgement of it are not established.
- Worth knowing
- The premise includes a parent going abroad to work and Masha wanting her mother back; it also signals conflict with Uncle Igor. How these situations are portrayed is not clear.