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“”Bird” is a realistic fiction novel written by angela johnson. It's more like you're reading a poem rather than an actual book. Thirteen year old Bird decides to leave home and go search for her second father who left without saying goodbye. Bird lives in a shed that belongs to another family, she scavenges off the family that lives there. Each character in the book has their own sort of “heart problem” while Birds being that she lost her stepfather and she wants to have normal family. One of the characters, Ethan actually has a heart problem. He had a heart transplant. Jay is heart broken from his mom's passing. Jay becomes scared that ethan will start to act like their brother because he has his heart. Derek was their other brother, he
liked storms and always had one foot under the blanket while he slept. One night ethan was watching Bird and he began to think about his mothe. “i try not to think about mom and the good stuff” This novel is about the good stuff, in an odd way the novel Bird is quiet with a heart. It really presents the little things and how strong people can truly mean. Also to show those who push away people that things in the world are different than they think.
“Shells” by Cynthia Rylant is a realistic story about a 14-year-old boy whose parents died. He was forced to live with his Aunt Esther. They bought a hermit crab, which is bringing them closer to each other. In the beginning of the story, Michael needs to get used to his new home and living without his parents. Just with his Aunt Esther, who only took him because she was loyal to her family. Soon Michael got a hermit crab, which it helps him relieve some stress. Finally, Aunt Esther and Michael were bonding with each other and Michael came out of his shell just like Sluggo (the crab). Michael and Aunt Esther change, through the story.
The patient is Holden Caulfield, a sixteen-year-old teenage boy. Caulfield's appearance is tall for his age and surprisingly has quite a few gray hairs at the age of sixteen. Holden comes from an upper-middle class family. His family has enough money to support Holden with many luxuries including skates and expensive suitcases. It appears that Mr. and Mrs. Caulfield aren?t there to talk, care, and be there for Holden, which seems to drive Holden away from his family. However, he has an intimate bond with his younger siblings, who embody innocence and youth. The death of his brother Allie has left a large scar on Holden. He has a cherished and intimate relationship with his young and innocent sister, Phoebe. Holden has been to many schools and has been kicked out of many schools. Holden is an intellectual teenager, who refuses to apply himself, and thus goes from school to school.
The tile of the poem “Bird” is simple and leads the reader smoothly into the body of the poem, which is contained in a single stanza of twenty lines. Laux immediately begins to describe a red-breasted bird trying to break into her home. She writes, “She tests a low branch, violet blossoms/swaying beside her” and it is interesting to note that Laux refers to the bird as being female (Laux 212). This is the first clue that the bird is a symbol for someone, or a group of people (women). The use of a bird in poetry often signifies freedom, and Laux’s use of the female bird implies female freedom and independence. She follows with an interesting image of the bird’s “beak and breast/held back, claws raking at the pan” and this conjures a mental picture of a bird who is flying not head first into a window, but almost holding herself back even as she flies forward (Laux 212). This makes the bird seem stubborn, and follows with the theme of the independent female.
Birds are a class of vertebrates that live in nature. Most of them are characterized by an ability to fly, free to roam the sky. They are not meant to live in captivity. Therefore, the short story entitled "A Bird in the House" suggests a theme of entrapment and a struggle for freedom, a topic that resonates throughout the novel. Vanessa is one character who experiences a sense of confinement in the story. Her family lives with her grandmother MacLeod, a tyrannical woman who loves order, and who wants to continue living like she did in the past, before the Depression, with a housekeeper to cook and clean, and to be able to make frequent purchases of table-cloths and handkerchiefs of Irish linen. Vanessa's father, Ewen, explains that, "the house is still the same, so she thinks other things should be too" (55). Vanessa experiences a physical confinement in the MacLeod house, being forbidden to enter those rooms that contained valuables objects such as her grandmother's bedroom and the living room which she calls, "another alien territory where I had to tread warily" (47). This physical confinement led to an emotional detachment. As an adult reflecting on her time growing up, Vanessa says that "the MacLeod house never seemed like home to me" (46). Moreover, Vanessa experienced some emotional confinement in the Connor house as her grandfather Connor was a domineering man who did not approve of many types of people so Vanessa grew up without the interaction with many people outside her immediate family. To combat these forms of entrapment, Vanessa would write stories about pioneers, and love and death, as an escape.
