Imagine if you were in a bird apocalypse, where these birds all of a sudden just became vicious and started attacking everyone. There has to be an explanation to it! In the story “The Birds,” by Daphne du Maurier, demonstrates this story to not only be a survival to the fittest, but also a horror because it is filled with lots of suspense. These birds went from innocent creatures to merciless killers. There are many different explanations to this bird apocalypse. In the short story “The Birds,” the reason why the birds changed their behaviors and got rid of almost all the of the humans is because of the high tides and they hay hated the humans. First, in the story it says that one day the weather changed and that’s when they started to attack. …show more content…
In the short story ‘The Birds,” it says that, “dislocation,” is a sinister word that may mean the order of nature has been broken and humanity has lost its dominion over the birds. It also said,” Once the weather changed, Nat notices that there are a lot more birds around than usual and that they have been more aggressive,” indicating that once there were high tides that the birds became more violent. Birds may seem nice and innocent creatures, but they can a lot of times become a lot more aggressive and start attacking anything or anybody. For example, like when they want to protect their nests and their young babies, or when food is scarce, they tend to protect their food that they placed in a certain area, or like when there are predators that are trying to catch the birds. In this story the birds are most likely aggressive because the humans were trying to take their territory, What Nat and others assumed at the beginning, before the bird attacks become too serious, is that the birds are acting in such bizarre ways …show more content…
In the story, it said that “The birds were murderous birds, which had succeeded in killing many people. In the story, it also said, “Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains.” This suggests that there has been some sort of evil or hatred for millions of years, of man that exists deep within birds and has only now found its full expression. In the story it talks about how the birds pecked Nat’s eyes and attacked him viciously, Nat also gets attacked again as a bird was jabbing his knuckles and grazing his skin, and they also mutilated his neighbors’ bodies. Nat and his family understood that the littler winged creatures assaulted initially, trailed by the bigger flying creatures. They were likewise exceptionally mindful of the day by day calendar managed by the birds’ assaults and utilized that attention further maintaining their good fortune and assembled nourishment, and different necessities when the birds exhibited generally little risk. They were trying to kill everybody and they did except for one family, which was Nat’s
In the narrative poem “Cautionary Tale of Girls and Birds of Prey” the author, Sandy Longhorn, tells the story of a young girl who is afraid of a hawk, and her inconsiderate father who doesn’t take her concerns seriously. The story shows how her father is determined to get rid of her fear of the hawk, because he thinks it is both foolish and childish. The daughter very well knows the capability of the hawk, however her father doesn’t acknowledge it until it is too late. In the poem, Longhorn uses alliteration and rhyme to help explore the theme of how being inconsiderate towards others can in the end hurt you as much as it hurts them. The poem takes place on a little farm where the girl and her father live with all of their livestock.
I thought of the reading as just another environmental writing trying to bring light to extinction of a species of bird. Then once I sat down a few nights ago I read the passage and I started to tear up reading about these poor birds brutally hunted. I started to feel the same emotions as Stratton-Porter did when she saw the bag of birds at her neighbor’s house. What really shocked me about how these birds went extinct. No one else saw them as Stratton-Porters father did, biblically. Her father told the other men in their neighborhood about how killing off the quails were bad for farming. Stratton-Porter states, “These things he studied out and began to pass along to his neighbors, even to put in his sermons that he preached in the pulpit” (196). Towards the end, I really enjoyed with how Stratton-Porter saw the wild pigeon after they were thought to be extinct, with a price for its capture and had no desire to disturb the bird. Stratton-Porter states, “So here I was looking with all my soul at one specimen of a bird bearing on its head a price ranging from one hundred up, with no way and no desire to capture it” (204). The very last part of this piece blew me away by the emotion wave I got feeling the bird voicing his thoughts. With the extinction of the passenger pigeon, there has been conservation movements to protect the wildlife and there habitat from
The tile of the poem “Bird” is simple and leads the reader smoothly into the body of the poem, which is contained in a single stanza of twenty lines. Laux immediately begins to describe a red-breasted bird trying to break into her home. She writes, “She tests a low branch, violet blossoms/swaying beside her” and it is interesting to note that Laux refers to the bird as being female (Laux 212). This is the first clue that the bird is a symbol for someone, or a group of people (women). The use of a bird in poetry often signifies freedom, and Laux’s use of the female bird implies female freedom and independence. She follows with an interesting image of the bird’s “beak and breast/held back, claws raking at the pan” and this conjures a mental picture of a bird who is flying not head first into a window, but almost holding herself back even as she flies forward (Laux 212). This makes the bird seem stubborn, and follows with the theme of the independent female.
