Doug's Feathers

The text "Dougy" the characters who arise to fear, dougy through being shy and facing the moodudda. Gracey through racial tension with the whites and about leaving the town with her. scholarship. cooper and his friends give into fear about how the blacks get everything for free and they get nothing. Characters in Dougy when faced with fear and panic either rise to the challenge or give into fear.

In part II of the story it starts out, “The Sun now rose upon the right…”, it’s continuing the theme of nature. This now begins the rollout of the effects of the Mariners decision. The men are now fighting amongst themselves questioning whether the Albatross was good or bad, “For all averred, I had killed the bird that made the breeze to blow.” (Coleridge, 93-94, pt II). They were the ones that believed the Albatross was good, and the others, “Ah wretch! Said they, the bird to slay, that made the breeze to blow!” (Coleridge, 95-96, pt II). When the bird was shot the affects of the choice was not immediately felt, because the ship kept sailing even though the bird was dead. “And the good south wind still blew behind, but now sweet bird did follow,...” (Coleridge,

‘Sleep good Doug?’ he said, as if he has been here all the time, and hadn’t been gone for three months” (2). The author writing through Doug in the first person allows him to give more detail and clarity to the situation as well as highlight how Doug views his father as a man who leaves his family for a long period of time, yet returns as if he never left. Doug’s view of his father after his return sheds light on the recurring notion of a poorly functioning family, a key theme within the reading. Furthermore, the author inserts dialogue within Doug’s story of events to add more credibility to Doug’s version of events. Dialogue is added when Doug speaks with his father while on vacation, “Doug …. I want you to promise me something. ‘What?’ Don’t ever be a Rocket Man. …. I mean it” (7). Doug’s conversation with his father is an example of how Bradbury tells the story through Doug, just another way the author is able to exemplify the father’s unhappiness and dysfunctional family while keeping a consistent and eventful storyline.

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

Bird with the broken wing. - the bird was flying in circles, representing Edna’s thoughts in her ind swirling and her dwelling on trying to escape but not being able to.

The story is told as an historical narrative about the lives and relationships of the four main characters in this movie, Gordy, Chris, Teddy, and Vern. This relationship created a sense of belonging that is unparalleled, still being of significant impact to the narrator as he depicts though his telling of the story. The narrator, one of the boys named Gordie, is specifically impacted through this friendship, creating the sense of self belonging he longed to develop. Gordie had been physically and mentally starved of belonging from his parents. As his parents favourite child had died (Gordie’s brother Denny), they had fell into a great depression, attempting to remove all emotion from their soul. This is shown throughout the movie, as Gordie has flash backs of his past, with the most memorable one being the graveyard scene. As Gordie’s brother was being buried, his father approached him stating that “It should have been [Gordie].” Despite the sadness and importance of the situation, his father still delivered those horrendous remarks to his grieving son. His parents used Gordie as a punching bad, an outlet for there anger at the world for taking there Son so soon. From these remarks and actions spurred a deep dejection towards Gordie. He felt that he wasn’t welcome, and actually started to believe his father’s remarks. However, as his circle of friends developed throughout the journey, and Gordie started to learn about his friends in depth, Gordie felt that his friends accepted him and found him useful. He finally had a meaning in such a diluted world, a sense of self worth. One example of Gordie finally experiencing a sense of belonging was while the sitting around the camp fire, the boys beseeched him into sharing one of his marvellous stories, that he personally believed were childish and

| This is how he starts out the book and it is in a way introducing you to one of the worst childhoods that you can have. It also shows you that you can go beyond your childhood and become something or do something with your life. I think it is kind of weird that one of the worst childhood to have is Irish because that would not have been the first one on my list.

The main character is Doug Swieteck in the book “Okay for Now.” At the beginning of the story they introduce Doug receiving a baseball cap from Joe Pepitone than later that day Doug’s brother threatened to injure him if he didn’t give him the hat. So right away it showed that it was not easy for the main character at home. When the author introduced Doug it made him seem like he was just a normal boy living a contented life but in actuality his life is anything but joyful.     The author has made it clear through Doug's actions that he is pretty mellow and not the kind of guy who tries and takes control of a situation, for example on page 2 when Christopher got Doug to tell him where his hat was that belonged to Joe Pepitone. He is

Although Birdie’s sad story seems to be very tragic, it is not identical to the normal literary tragedies that we normally see. Usually, a tragedy is written with a heroic character and features characters acting out the roles of the story. Instead, Waxen Wings displays a girl who loves flying, but is caught up in a series of unfortunate events Unless the reader is also a lover or flying, it is

The “Red Bird” took a big role in this story. By Doodle rushing outside to a strange noise in his front yard. Seeing a rare bird on the bleeding tree that was blown off course of the bleeding tree by the storm.Then as hitting the ground the bird died. The next day him and his brother were getting ready to do Doodle’s daily workout but then Doodle couldn’t do them due to his weakness. Then as the storm struck the narrator took of running as Doodle tried to catch up yelling, “Please don’t leave me behind”(6). Finally Doodle had fallen just like the bird did and

Across the compound, the Bird had stopped laughing” (p. 302).He was holding that stick for 37 minutes simply “filling” his body with the energy of his own words and thoughts that convinced him about how strong his is. More than once Louie had shown his firm power, confidence and purposefulness which helped him survive and stay cold-blooded. Only strong will to live lead him to his light -to

Birds are an exotic species. The ability to fly and dart across the beautiful, open sky is something no other creature can do. Both authors of these passages seem to have found their magnificence and were taken by storm when writing their excerpts. John James Audubon and Annie Dillard both worked graciously to achieve success in their writing. These authors have written wonderful paragraphs filled with rhetorical devices that are both the same and vastly different.

“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

What really is going on? The author is clearly stating what happens in the life of a hummingbird all the way to death. It gives details of the death and why the death is occurring.

The bird is in an air pump deprived from oxygen, weak and not in control. Since the bird doesn’t have oxygen, it collapses. Before the bird dies, it is introduced with oxygen once again therefore keeping it alive. The two small girls seem to have an emotional attachment to the bird and are very emotional seeing the bird collapse, near death. This experiment seems to have the bird seem in little to no power. They are using nature in a science view and seeing how they can experiment. Versus the bird in Edgar Allan Poe’s poem The raven, where the raven is the main focal point and the answer to all the questions and prayers the man is asking. Looking at nature in a more pure way. In the experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump, reflected social change, embracing of natural beauty, also enthusiasm for technology and science. Through this time, many started having love and a fascination for science. Through enlightenment, science, nature and democracy were promoted during the industrial revolution. The enlightenment period was different from the romanticism period for a few reasons. During the enlightenment period, people studied the nature and how it progressed. Versus romanticism, where they were more focused on the traditional nature which we see here with our two examples: the raven and an experiment on a bird in the