This book is about a boy named Brian Roberson who gets stuck in the wilderness when his plane crash-lands because the pilot has a heart attack. It all started when Brian's parents had a divorce. He was sent away on a plane by his mother because it was summertime when his dad had custody. The parting gift his mother gave him was a hatchet. He wore the hatchet on a belt. When he left on the private little Cessna 406 plane in the copilot's seat he never could imagine how this little trip would change his life. In the airplane he thought a lot about his parents and the secret he kept. The secret was that he knew that his mom was having an affair with another man when she was still married to his father. Brian was thinking this until the pilot interrupted his thoughts and asked him if he has ever been in a copilot's seat before. He answered by saying that he has never been on an airplane. The pilot showed Brian how to fly the airplane by letting him fly for a !
Morrison interprets the bird to be language and the woman to be a practiced writer. Morrison states that "[The woman] is worried about how the language she dreams in, given to her at birth, is handled, put into service, even withheld from her for certain nefarious purposes. ...She believes that if the bird in the hands of her visitors is dead, the custodians are responsible for the corpse" (Morrison 1993). The woman is aware that language, her very way of communicating with the world, her sole instrument of expression in modern society, is dying. As language continues to die, the woman and her medium for expression become increasingly confined, with death as the final outcome. She is shackled and detained by her inability to halt the holocaust, the complete and utter desecration of the language she loves so much.
Through the cladogram I filled out, I can tell that T-Rex’s were most related to Caimans and Parrot’s. I think that the t-rex’s were closer in relation to the parrot, so they should have feathers. Parrots and T-rexs share many feature with one another, one is that the t-rex was bipedal (walked on two legs), and the caiman was not. Another reason why I think t-rex had feathers is the fact that t-rexs had 3 digits like birds, and they also both don’t have a heel bone found in caimans. If a t-rex really did have scales, then why does the t-rex walk like a bird? Not only do t-rexs and parrots have a common ancestor, but no one has been able to prove that t-rexs didn’t have feathers. Even better, archeologists have found fossils with clear indications
A nest lies empty on top a forked branch of an old oak tree. Last spring children play, young lovers whisper into each others ear, and the elderly relax under that tree. When they do, they can hear the quiet chirps of little hungry baby blue-jays. The little blue-jays chirp until the mother blue-jay returns with food . Afterwards, one attempts to fly and fall out of the nest. The mother blue-jay then quickly swoops down and catches the little one before he hits the ground. The baby jay can always depend on his mother when he needs her, but she knows that one day he will no longer rely on her. On that day, instead of plummeting to his death, the young blue-jay will spread his wings and fly away. He will fly straight into the setting sun never looking back. Slowly all of the young will fly away and leave the mother alone in the nest. However, mothers do not always handle this situation calmly. In "The Possessive," Sharon Olds conjures intense images of betrayal and utilizes war as a metaphor to express a mother's emotion as her daughter leaves the nest. The poem reflects the separation anxiety the mother undergoes as she witnesses her daughter mature and distance herself.
This black female is shown clutching a bird which is wrapped in a torn beige cloth. Williamson describes the bird as “a compositional element with a good shape and color.” It looked extremely young and vulnerable. The young girl is shown laying on her stomach on ice, attempting to save her books with one hand while holding the bird in another. There is a circular hole in the ice which she attempted to punch in order to save her books from drowning. Personally,
The birdcage represents how Mrs. Wright was trapped in her marriage, and could not escape it. The birdcage door is broken which represents her broken marriage to Mr. Wright. It also represents Mrs. Wright escaping her marriage from Mr. Wright. When the door is open it allows Mrs. Wright to became a free woman. At one point in time the cage door use to have a lock that locked the bird inside the cage. This represents how Mr. Wright kept Mrs. Wright locked up from society. Mr. Wright knew that by keeping Mrs. Wright locked up, she would never be able to tell anyone how he really acted. Mr. Wright was very cruel to his wife.
