Lying is known as a bad thing to do in life. When growing up, children are told not to lie to their parents, and if a child does lie to their parents they are punished for lying. Children should never lie to anyone, especially their parents. In the short story “The Birds” by Du Maurier, the main character Nat Hocken repeatedly lied to his family because the children were too young to understand, the children needed to remain calm, and the wife did not need to know what had happened. To begin with, Nat Hocken did not think his children were old enough to understand that the birds were deadly, therefore he lies to them to keep their minds off of the deadly birds. Nat thought his children were too young to understand what was going on, therefore he lied to them. When children are young they do not understand certain things, and this is why Nat has lied to his children about the birds. In a way he was right …show more content…
Therefore, he lies to his wife about needing help moving the supplies into the car. When he gets right outside of the house he finds Mr. Trigg lying dead in the yard with a shotgun beside him and near the telephone that is in the yard. When he goes into the house, he finds Mrs. Trigg lying dead upstairs in the bedroom with a broken umbrella, and about fifty dead birds beside her. In conclusion, the Hocken’s were the only family to survive the birds. Nat Hocken and his family were in a fight against deadly birds, and they boarded the windows, doors, and chimneys to survive the attacks of the birds. Then, Nat lied to his children because they were too young to understand the deadly attack results. He also lied because his children need to stay as calm as the ocean on a warm sunny day. Nat lied to his wife because she did not need to know what had happened to the Trigg’s. Overall, the Hocken’s survived the birds because of the bravery of
The novel Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott is a book that was written in order to provide “Some instructions on writing and life.” Lamott published the book in 1994 in hopes to share the secrets of what it is truly like to be a writer, as both a warning and as encouragement. Bird by Bird shares with the reader the ironic truth of being a struggling writer through personal experience and humorous stories. Lamott uses memories from her past to help illustrate her points and to help the reader get to know who she is, not only as a writer, but as a person. The author focuses on the true struggles and benefits of being a writer while using metaphors and analogies to express her points, she also wraps her life stories around almost every writing tip.
Some people seem to tell lies for one of two reasons -- to protect themselves or to protect others. In the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time both motivations occur: Christopher simply does not lie; his dad, however, concocts a huge lie in order to protect his son.
Karis started darting to a field by the house that got robbed. When she got to the field she put her noes on the ground beside a picture of a family. Mother picked it up and went over to the man that owned the house.
The birds attack in the same way also. They come through the house, peck at the windows, and try to come through the doors. They succeed in coming through upstairs in both the film and the short story.
And No Birds Sang is the story of a young Canadian man, Farley Mowat. The story begins September 2nd, 1939 with a young Farley painting his parents porch when his dad pulls into the driveway and excitedly claims the war is on! Farley was an eager eighteen year old with the aspiration of joining the air force and becoming a fighter pilot. In one month he presented to the Royal Canadian Air Force, he was rejected due to his young age and slim build. Instead he was enlisted in the 2nd Battalion called the Hasty Pees, with the expectation of being transferred to the 1st Battalion and active service. The story follows Mr. Mowat and his experiences during multiple battles as the Allies invaded and eventually took over Italy. The title comes shortly after Farley’s first battle when everything was quiet in the air and no birds sang.
Nat fears that his friends and neighbors will get hurt so he tries to warn them, but this warning wasn't taken seriously because no one had the fear level that Nat had towards the birds.
Another reason that Mrs. Wright could’ve been pushed to murder her husband was because of some evidence the women found in a shoe box and assumed to be the husbands doing was the broken neck of her canary. The canary was used by Glaspell to represent Mrs. Wright’s spirit and her marriage. The reasoning for this distinction was because earlier in the story the two women described Mrs. Wright as a free spirited person with a sweet voice like a canary. She needed to stand up for herself against the abuse and oppression as a housewife a decision made from the death of her beautiful bird. Just like the bird had a cage she too was caged in her own home. She felt in prisoned to her marriage so with free of death to her bird brought courage to give herself freedom or perhaps it’s just coincidence that her husband was discovered with a broken neck just like her canary.
A devoted mother, Anne Bradstreet is concerned with her children as she watches them grow up. “Or lest by Lime-twigs they be foil'd, or by some greedy hawks be spoil'd” Anne Bradstreet uses to describe her fear for her children. Not wanting to see her children suffer, Anne Bradstreet turns to God to help her children. Bradstreet imagines her bird’s being stuck on a branch and a hawk eating them, a grim image of all of her sacrifice being lost in a single moment. “No cost nor labour did I spare” describes how much Anne loves her children.
The bird and the birdcage in trifles represents how Minnie Foster, now Mrs. Wright used to be before her marriage to John Wright. In this play, the bird and the bird cage represent two different things but they are still connected at the end. She knew all along that she killed him for a reason and denied it "Someone slipped a rope around his neck and strangled him and you didn't wake up?" (Glaspell,
Although it is considered wrong to tell lies, it seems that literature has offered us situations where telling lies isn’t necessarily bad. Of course, lying often has a tragic outcome, but not always for the person or people who told the lie or lies. Oftentimes, these unfortunate outcomes are directed at the person about whom the lie was told. Furthermore, these stories have explained that dishonesty can result in success for both the liar and the target. Maybe we have been teaching the wrong values to our children.
Art and literature work independently of each other, however, they can be linked together to help a reader or observer understand in new ways and create new possibilities. Within this context, the perspective of Jacob Lawrence and the authors address that it takes work to build the ideal society and family. However, the authors give the stark reality of both society and family demonstrating that our reality is nothing like the ideal.
The first reason Paul and Kat should not have returned for the geese is the risky driver. Paul and Kat did not know the driver very well, the driver might tell Himmelstoss, and the driver could get
arrow through his heart four times, and the bird flew north again”. This part of the story jumps into the
Mr. Wright was a cruel, cold, and heartless man. He was also a very unsociable man. He abandoned his wife's contentment and paid very little attention to his wife's opinions. He even prevented her from singing. This is revealed about Mr. Wright during the conversations between Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters when they find the dead bird with a twisted neck in Mrs. Wright's sewing basket. Mrs. Hale points out, "She- come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself-real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and-fluttery. How-she-did-change" (Glaspell 1267). Mrs. Wright used to be a very high-s...
In the thriller short story “The Birds”, by du Maurier, there are many characters and events that occur to separate this story from almost any other story. By examining his characterization, morality, and functions, it becomes clear that du Maurier is characterizing Nat as a hero that takes danger and unexpectedness in a straightforward manner to reveal the certain skill and mindset needed in order to survive in the position that Nat is in.