Flight Behaviour Research Paper

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Climate changes in the novel.
The novel deals with a major issue, the ignorance of climate change and lack of eco-centric vision. By locating the narrative within a small close-knit community, Kingslover is more able to show the disruptive effects of an ecological event. Climate change skepticism underpins the majority of this community. King solver catalyzes the major conflict of the novel, that is, the lack of eco-centric vision among humans. Everyone in Flight Behavior from religious fundamentalists to the rating conscious media frames the phenomenon, arrival of the Monarch butterflies, to suit their own interests. The residence of the Feather Town considers the arrival of the Monarch butterflies as a rebirth of Lord, or a symbol of resurrection. …show more content…

Flight Behaviour celebrates the beauty of the Monarch species (Danaus plexippus) and expresses admiration for the extraordinary intricacy and sophistication of the instincts which enable it to migrate annually over thousands of miles between Mexico and Canada. The individual butterflies die on average after 6 weeks, but they pass on their genes to descendants, who complete the journey northwards. Others again fly back south and congregate at their winter gathering place in Mexican Angangueo (146). In the first instance, the bright orange butterflies, which are reproduced (albeit in abstract form, as small golden leaf shapes swarming above bare treetops) on the book’s dustcover, symbolise the fragile, transient beauty of nature and the risk from global warming. However, their association in folk belief with the souls of dead children is also referred to at several points (359). The threat to their survival thus serves as a poignant reminder of the fate of future human generations facing the consequences of climate change. In the final pages of Flight Behaviour, the belated arrival of spring triggers a snowmelt which engulfs Dellarobia’s home, in a scene reminiscent of the Biblical flood, suggesting divine punishment. However, the onset of the exodus of the surviving butterflies merges flood and flame in a reprise of the opening scene of the book, suggesting that violent change may also bring rebirth

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