Descriptive Essay On Gannet

Among other animal imagery, birds appear frequently throughout the story in times of crisis. The birds often foreshadow dangers that lie ahead. For instance, when Robert's team takes a wrong turn, "the fog is full of noises"(80) of birds. Then the birds fly out of the ditch and disappear. Robert and Poole know that "[there] must be something terribly wrong...but neither one knew how to put it into words. The birds, being gone, had taken some mysterious presence with them. There was an awful sense of void--as if the world had been emptied" (81). The birds return and when Robert nears the collapsing dike and "one of the birds [flies] up cut[s] across Robert's path" as if it is trying to prevent him from going any further. Robert does not heed the warning and almost dies in the sinking mud.

After a while the bird’s master became thirsty and they left the animals at peace for a moment and searched for a stream. Once he spotting a gurgling brook, full of the clearest, purest crystal water he ever saw, it seemed

Audubon speaks about the phenomenon in seemingly awestruck way, noting their power and magnitude while noting the birds’ formation as a natural wonder. A striking characteristic of his description is his

Kelly, Joseph. The Seagull Reader - Stories. 2nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008. 354-72. Print.

The snake slides away; the fish jumps, like a little lily, out of the water and back in; the goldfinches sing from the unreachable top of the tree.

Society has always pressured individuals to meet its unrealistically high expectations and those who did not meet the standards were frequently ostracized and labeled as outcasts. In The Scarlet Ibis, James Hurst presents the idea of society manipulating Brother’s perception, which is evident because of Brother rejecting Doodle’s differences and forcefully pressuring Doodle to behave normally. This inevitably results in Doodle to succumbing to the unwanted pressure from his brother to integrate into the norm. Doodle’s family’s perspective on his disability was also molded and influenced by the unreal expectations set by society. The symbolism present in the story was heavily used to represent Doodle’s struggles throughout his journey.

It swirled against the log spiles of the bridge. Nick looked down into the clear, brown water, colored from the pebbly bottom and watched the trout keeping themselves steady in the current with wavering fins. As he watched them they changed their position by quick angles, only to hold steady in the fast water again. (Hemingway 177)

After watching them fly for half an hour, she starts to form a connection for the birds. The passage says, “I stood with great difficulty, bashed by the unexpectedness of this beauty, and my spread lungs roared. My eyes pricked from the effort of trying to trace a feathered dot’s passage through a weft of limbs” (Dillard 2). Dillard is surprised at what the birds are doing. At first the birds were moving slowly, and then all of a sudden, the birds started to move faster and faster into the woods. She stood there watching all the birds, even the stragglers, vanish into the trees. Dillard broke down after this. The birds caused her to change her views, and she feels as if she has to take care of them. They are a part of her

As the bird swooped with the precision of bullet dropping from the sky with the sound of the wind hitting the birds wings hurling to its prey like a Falcon. The bird using its talons managed grip the Slug and began to fly into the sky. The slug began to wiggle out of

When her senses get overwhelmed by “starlings going to roost,” she only notes a “dimming sky,” not her exact location. She sees the starlings as “a loosened skin,” unraveling before her. As they flew overhead, “ the flight extended like a fluttering banner, an unfurled

Flies and glossy black ravens burst from the squirming mound, forming a twisting gyre of ill in the air. They mirrored the dust devils in the fields around them. His steps, like his song, faltered, and then stopped. He knew what lay ahead. Knew what filled his gut with such fear and revulsion.

birdcage.) Has the bird flown?”(268) The men are still clueless and do not see what the

the bird in the fifth and sixth verses, and so the bird returns to its

He wonders why the birds are just waiting in the sky as if they are waiting for a command, why they are restless, and he thinks it is strange that they are little birds and they are the type of the birds that normally keep to their own territory and don’t have a history of attacking people . When he looks out toward the coast, he sees the birds flocking in his direction and he believes that for some odd reason, they are going to come down to the

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach is a metaphorical novelette about a young gull and his life on earth. The story tells about Jonathan, and how when he was growing up his parents noticed that there was something different about him. Rather than going with all the gulls to the port to search for food, Jonathan would linger back and practice flying. Flying was his obsession, for he saw it to be more meaningful than the practice of begging for food and snatching up fish. However, flying, like any other symbol in this parable, has a deeper meaning than it appears to have.