Song Bird Response

In Sven Birkerts writing, “The Owl Has Flown,” Birkerts puts forth something to think about for any modern day reader. Birkerts believes that over the years the methodology of reading has changed as the technology has advanced. In the older days, people had small amounts of texts to choose from, but read them more thoroughly, and gained in depth knowledge about each book. In this day and age, the scope of reading has broadened but at the same time become shallower. He believes that we now read large amounts of materials, divulging ourselves into all sorts of different subject matter, but that we merely skim across its surface gaining no knowledge. In his opinion we have gone from vertical to horizontal depth. He deems an increase in the

The Novel Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks is a story of various parts of one mans life, Stephen Wraysford. The first par of the book is a love story, when Stephen Wraysford is living and working in Northern France. The main text of the book is when Stephen Wraysford returns to Northern France again, this time as an officer in the British Army, during the First World War. This is the section in which Jack Firebrace features. The final part of the book is a recurring sub plot set in the seventies.

“Song of the Hummingbird” was written by Graciela Limon . The book is about an Aztec princess Huitzitzilin who talks about what happens to her during the Spanish conquest. Huitzitzilin decided to tell her story to Father Benito who is one of the main characters in the book. At the end of the book, Huitzitzilin dies and Father Benito finally sees the truth through her eyes and her story. The main idea or the lesson that this book is trying to teach a person is that you should not automatically judge a person until you get to know them. The book “Song of the Hummingbird” caused me to have a rollercoaster of emotions and the lesson that I liked the most from this book was that you should give someone a chance before you judge them. The lesson that the book teaches the students is that you need to have the strength and you need fight for what you believe in no matter what the punishments are.

Maya Angelou was a civil rights activist, author, and poet. She wrote many books and poems that conveyed the vivid experiences in her life. Maya Angelou’s works are well known and she is an eminent writer. One poem in particular that is well known is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” written in 1969. In this work she described racial inequality, and the lack of freedom African Americans experienced in the 1930’s and 40’s. Maya Angelou uses many Rhetorical strategies and literary devices to describe the lack of racial freedom in the world at this time.

Have you ever wondered just how fast a Hummingbird's wing beats? Or how many times a Hummingbird’s heart beats per minute? Well, I am here to enlighten your bird loving souls. For those of you who don’t know, a Hummingbird’s wing can beat up to 200 times per second, and a Hummingbird’s heart while in flight can beat up to 1,250 times per minute. Special muscles in their “shoulder” areas allow for them to fly in all directions, up, down, left, right you name it. These are just the basic facts, now let’s get into the good stuff.

Watching this film Bird by Bird about this writer named Annie, showed us how she takes her life and writing as free flowing but also have the opposite side of having road blocks with hard to swallow situations .It is rather interesting how she expresses her writing in a such real raw vibe that people can make a connection from her writing. They way she handles herself in real life transfers onto how she approaches her writing, which to me I find it a rare quality in a creative person in this type of area. Why I find it is rare is because usually a writer has a format to go about to write a short story or any other format there is rules to go by but she however does not apply that in fact she does the complete opposite. How she goes towards writing is by emotion and does not sweat the fact whatever idea she trying to jot down on paper she is not worrying about having the idea to be perfect in the minutes she is taking to get her idea on paper.

portray the early life of Ernesto Galarza, it also does a tremendous job of capturing the essence of

The Novel “Song of a Humming Bird” by Graciela Limón is an outstanding novel that emphasis on an elderly Indian woman. Who is close to her death and is inclined to come to church for forgiveness for thy “sins” she has committed. This book is focused how Indian women lived back in the 50’s. It mentions two different opinions from an Indian and a Spaniard. I enjoyed this book a lot it gave me an inside of what happened back in the 50’s. I will be describing the difference between two main characters in the book, the challenges the main character faced (Huitzitzilin) through the whole book. As well the culture for both characters. I liked how the author (Graciela Limón) started current and then talked about the past while being in the

Do you think that one small change can result in significant consequences? “A Sound of Thunder” is a short story written in 1952 by Ray Bradbury. This story is also considered science fiction. In “A Sound of Thunder” it is obvious that one small one change can have far reaching consequences, as evidenced by when Eckels stepped on a simple butterfly it caused a different result in a president election, and it caused their whole language to change.

Christmas bird counts in Florida usually occur in relatively balmy weather in the state's dry season when thundershowers are rare. On the other hand it often involves getting up well before dawn to look and listen for owls.

5. In this tale, what is meant by “marriage by purchase” and “elopement”? How are these practices viewed by the community here? Why do they accept Blue Bird? (see 104-105)

After their son José drowns in a flood, Teresa and Alejandro Levi fall into dispute about the nature of religion. Teresa curses God’s cruelty, and she scorns her faith-keeping friends. Alejandro, on the other hand, is no stranger to suffering. He watched his own mother get axed to death by her mad Hungarian maid during a surge of anti-Semitic pogroms in Ukraine, so he responds to his son’s death by retreating more deeply into prayer. He prays so intensely that he breaks into “the Interworld,” an in-between world of pure spirit. Here he meets a rabbi, and, much to Teresa’s disbelief and frustration, this rabbi becomes Alejandro’s constant companion and advisor in all things.

A brave woman sang a sombre song from inside a birdcage in the late 19th century. As a novelist and also a well-known feminist, Charlotte Perkins Gilman fearlessly spoke up about her conception, freedom, in her masterpiece, “The Yellow Wallpaper”. She proposed big issue-divorce- around that time. In this semi-autographical story, she describes her conflict of marital discord. Gilman intertwines her frustrations about a relationship with her husband and depicts the distress through many symbols, so that people should be aware what genuine happiness as a human being is.

If I were to choose a title to the story of my life, it would be something ordinary, very basic, mundane to a certain point. As a child I was fascinated with cartoons, especially "As Told by Ginger". To be direct, my title would be "Greener Grass" because of the opening song line to the theme of "As Told by Ginger". I tend to see the brighter side of things in life and throughout the hardships of my mother's death and overall depression I managed to get to the other side where the grass was greener but there is something deeper than that. It is the journey that keeps you in between the brownish grass and the greener grass but by always looking ahead towards happiness I was able to find my green

Birdsong is a first-person story about how a woman fell in love with a married man, and after some quarrels and conflicts, she found that her lover just used her for satisfaction, then she left him. For the theme of the story, it encourages women to break norms which are unfair and biased, whatever in the romantic relationship or in the workplace. In the paragraphs I chose, the author asked lots of questions about the unfair treat she experienced and the imbalance of their romantic relationship, those questions guide us to witness the process of how she maintained and developed her role as a woman, a lover and an employee.