Also the behavior of birds is important here because it is a known fact that birds push their young out of the nests when the parent thinks it is time for them to fly. This disconnects them form their own kin too, because sometimes if the young bird cannot fly yet then they will smash into the ground and die. The birds might have also lost their homes in this massacre. They do not have the intelligence to actually know what happened or if there is going to be more of what happened, so they must simply ask what
The diction surrounding this alteration enhances the change in attitude from self-loath to outer-disgust, such as in lines 8 through 13, which read, “The sky/ was dramatic with great straggling V’s/ of geese streaming south, mare’s tails above them./ Their trumpeting made us look up and around./ The course sloped into salt marshes,/ and this seemed to cause the abundance of birds.” No longer does he use nature as symbolism of himself; instead he spills blame upon it and deters it from himself. The diction in the lines detailing the new birds he witnesses places nature once more outside of his correlation, as lines 14 through 18 read, “As if out of the Bible/ or science fiction,/ a cloud appeared, a cloud of dots/ like iron filings, which a magnet/ underneath the paper
The couple in the story is a couple that has been together a long time and persevered through life together. When they first see the whooping cranes the husband says “they are rare, not many left” (196). This is the point in the story where the first connection between the couple and the cranes are made. The rarity of the cranes symbolizes the rarity of the couple’s relationship. Although they have started developing anomalies in their health, with the husband he “can’t smoke, can’t drink martinis, no coffee, no candy” (197) ¬—they are still able to laugh with each other and appreciate nature’s beauty. Their relationship is a true oddity; filled with lasting love. However this lasting love for whooping cranes has caused some problems for the species. The whooping cranes are “almost extinct”; this reveals a problem of the couple. The rare love that they have is almost extinct as well. The wife worries about her children because the “kids never write” (197). This reveals the communication gap between the two generations, as well as the different values between the generations. These different values are a factor into the extinction of true love.
Nature is a symbol of life and death in many cultures around the world. In the movie “The Revenant”, nature plays a key role in the lives of anyone in the woods. At the beginning of the movie, Glass’s wife was killed and a bird flew out of her chest after she died to show her soul flying away. Birds make a strong appearance throughout the movie. One example is when Hawk was stabbed to death by Fitzgerald because Fitzgerald was greedy and didn’t want Hawk to get in his way, the sound of a distant bird's chirp is heard as if the mother was calling out to her son. Whenever Glass’s life is at stake, the sounds of the bird’s chirp is always heard. She calls out to her husband and tells him to keep being strong. In the words she said before she died, she said “As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight. You breathe. Keep breathing.” She said these words, even in the form of a bird calling out to Glass in the woods, to tell Glass to keep fighting through others’
represent in real life. Birds are a part of a class of animals that have the ability to roam
The birds show symbolism in more than one way throughout the text. As the soldiers are travelling from all over the world to fight for their countries in the war, the birds are similarly migrating for the change of seasons. The birds however, will all be returning, and many of the soldiers will never return home again. This is a very powerful message, which helps the reader to understand the loss and sorrow that is experienced through war.
One of the main parts, or maybe the main part of the story, takes place by a lake that is the habitat of a group of these birds, and one could say that the whole story evolves around these beings. The human destroying of the loons' natural habitat symbolizes the invasion the white people made on the Indians territory. This is Piquette's background, and as the birds she suffers from this. The loons show no interest in humans and Piquette also as it seems has stopped caring about other people. She acts indifferently to her surroundings, and nowhere in the story can we see her showing any heartfelt feelings. As the birds become familiar to a new environment near their invaders, and have the chance to adapt to this "nearer to civilian life", Piquette marries a white man and has the chance to make a new life. Both the birds' chance and Piquette's attempt fail. Now they are forced to find another way of living. Their old way has been destroyed by the newcomers, and they have not succeeded in adapting to the white people's unyielding life style.
The Raven and Rime of the Ancient Mariner are two of the first horror stories ever written. They both involve a bird that has a huge amount of influence on the story. Keith French said, “Birds and other animals are vital parts of poems. One of the most vital birds in any poem is Poe’s Raven, without this bird obviously the events in this poem would have never happened, but it is more than just that. The type of bird, a Raven which symbolises fear or dread, was the perfect fit for the poem.” Each bird does something different in their respective story. Some things they have in common like that they both give a sense of false hope. Other things they do not have in common like how the Albatross is considered a good omen, where the Raven is considered a bad one.
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He became obsessed with the Bird, wanting revenge for the torture he had gone through. Louie resorted to alcoholism as a coping mechanism, and blamed all of his ongoing problems on the Bird. Around the world, the war was over; in Louie's mind, it raged on. For a period of time, Louie could not persevere through his plight. He began to lose his once irrevocable hope, and feared the man that be was becoming.
“A Bird came down the Walk,” was written in c. 1862 by Emily Dickinson, who was born in 1830 and died in 1886. This easy to understand and timeless poem provides readers with an understanding of the author’s appreciation for nature. Although the poem continues to be read over one hundred years after it was written, there is little sense of the time period within which it was composed. The title and first line, “A Bird came down the Walk,” describes a common familiar observation, but even more so, it demonstrates how its author’s creative ability and artistic use of words are able to transform this everyday event into a picture that results in an awareness of how the beauty in nature can be found in simple observations. In a step like narrative, the poet illustrates the direct relationship between nature and humans. The verse consists of five stanzas that can be broken up into two sections. In the first section, the bird is eating a worm, takes notice of a human in close proximity and essentially becomes frightened. These three stanzas can easily be swapped around because they, for all intents and purposes, describe three events that are able to occur in any order. Dickinson uses these first three stanzas to establish the tone; the tone is established from the poet’s literal description and her interpretive expression of the bird’s actions. The second section describes the narrator feeding the bird some crumbs, the bird’s response and its departure, which Dickinson uses to elaborately illustrate the bird’s immediate escape. The last two stanzas demonstrate the effect of human interaction on nature and more specifically, this little bird, so these stanzas must remain in the specific order they are presented. Whereas most ...