Catherine Called Birdy By Karen Cushman Sparknotes

Catherine is like a bird stuck in it's cage. If you hold the bird in it's cage it will want to fly out of it even if you were to put food inside. However the Bird that was not kept in its cage then it will walk right inside and eat the food. In the book, Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman, Catherine is the main character and is forced to do and deal with many things. Throughout the novel she is to deal with every situation to the best of her abilities and she makes the right choices, except when she doesn't. Three situations or problems she faces with courage and Determination are, she is forced to marry Shaggy Beard, Deal with the wrath of her Father, and try to avoid her lady lessons.

Catherine is doomed to marry Shaggy Beard because her Father is forcing her to do so. Here she states her dislike with

This is a good example so you understand, "Perkin Tells everyone in the Village 'not the Black one and certainly not the grey one.' and William the Steward of course tells my father and come to rent day my father insists on the black one or the gray one" (7). Her father is a real mean person if he hears one thing and does it just to make the person mad or sad. Luckily though, in this case Perkin does this just to outsmart Catharines horrible Father by having him take the 2 worst goats.Catherine is treated unfairly by her father, just read this for an example, "Dowry! He wants a Dowry of me? Pay the pig to wed my jewel, my tears are my only daughter" (7). Her Father is also a despicable person by selling away his daughter to a awful man just because he has money and will pay a lot for her. It is one thing if at least he is a decent man and a good person that you could learn to love, but this guy is not suitable. Catherine shows a great deal of courage to go and stand up for herself to her Father all the time even if it ends in her being slapped and sent to her