Summary Of If These Wings Could Fly

Kyrie McCauley wrote If These Wings Could Fly, a fiction book. The book is about a girl named Leighton and her family and the things they go through. Leighton starts her senior year and plans on getting into college, but dreams of going to NYC to be a journalist. Leighton cares so much for her siblings and mom because she wants to protect them from their father's abusive behavior. She doesn't want to see them get hurt by an outburst he has, because of this Leighton is afraid to leave her three family members she has behind to a father who becomes violent when he chooses to be or wants to. Then an opportunity came for Leighton to get into college, which was to write a summary about ‘Auburn Born, Auburn Proud’ and what it means to you. If you write it
Leighton is a domestic violence survivor trying to find her way out of a horrible situation.

The author uses domestic violence as a motif in If These Wings Could Fly. The concept of domestic violence creates an urgency for finding a way out of this situation. “Stop it!” I yell at him from the living room and he whirls. He reaches down and grabs mom’s arm, hauling her to her feet. “Leave her alone,” I said, running into the room and pulling his hand where it squeezed her arm so tight. (Chapter 8 page 43) All throughout the book, Leighton's dad is having violent outbursts towards her and her family. Her dad turned the power off to their house to punish them, pointed guns at them and shot them in the house, and was always screaming and cursing at them. I shoved against the kitchen countertop. The force of the impact knocks the wind out of me. When I turn around, he towers over me. Eyes bloodshot. How can he hate me this much?” (Chapter 44, p252) Leighton has to find her way out of this horrible situation. She knows she has to get out, but doesn’t want to leave her family behind to deal with her father’s violence. Going away to college is going to be Leightons only way out and finally she gets accepted! The