Birdy Chapter Summary

In chapter five of "To Kill A Mocking Bird", the children vision Boo Radley as a frightening character. Miss Maudie claims that Boo Radley's biological name is Arthur, and he was claimed to be a "foot washing Baptist" and doesn't leave his house. "His name's Arthur and he's still alive"(Lee 43). "You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing Baptist"(Lee 44). "Foot-washers believe that anything that's pleasure is a sin"(Lee 44). The evidence proves how "Boo" Radley or "Arthur" Radley was a foot-washer and never left his house. Atticus also views "Boo Radley" a little differently. Atticus just informs the children to stop bugging Boo and to let him live his life the way he wants to. "I'm going to tell you something and only one time: stop tormenting that man"(Lee 49). "What Mr. Radley did was his own business. If he wanted to come out, he would. If he wanted to stay inside his own house he had the right to stay inside from the attentions of inquisitive children,..."(Lee 49). Evidence explains exactly how Atticus wants the children to leave him alone and

The effect of the dashes in “by long-continued succession of notes and phrases, by swoops, bleats, echoes, rapidly repeated bebops-I mean rebopped bebops-...” represent the short pauses that someone would hear in Birds musc.

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt. This is what Catherine, the main character of Catherine Called Birdy, written by Karen Cushman, learns as she goes through one year; 1290 CE-1291 CE full of exciting events in her village in Middle Ages England. Catherine, assumed to be thirteen, is facing a huge challenge, her father wants her to get married for the hope of increasing his profit. Catherine wants none of this business, however, and uses her own cleverness to stop suitors from getting an interest in her. But when she encounters a stubborn, old, greedy suitor she calls Shaggy Beard she tries but can do nothing

As Thomas Foster tells us, every quest has five different items. They consist of a quester, a place to go, a stated reason for going, challenges and trials on the way, and a real reason to go there. In the book The Hummingbird’s Daughter, by Luis Alberto Urrea, we find all these elements. The first, the quester, is our main character, Teresita Urrea. Her “place to go” is not a physical place, we learn, but rather her purpose in life. Teresita’s purpose is to bring peace: Teresita becomes a saint, and helps to bring peace between the Spanish people and the Natives who both inhabit Mexico. Her reason for bringing this peace is simply her desire to help others- and when she becomes a saint,

Writing, as described by E.L. Doctorow, is an exploration. In her novel, Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott explores the writing process, providing her insight on stylistic, theoretical, and instructional points. These points are essential in the composure of a book and are prevalent in many literary works such as Tim O’Brien’s The Things they Carried. In his book, O’Brien relives his time on the frontlines of the Vietnam War, telling fictional stories of life before, during, and post war. The novels are tied together with O’Brien’s use of character development, dialogue, and design setting strategies as discussed in Bird by Bird.

The book setting takes place in Mexico City in 1583 at a convent. Father Benito Lara was a Franciscan monk around 27 years old with a medium build, lean, clear tone, chestnut color hair thin to baldness identifying himself as the new confessor at the convent. The father was approached a private corner where an older woman Huitzitzilin 82 years old also known as Hummingbird frail with yellowish tone skin, small face, skeletal, dark marks, stringy white hair waiting to stated her last confession. Openly of her conversation with the father, Huitzitzilin describes her people splintered by the Spaniards, cast out, rooted out and beaten. The people had suffered from hunger and pestilence and felt like foreigners in their own rural area, these were powerful words coming from Huitzitziln. Zintle was the cousin of Huitzitziln and her first love during the Spanish Conquest of Mexico also the father to her unborn child. Huitzitzilin was different from others that was instructed about the aborigines of Mexico because the way she spoke about cultural repression of European religious, the struggle between gender oppression and duties of being a woman. Women are considered of less importance even in our world today, where we are supposed to have equality.

The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner explores evolution through the most famous examples in history—the finches of the Galápagos Islands. Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection and the process of evolution are applied directly to what scientists refer to as Darwin’s Finches. Weiner follows scientists Peter and Rosemary Grant as they study the finches in real time on the Galápagos. Years of previous work, study and data is collected and analyzed. Different species of animals are observed and explained throughout history. The Grants have one goal, and that is to find the origin of the species, how organisms first began. They find that it really is about the “survival of the

Can powerful people influence others in positive ways? Not for Catherine from Catherine called Birdy. Because she is a woman she has no choice in what to do with her life.

Anne Lamott writes, “Perfectionism is one way our muscles cramp. In some cases we don't even know that the wounds and cramping are there, but both limit us.” Through this text excerpt, Lamott speaks to the audience in a way of giving advice. She used a voice of stylistically in a means of making friends with the audience. The style she used to connect both her and I worked because of how personal should become. The author concludes, “In any case, the bottom line is that if you want to write, you get to, but you probably won't be able to get very far if you don't start trying to get over your perfectionism.”

“Hansel was ten and his sister, Gretel, was eleven when their stepmother decided to get rid of them. They didn’t catch on at first, because Hagmom (their secret name for her) had always hated them. So leaving them behind at the supermarket or forgetting to pick them up after school was no big deal.

Catherine has to use a lot of courage and determination in her life which even makes the toughest parts of our life look easy. In the novel, Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman shows how Catherine, a fourteen year old girl is forced to do things that she doesn't wish to do. Catherine is forced to marry Shaggy Beard, do lady tasks, and go through or not she should have to buy the bear and marry Shaggy Beard or have the bear go through pain. Catherine has a lot of hard decisions to make, but she always uses courage and determination to help her.

The structure of the story jumped around through birdies lide. It started in the middle of her life and flashed back to the beginning. Once the story moved passed the early stages of her life, it moved on towards the later years of her life. This structure, along with the second person point of view, created a very unique and original feel to the story.

Birdy understands why his Uncle Richie did not talk to people about his time in Vietnam and that Birdy had gained a different form of respect for his uncle is that Birdy understands the reality of war and how it impacts a person on the last page of Birdy's letter he said "Now I understand how light the words seem" this means that the words about the war leaves emotional scares and mark on a person in Birdy's experiences in war when Pendelton was killed he could not get the vision out of his head and when he went to the vehicle the thing he smelled that he remembers was blood of that event and I don't think Birdy wants to remember that event again .And Birdy has images of body bags and Jonesy death in his head and other experience. Birdy had

In the very first letter on page 1 where Birdy is talking a bought how he thinks the Iraqis will back down and drop there weapons and how they were going to win. Now on page 281 Birdy explains that if there is any wining in war it is that he knows that what he is fighting for is worth it. He talks a bought ho he was mad at his uncle Richie before not telling him story's.Now he understands why he didn't and Birdy said if he does have kids he would not want to tell them his story's

At the end of Chapter 24, Scout is sitting with Aunt Alexandra’s missionary circle and Calpurnia is cooking/baking for them. During the session, Scout, Calpurnia, Miss Maudie, and Aunt Alexandra receive the news about the death of Tom Robinson. The details of his death were that it was during their exercising period. Then they said he started running and climbing the fence and was trying to escape, but he was shot 17 times by a guard.