The Bird : A Short Story : Story Of A Bird

“For those determined to fly, having no wings is just a little detail.” Flying is one of the most common things; people dream they can be able to imagine how flying would be like. It would be something incredible to experience But in this story everything turns out not so well.

They saw a bird as caged, fragile, and beautiful, who like a woman needs to protect her nest, but the bird must be nurtured, because on her own she was incapable, and vulnerable. (The British Library, 2014).

When he bought it he whispered to the bird,”I know who will take care of you, little bird.” He was going to give the bird to his ill daughter to make her feel better. Like all of the other characters the man didn’t know what the swallow was saying. He placed the cage in the room and left. When the girl woke up in the middle of the night she saw the birdcage in her room and she realised how terrible it can be when a bird is in there. None of the characters understood what the bird wanted so badly but finally the bird has its chance. The bird slightly hesitated then opened its wings and flew away. Additionally, the girl said,”Will you fly for me, too, little bird?” stating that she can’t get free but she wants to feel free.

Birds are a common sight in most places people tend to be. These winged creatures are seen in bustling places like the pigeons that are in urban and suburban areas, the woodpeckers in rural regions, the crows on farms, and even in cages within buildings. In fact, these elegant creatures are so common a sight in society that they are often overlooked and underappreciated. This is similar to how women were and sometimes still are treated within society; they are given little appreciation when they are present and doing as they are told, but when they do not do as they are told they become a problem. This parallel that can be drawn between women and birds is used throughout Kate Chopin’s novel, The Awakening, in which its main character Edna Pontellier is often likened to and symbolized by a bird. Throughout the novel, the bird acts as a theme and symbol of both Edna and women in general.

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.

In the scene Edna had envisioned earlier the man was watching a bird flying away. At the end of he novel there is a bird as well, however, here it has a broken wing and is “beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled down, down to the water” (138). This passage reminded me of a scene earlier in the novel where Edna tells Arobin about her last encounter with Mademoiselle Reisz that has left her thinking about something the pianist had said to her: “She says queer things sometimes in a bantering way that you don’t notice at the time and you find yourself thinking about afterward.” Edna tells Arobin: “[S]he put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said. ‘The bird that would sour above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see weaklings

delicate vision of a bird: “I fly with my own wings. I don’t need anyone else to hold me up.”

I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless and in this moment I am happy.

When Melanie is sitting on the bench, and multiple scenes switching back and forth from Melanie’s face to the broad view of the birds piling onto the playground makes a jaw-dropping, on the edge of our seat feel. This shows the “bipolar” attitude the birds have, one second they will be simply sitting there, then the next moment the birds begin attacking anyone they can see. Another example of this is during the beginning of the movie while Melanie is rowing back to the dock from Mitch’s house and then the seagull pecks at her face. The seagull was simply flying around and then one second later, the bird is swooping down, coming straight at her face. By the pecking to the face, to the piling of birds are ways the hardship can be

Without the human aware I’m behind her, I grabbed her from behind. She starts shrieking like a banshee and thrashing her arms and legs. I use my fist to shut this human up; they’re so fragile it doesn’t take much to break them. I threw her over my slumping shoulder and started to turn toward the sea as I hear another human yelling at me.

Suddenly, her sharp bird ears picked up a small sound. A sniffle, from down the hall. Silently, she turned her wings in that direction and found Reesa sitting in an armchair. Her inner agent relaxed, but noticed that the girl’s face was red and covered in tear tracks. She must have noticed Marya’s bird form flying down the hall, and for some reason began to cry harder.

The shiny feathers on its chest rose and fell in rapid succession as her heart drummed in wild synchronicity. There was no clear distinction between which one of them was more afraid, her or the bird.

“The Bird Catcher” depicts a woman trapped inside someone else’s cage. The woman is clearly in a place where she does not belong, while the birds are toying with her as she is placed in this foreign place. Clearly the cage is meant for the birds, but the woman in this cage is trying to fight her oppressors even while they may think she is in a place where she cannot fight back. The woman is trying to trap the birds in her own net even though she herself is trapped. The birds clearly see her as a threat as they circle and

She feels like it is too quiet and lonely without the bird,

Birds have beautiful feathers and lovely songs that bring joy and wonder to us humans. And flight is the feature that probably captures the human imagination more than anything else. For millennia, people have watched birds in the sky and wished we could fly, too.