Controversy: You Need To Stop Watching Those Birds

“James,” he says. We begin walking where there is a bundle of people and he looks concerned. “How about I send you to the sheriff’s station? They will surely help you out,” he says. “If it will help,” I say. The chirping of birds seems to follow me, it triggers a memory of home. When Mama and I would take short walks through the meadow behind our home. Whistling along with the bird's melody is what we did. Back then, I had no worries at all. Now, all I have is worries.

They saw a bird as caged, fragile, and beautiful, who like a woman needs to protect her nest, but the bird must be nurtured, because on her own she was incapable, and vulnerable. (The British Library, 2014).

In life, there are often many different ways to experience an event depending on a person’s background and field of study. Regarding these two passages, John Audubon, a scientist, and Annie Dillard, an artisan, describe a murmuration of starlings based on their experiences. The use of their craft in the description of this phenomenon is shown through their styles of writing. While both authors use descriptive language, Audubon utilizes an exact and scientific style while Dillard utilizes a reflective and poetic style.

One of the women made the comment that Mrs. Wright used to be pretty and happy, when she was Minnie Foster not Minnie Wright. This is just the beginning of realizing that she was just pushed to far into depression and couldn't live up to John Wright's expectations anymore. The Wrights had no children and Mrs. Wright was alone in the house all day long. The women perceive John Wright to be a controlling husband who in fact probably wouldn't have children and this may have upset Mrs. Wright. They eventually find vacant bird cage and ponder upon what happened to the bird, realizing Mrs. Wright was lonely they figured she loved the bird and it kept her company. The women make reference to the fact that Mrs. Wright was kind of like a bird herself, and that she changed so much since she married John Wright. They begin looking for stuff to bring her and they find the bird dead and they realize someone had wrung its neck. This is when they realize Mrs. Wright was in fact pushed to far, John Wright had wrung her bird's neck and in return Minnie Wright wrung his.

This man caused Louie to drink and to smoke, he became terrified to sleep due to the pain and the way he wanted so bad to get revenge. The Bird made Louie come extremely close to ruining his marriage and gave him an unsettling mindset from the thoughts of The Bird so intensely that he was scared he would injure someone in his sleep: “Louie was straddling Cynthia's chest, his hands locked around her neck. Through her closing throat, she was screaming. Louie was strangling his pregnant wife” (373). Louie was lucky, lucky he did not kill his wife, or hurt her, or kill his baby, he was lucky to have a wife as kind as Cynthia to stay by his side and not let him go. Luck once again was rushing through Louie’s life as Cynthia could’ve ended this marriage in a heartbeat, but instead took Louie to a preacher named Billy to retrieve him help so he would understand what wrong he is doing: “Cynthia stayed in the hall, listening to the neighbor. When she returned to the apartment, she told Louie that she wanted him to take her to hear Graham speak” (378). At the sound of God, Louie started to believe, he changed once more and went back to having a strong mind. A simple promise that Louie remembered to keep him strong and to keep him fighting to stay determined: “If you will save me, I will serve you forever” (382). Louie became a better man and from that moment

In contrast to Louie’s expectations of this new camp it was just like the others with little food, hard work, and constant violent beatings. These beatings continue until the Bird is

The birdcage symbolizes the Wright’s marriage. It is breaking and past the point of recovery. “ Looks as if someone must have been rough with it” (Glaspell 875). Minnie Wright represents the bird, who is trapped. She is trapped in this marriage where she is mistreated. Though, Mrs.Wright is not killed, but her spirit is. Due to the isolation and neglect, Mrs.Wright’s spirit is killed. David Galens summarizes this drama in his article “Trifles.” He mentions “Neither woman can recall whether she actually had a bird, but Mrs. Hale remembers that Minnie did have a beautiful singing voice when she was younger” (Galens). Mrs.Peters and Mrs.Hale find the dead bird with silk around the neck. Mrs. Peters is in shock: “Somebody—wrung—its—neck” (Glaspell 115). Mrs.Hale does not know the Wright’s well, so she says “ I s’pose maybe the cat got it” (Glaspell 875). Mrs.Peters knows the Wright’s did not have a cat; therefore, the cat is a metaphor to John Wright. This bird is valuable to Mrs.Wright, because it was her only company throughout the long days when her husband works. The loneliness without the bird called for revenge. Minnie is tired of the emotionally abusive man she married. Mrs.Wright wrings John’s neck and kills him for all the things he does to slowly kill