Birds are kept in confinement of there cages, they do not have the will to do anything and longs to fly out into the world. This perfectly describes Gretel’s state of mind, she longs to be let out and never fly back to her worries and her reality. She is the bird that sits there in seldom, through the bars of emotion. She believes she is useless. A caged bird sings with a fearful trill to let the world know of its existence and there longing to escape. The trill Gretel sang was rebellion, she wished her rebellion could stir up a chance of her escape. But a caged bird will stay still with there wings clipped.
Chick only genuinely understands the adversities his mother sustained throughout his life after her death. Throughout Chick’s life, he chose his father because of his strict demands for the loyalty of his son. He continuously treated his mother with disrespect. There are two categories that Chick reflects on throughout the book: Times My Mother Stood Up For Me, and Times I Did Not Stand Up For My Mother. Some of the situations described in this story were humorous, but also very relatable. We don’t often think of the ways we could have respected and stood up for our parents. We also don’t often give our parents recognition for all they have struggled through for us. Sometimes, we don’t even recognize our parents as normal people overall. Parents try their hardest to keep their children away from the harsh realities of life, which is what Chick’s mother was aiming for his whole life. But the real harsh reality is that Chick never treated his mother with the respect she deserved. After her death, he struggled with alcohol, depression, and much more sad things. This story inspires readers to respect their parents more, because giving them respect is the least someone can do for all their parent’s have sacrificed for
As I entered the classroom, I quickly walked over to my desk, quietly sat down, and instantly resumed my observation of the bird’s nest outside. It was a beautiful day and I could hear the bird’s chirping. I had been observing this fellow since he was a chick and knew that one day he would not be in his mother’s nest for me to observe. I came at the perfect time because I could see the mother standing in the nest beside what used to be her hatchling. They are beautiful creatures built to be carried by hot thermals high into the sky. Man can only dream of accomplishing the feats a bird can naturally do. A man might be closer to accomplishing these feats if he were to have the courage of a bird. Imagine standing at the edge and looking down towards the ground at one’s demise. Then being able to look towards the skies and know that this leap of faith will be the beginnings of a new life. As I pondered this thought, I saw the bird suddenly spread his wings and fall to the earth. Just as I thought he was about to hit the ground, he spread his wings and began the new day by soaring into the realm of the skies.
As the wind blew and rustled the large trees it sent shivers though the Forrest, as the damp spring weather started to settle in. The frail twigs and branches of the nests blew aimlessly as the mother birds struggled to keep their young ones warm. Even though the lack of sun, it didn't cease to change the joy that filled the Forrest. A common occurrence every spring that changes every family when a nest full of chicks hatch. As all the other families bring chicks into the world it seems like there are many obstacles you have to over come, But my mom she does it alone.
Even though the two are still married since the husband lives, but only as a bird, she believes that her husband is gone, and cannot see that the parrot is her late husband. With this constant irony, it forms a strange relationship between the two, where the husband recognizes that she is his wife, but she does not know that he is her husband. In his life as a human, the protagonist was constantly jealous of whomever of the male species that his wife had a friendship with. One particular incident was with a man that worked at the same job as his wife as a shipping man. The husband, although only hearing about this man three times brought up in casual conversation, locked himself in his closet because he did not want to say something to his wife that would make her realize his jealousy. After calming down, he went to the shipping man's house and stalked him, to the point that he climbed a tree just to get a better look at him. This was to no avail, as he fell from the tree and died. Because of his selfish tendencies, it is easy to see that the husband is jealous of his wife and believes that she is cheating on him with the said man from shipping, although this suspicion is not