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GOING PLACES SUMMARY “Going Places” follows teenaged  Sophie  as she uses her vivid imagination to try to escape her dreary home life. On the way home from school, Sophie tells her schoolmate  Jansie  of her future aspirations to own a  boutique  or be an actress, and Jansie responds that Sophie’s ambitions are unrealistic and that she needs to be practical. When Sophie arrives home, she announces that if she ever comes into money, she will buy a boutique, but her  father ,  mother , and little brother  Derek  all ridicule and dismiss this dream, suggesting that Sophie is constantly impractical about money and the future. Looking at her small house, in which her worn-down mother washes piles of dirty dishes and cooks for her “grimy” husband, Sophie feels a “tightening” in her throat and leaves the room to find her older brother  Geoff . She believes that Geoff might free her from the drudgery of her life, as she imagines that he...

The Interview Summary in English by Christopher Silvester  About the Author Author Name Christopher Silvester Born 1959, London Education Lancing College, Sussex, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read history Books The Pimlico Companion to Parliament: A Literary Anthology Books edited The Penguin Book of Interviews: An Anthology from 1859 to the Present Day Christopher Silvester (1959) was educated at Lancing College Sussex, and Peter House, Cambridge, where he read history. From 1983 to 1994, he worked for Private Eye, initially writing the ‘New Boys’ column. He has written for several newspapers and magazines. He is also the Editor of The Penguin Book of Interviews: An Anthology from 1859 to the Present Day and the author of The Pimlico Companion to Parliament. He currently writes obituaries for the Times (of London) and book reviews. He is writing a t...