He expresses “Sadly, we all looked back at the bird. A scarlet ibis! How many miles it had traveled to die like this, in our yard, beneath the bleeding tree. Let’s finish lunch.” It states how the family was sad at first when the bird had died, but they didn’t really care about it.

Ever since the bird spoke into a microphone at a giant event he has been getting fans following him everywhere. Sometimes it gets annoying for the bird when fans are bugging him too much. Like the other day someone stole his favorite socks! But today that can't happen because he has to go to a special event that will boost his career. If fans bug him today his career will be ruined! Today is a special day for the bird. When the bird woke up, he put on his new tuxedo and shiny boots. He was so excited for the special event because he could possibly get an even better career. But he still loves his old job, but he just needs a little bit more money because it is hard for him to keep paying for the house he bought because his job pays minimum

“Well, for instance, when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said. `The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering

During times of disorder, it is natural to feel a sense of fear and loneliness that requires you to search for control in your life. These emotions send you to the point of having to isolate yourself, as you believe if you do so, you have control over your life. In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 psychodrama film “The Birds”, Melanie is a young woman who travels to Bodega Bay to reunite herself with a stranger by the name of Mitch. Melanie uncovers that he had a romantic relationship with Annie, the woman she claims to have come to town for. Annie advises Melanie that her relationship with him did not last due to Lydia, his mother, fearing that he will leave her now that her husband has passed away. As Melanie and Mitch’s relationship begins to develop, birds within the town being to attack them along with everyone else who lives in Bodega Bay. Melanie, Mitch, and the town’s people begin to question why the birds are attacking them. Annie’s body is discovered outside her house as a result from her being killed by birds. By the end of the film, Melanie and Lydia have a close relationship leave the bird infested town with Mitch and his sister Cathy. Alfred Hitchcock uses the these three women to remind us that chaos will always enter our lives no matter what actions we take to keep order, but deep relationships will help overcome the feelings of fear and loneliness.

They admired each other’s adventurous personalities. As time went on Louie’s changing personality disturbed Cynthia. He would often stay out late and come home wasted. Drinking became a way of numbing the memories of his past experiences. Louie became obsessed with the idea of personally torturing and killing The Bird.

At the bird’s appearance and apparent vocal articulation, he is at first impressed, then saddened. He compares this evening visitor as only another friend which will soon depart, just as “other friends have flown before” (58). But the raven again echoes quite aptly his one-word vocabulary, thus leading the man on to think more deeply about the possibilities that exist at this juncture. Somewhere deep inside him, he has realized that it doesn’t matter what question he poses, the bird will respond the same.

The character sketch of Mr. and Mrs. Wright in the novel “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell: Mr. Wright was a local farmer, he was known as a good man. Who never drink in his life, he used to keep his words and paid off his debts. He was married to Minnie Foster a lively girl 30 years before. Minnie foster was known to be a pretty girl, who had a great fondness with singing, used to dress in gleeful clothes and was a lively girl.

An idea that is expanded by Doris Lessing better demonstrates how “Flight” supports the characters in their courses of actions through their external and internal motivations. However, the means of reality and illusions within their ambitions that is in the short story is essential for the protagonist, the old man to progress as a character. Internal motivations that the short story supplies is impressions that include the old man capturing the “pretty, pretty, pretty” pigeons that were noted to be his favourite. In addition, the fact that Doris Lessing used extensive vocabulary and word choice to exhibit the “homing pigeons” resulted while using