The Mystery Of The Jewel Birds

His daughter understood the bird better than all the others who had owned it. As soon as the swallow was brought to her by her father she noticed it was feeling sickly as was she. The text states“When the girl wakes suddenly in the middle of the night, the first thing she sees through her fever is a small cliff swallow blinking at her from behind the bars of a rattan cage. She knows too well how terrible it is to be kept inside. ‘I know what you need, little bird,’ she murmurs. But the swallow no longer believes what people say. Slowly, the sickly girl rises from her bed and carries the cage to the open window. Unlatching the rattan door, the girl asks, ‘Will you fly for me, too, little bird?’ And her language is one that the swallow understands.” This shows how the girl and the swallow understand each other. The swallow was able to fly under the rice moon yet another time. Both the little girl and the bird became free. The swallow passed by the little girl’s window every

Once upon a time in a land far away, a young girl named Cinderella lived with her Stepmother and two stepsisters. Although they were exceedingly cruel, Cinderella continued to be as benevolent as a human could be. One night Cinderella had come across a ball that her mother had forbidden her to attend. Her stepsisters tore and ripped her dress that she had made herself, so Cinderella couldn’t attend the ball. After Cinderella’s stepmother and sisters went off to the ball, a fairy godmother had appeared to grant Cinderella’s dreams to attend the ball. There she met a young fellow whom she danced with all night. Little had she known he was the prince who was throwing the ball. At the beginning of the night the fairy godmother had told

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.

To start off, we will start to talk about Who is the caged bird and why. I think that according to the story, “The Long Walk Home”

One of the women made the comment that Mrs. Wright used to be pretty and happy, when she was Minnie Foster not Minnie Wright. This is just the beginning of realizing that she was just pushed to far into depression and couldn't live up to John Wright's expectations anymore. The Wrights had no children and Mrs. Wright was alone in the house all day long. The women perceive John Wright to be a controlling husband who in fact probably wouldn't have children and this may have upset Mrs. Wright. They eventually find vacant bird cage and ponder upon what happened to the bird, realizing Mrs. Wright was lonely they figured she loved the bird and it kept her company. The women make reference to the fact that Mrs. Wright was kind of like a bird herself, and that she changed so much since she married John Wright. They begin looking for stuff to bring her and they find the bird dead and they realize someone had wrung its neck. This is when they realize Mrs. Wright was in fact pushed to far, John Wright had wrung her bird's neck and in return Minnie Wright wrung his.

The raven-haired princess laughed, thumbing the leather-bound book resting on her lap. Her olive skin shone in the bony light of a sun wreathed in mist. “Mayhaps I’ll hide it in the gardens. You’d never find it, you know. Then you could spend all day with me.” A blithe smile dimpled her cheeks and crinkled her eyes.

In A White Heron Sylvia stuggled in town to be happy and find herself. It wasnt till she came to live with her grandmother that she started to find a since of freedom within herself. One day while Sylvia was admiring the outdoors and walking home the cow she was greated by a young man. This young man was looking for a specific bird known as a white heron. He offered to pay anyone ten dollars that could show him the nest of the white heron. Sylvia and her grandmother were poor and could use the money. Sylvia had seen the bird before and had every intention on helping the young man find it. When she discovers that the heron has a family she decides that she can not help the young man any more. "She remembers how the white heron came flying through the golden air and how they watched the sea and the morning together, and Sylvia cannot speak; she cannot tell the heron's secret and give its life away" ( Jewett, 1886, 59). Sylvia spends time with the heron and feels like they are friends. "Were the birds better friends than their hunters might have been,- who can tell? Whatever

She tells Edna, “.. the bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong

Nathaniel would ignore his daughter as she begged him not to force her into a loveless marriage. The king sent word three days after Emma's eighteenth birthday to the prince she would marry asking him to visit their kingdom. The prince accepted Nathaniel's request and immediately set off for the kingdom he believed one day would be his son. Two days after the prince set off on a cold winter's night Emma snuck out of the castle to experience one night of true freedom before she was to wed a man whose name she didn't even know. Emma stole a horse out of the royal stables as the stable boy slept and rode it out of the village surrounding the castle she called home since she was born. Emma traveled to a village thirty miles away from the castle praying no one there would recognize her. The princess came upon a little rinky dink tavern which smelt of the behind of a goat mixed with the sweat of weary travelers. The tavern looked like so poorly built that a simple gust could send its wall crashing to the ground. All its table and chairs wobbled something which normally didn't go well with a room full of drunk men and

She is a lonely girl. She meets the prince in the woods. She meets him again at a ball. The prince’s father dies after the ball. Ella has a fairy Godmother who looks after her and helps

“I would not like to live under the sea; birds are a favorite thing to me

She would try to rationalize why the mother bat did not come looking for Stellaluna: “Well, maybe she got lost after escaping from the eagle,” and then make comments like, “The mother bird did what any mother would do when she started feeding the lost, little bat, because the bat looks like a bird. Maybe she thought that Stellaluna really was a bird,” referring to the point where the mother bird feeds Stellaluna.

Once upon a time, there lived a handsome prince who was greatly admired by the women in the kingdom and town. He was fair, tall, and attractive that everybody could not take eyes off from him. Annie was one of the girls who sincerely loved him. She dreamed of marrying the prince and becoming the beloved wife of him. With her hope, Annie went to the palace everyday to secretly watch the prince eating, playing, and sleeping.