Geckos: A Short Story

In first paragraph of the novel, Kate Chopin describes an image of a bird that is restrained from its freedom just as Edna feels held back from hers. “A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door...” (Chopin, pg#) There is symbolism behind the caged bird, which refers to Edna’s feelings of imprisonment. The bird symbolize Edna at home, a place she can’t escape from and has to live with under her husband’s “ruling”. There is a saying in Spanish that states

When the saying is translated into English it means, Get out!  Get out!  Damn in!; the caged bird sends the message that Edna needs to get out of her marriage to make everything right in her life.  Like Edna, Nora is reflected as a trapped bird.  Nora, in "A Doll's House," is constantly referred to as a bird by her husband, Helmer.  As in the quote, "And I couldn't wish you anything but just what you are, my sweet little lark" (Ibsen 972).  Helmer show his ownership of Nora and how she is his little bird.  Unlike the image of a caged parrot, Nora is a bird trapped by the dominance of her husband.

“‘Back into your cage, Lilith?’ Jdahya [pronounced Sty-ya] asked softly. She stared at him through the hole [and] realized at once that he was trying to provoke her, make her overcome her fear. It would not have worked if he had not been so right. She was retreating into her cage—like a zoo animal that had been shut up for so long that the cage had become home” (Part 1, ch. 5).

Colette dreamed. She was sitting down though the ground was hundreds of feet below. In the northeast she make out her tower, though it was just a dot from where she was. Across from her was another Colette, motionless save for the slow rise and fall of her chest as she breathed. The black, smoky eyes betrayed it as Fetch. They sat across from each other wordlessly, and Colette began to clear her throat softly.

Consistently through Lucius Sims’ life, he is made fun of for looking different, much like how people are bullied today. Throughout the book, Lizard, Lucius Sims is portrayed by the author, Dennis Covington, as a mentally challenged person, and he contributes to the theme of overcoming bullying.

This project really got me out in the community to read a book to young kids about the amazing Santa Rosa Plateau. I really enjoyed this because the kids learned something about the animals and the plateau. The book, Leo the Extraordinarily Ordinary Lizard, shows many different species who help a lizard have fun, but are explained at the back of the book, and the plateau is also explained. I read this book to expand the kids mind to show what they can see at the plateau. Finally if the kid’s take this book personally it could lead to sparking one’s mind to go on nature walks and ask rangers what they can do to help.

The first step will be to dissect preserved specimens of both, barking and non-barking geckos, and to select representative samples of tissue from the laryngeal and the tracheal area. The non-barking geckos will serve as a control. This tissue must be processed by standard protocols, either by manual or automated techniques (processing in histology commonly refers to the removal of water or dehydration by placing the tissue in gradually increasing concentrations of alcohol, and then xylene, to finally infiltrating the tissue with paraffin or plastic). After processing the tissue will be embedded in paraffin block, and cut into micrometric sections and placed in positively charged glass slides.

Madame Lebrun’s caged parrot is a symbol of the caged feeling that Edna and women of her time experience.

The New Caledonian Crested Gecko is one of the most sought out reptiles in the herptoculture hobby today. This medium-sized gecko has all the qualities of what to expect of a pet lizard. They combine their sheer beauty and low maintenance and docile tempers, making it an all around great pet to own (Rhacodactylus, p. 16). In the herpetological society, the crested gecko’s popularity has grown above hobbyist, into the hands of many first time pet owners, giving a first time experience made easy. According to Fester, (2007) “the rare Crested Gecko thought to be extinct but rediscovered in New Caledonia in 1994” (fester’ at Ireland

God has given the frilled lizard a great ability to scare things away from him. It stands on its back legs, swaying back and forth . He opens up his mouth, then hisses. Bright frills of skin sticks out around his head. The lizard makes himself look big and to scare off others.

“I heard stories of a jungle cat called a jaguar.” Tizbeth studied the image that haunted her dreams

They heard lions and they opened the door to a surprise. They appeared to be real. Lydia became scared and worried about the children. ("Did you see? Did you feel?

When she awoke she did as he said, and when she reached the top of the steep cliff her grandpa struck the serpents with lightning bolts. He told her she was brave, and that in the future he may need her help again. After returning to her village she married a good man and had children and always told them “Be satisfied with simple

Later on in the story, She begins to feel a great deal of sympathy towards it and tries to set it free. When she is aware that she can’t set it free, she observes it more closely and realized that the thing in the wall is actually a woman, which later on she finds out is a woman just like her

The article I have is from a science news website, Live Science. The article is about how animals such as geckos and insects such as spiders can climb walls so easily. The writer of the article, Laura Geggel, talks in a third person point of view to go over general research picked up by doctors, comparisons to the animals, and scientific studies of insect and animal sticky conduction. The writer also talks in a relatively informative language to state solutions in how these animals and insects are able to walk on walls. The writer also made numerous examples to help explain solutions to the creature’s ability of wall climbing. The first is the comparison of the gecko wall climbing ability to the ability of a tiny spider. The second example