Short Story: Genos

The first quote I chose came from chapter 15. This quote shows that it harmed his chances of survival at first. Then when he realized what he did it helps him tremendously. As it says in the book (chapter 15) “ And that had been the secret. He Had been looking for the color of the bird.” This hurt him in his chance his survival because he had been

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.

Time ticked on, and still Louie remained in the same position, conscious and yet not, the beam over his head, his eyes on the Bird’s face, enduring long past when his strength should have given out. “Something went on inside of me,” he said later.

She makes up an entire story just so she can track down another person, Floyd Thursby, who is also looking for the bird (The Maltese Falcon). So Spades partner, Miles Archer, takes the responsibility of tailing Thursby. Unfortunately, Thursby and Archer are both later found dead. So the police soon start questioning Spade on suspicion he had something to do with it and at the same time Spade is questioning Miss Wonderly, whose real name is actually Brigid O’Shaughnessy. After he gets what he hopes is the total truth, another man named Joel Cairo comes out and asks Spade to find the bird for $10,000 and after that an even more serious man named Casper Gutman offers Spade more than everyone else to get the bird. Spade is the only one that knows where it is and is still being questioned by the police. When the morning finally comes when Spades secretary picks up the falcon from the train station Gutman above all is excited. He starts scratching away at the enamel which should have gold underneath but he soon enough realizes that there is nothing but lead underneath it. Disappointed he offers everyone to go out and get it back from the Russian Constantinople who switched the real one. Cairo accepts the offer and they leave. Immediately Spade phones the police and gives them all the names of the murderers and everyone involved. They catch them all and Spade then turns in Brigid even though they had become so close.

Because of the supposed similarities between humans and birds, birds are a useful tool for authors wishing to symbolize human emotions or thoughts. Mynott offers that birds are often “distinguished partly by the different human emotions they seem to be revealing” (Mynott 282). He references several examples of the use of human-specific traits in the description of birds, such as “kind,” “stern,” and “astonished” (282). It is not such a huge leap from the attribution of such human characteristics, to “anthropomorphic misdescription” (282). The birds in The Ant of the Self are said to be looking “as though they [had] placed bets” on who would lose Spurgeon’s and his father’s confrontation. While Spurgeon is taking a stand against his father by ordering him out of the car and onto the shoulder of the road, the birds’ curious glances are exposing Spurgeon’s own thoughts. The birds, a symbol for Spurgeon, wonder whether he or his father will “go down in flames” (Packer 95). The caged birds, which are so capable of human expressions, are expressing Spurgeon’s thoughts. ZZ Packer endows the birds with a look of human quizzicality, having them glance from the nervous Spurgeon to his angered father. Spurgeon wonders whether he or his father will win, and the birds, as his symbol, express this.

What I Think: After yet more humiliation and abuse from the Bird, Louie loses all but a single thought: “He cannot break me.” I think it is incredible how, after so much exhaustion and agony Louie only thinks about how he will not succumb to it all.

First, Angela Johnson’s book “Bird” is like a poem that flows together, but sometimes confusing. The author words her book very well, she uses different events in the story to describe different themes. Bird, thirteen year old, is the main character in the book. Bird is very young but she takes on many difficult task on her own, but after she makes friends everything is easier for her.

Russell is an innocent fun-loving kid that was kind to everyone he met. He went up to this stranger of an old man and was trying to help him out and make conversation to get his badge. Russell was accepting of everything and anything that came his way. When a giant colorful bird randomly appears out of the forest and Carl wants to get rid of it because it is just more dead weight that he has to carry around, Russell stands up for the bird. He loves the bird and even gives it the name Kevin.

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.

This is where the bird may disappear or the cards may look like they’re shuffled. Nicola Tesla is a renowned scientist whom Angier asks to build him a teleportation machine. Angier refuses to believe that the secret of Borden’s trick is a double. Tesla eventually builds a machine that duplicates whoever the machine is acting upon. Since the machine duplicates the object it’s affecting, Angier is forced to kill the clone. Using this machine, Angier’s shows become more popular than Borden’s and, once again, ignites another feud between the

She was stranded. She had not thought of the situation in all her planning. She was in a massive dilemma.

The reason he is sensitive is because he has a big heart for everything around his surroundings. He also wanted to care for the bird after his death in the selection. For example, he mourned the death of the ibis. This is because he started to feel sympathy since the bird had just passed away. In addition, he avoided what his Aunt

“I saw one of the brumble beasts flying into camp, it was wounded, the other three are missing.”

Suddenly she felt a stinging, then numbing sensation run up her legs and was strapped into a wheelchair. She was rolled into a very dark and presumably vacant room.

She had made too many mistakes, ignored more than she needed to. And now the house was burning. It was over, all over.