Controversy: You Need To Stop Watching Those Birds

In his poem “The Great Scarf of Birds”, John Updike uses a flock of birds to show that man can be uplifted by observing nature. Updike’s conclusion is lead up to with the beauty of autumn and what a binding spell it has on the two men playing golf. In Updike’s conclusion and throughout the poem, he uses metaphors, similes, and diction to show how nature mesmerizes humans.

Her art teacher, Mr. Freeman, noticed she stopped talking, then paid close attention and saw how she was trying to communicate or tell her story since she did not know how to put it in words. You are on fire, Melinda, I can see it in your eyes. You are caught up in the meaning, in the subjectivity of the effect of commercialism on this holiday. This is wonderful,wonderful! Be the bird of the bird.

In contrast to Louie’s expectations of this new camp it was just like the others with little food, hard work, and constant violent beatings. These beatings continue until the Bird is

He expresses “Sadly, we all looked back at the bird. A scarlet ibis! How many miles it had traveled to die like this, in our yard, beneath the bleeding tree. Let’s finish lunch.” It states how the family was sad at first when the bird had died, but they didn’t really care about it.

Birds aren’t real, they are all spy drones, or at least according to the Birds Aren’t Real activists. In the year 1953, the government started the CIA and hired a man named Allen Dulles to take charge. The job Allen took on was to change surveillance so that it could be incredibly hard to detect, and it would have to be done in a creative way that had never been done before. Dulles challenged his staff members to come up with creative ways to hide cameras with the hope that a new way of surveillance would be discovered. This single event of Dulles taking the lead of the CIA was the same event that led to the devastation of 12 million birds being killed and replaced with spy drones.

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.

They admired each other’s adventurous personalities. As time went on Louie’s changing personality disturbed Cynthia. He would often stay out late and come home wasted. Drinking became a way of numbing the memories of his past experiences. Louie became obsessed with the idea of personally torturing and killing The Bird.

Today I will be writing about the similarities, differences, and opinion of the book and movie. The story is about a child that had been kidnaped by a group of Indians. The main characters were True son, Halfarrow, little crane, shenandoah, True Sons Indian father and his white parents. True son acts as if his white family wasn’t his family. The story ended with true son running off with his uncle’s slave.

visible in between two of this bird, it deserves a great live after losing everything it once had.” A few weeks later we visited the house and the bird was flying around the yard looking very happy and the owner said they had been taking very good care of it and that it was very healthy. BOTTOM BUN: While most would just walk by an ugly bird sitting on the ground all by itself, my mother felt compassion for the suffering bird and helped it advanced to its full capability. CONCLUSION/TRANSITION: As Odysseus showed compassion when he sees his old dog my mother did the same thing with me and a helpless baby bird and as she showed compassion I then realised how encouraging she was. TOPIC SENTENCE: John C. Maxwell has said, “A word of

At the bird’s appearance and apparent vocal articulation, he is at first impressed, then saddened. He compares this evening visitor as only another friend which will soon depart, just as “other friends have flown before” (58). But the raven again echoes quite aptly his one-word vocabulary, thus leading the man on to think more deeply about the possibilities that exist at this juncture. Somewhere deep inside him, he has realized that it doesn’t matter what question he poses, the bird will respond the same.

This man caused Louie to drink and to smoke, he became terrified to sleep due to the pain and the way he wanted so bad to get revenge. The Bird made Louie come extremely close to ruining his marriage and gave him an unsettling mindset from the thoughts of The Bird so intensely that he was scared he would injure someone in his sleep: “Louie was straddling Cynthia's chest, his hands locked around her neck. Through her closing throat, she was screaming. Louie was strangling his pregnant wife” (373). Louie was lucky, lucky he did not kill his wife, or hurt her, or kill his baby, he was lucky to have a wife as kind as Cynthia to stay by his side and not let him go. Luck once again was rushing through Louie’s life as Cynthia could’ve ended this marriage in a heartbeat, but instead took Louie to a preacher named Billy to retrieve him help so he would understand what wrong he is doing: “Cynthia stayed in the hall, listening to the neighbor. When she returned to the apartment, she told Louie that she wanted him to take her to hear Graham speak” (378). At the sound of God, Louie started to believe, he changed once more and went back to having a strong mind. A simple promise that Louie remembered to keep him strong and to keep him fighting to stay determined: “If you will save me, I will serve you forever” (382). Louie became a better man and from that moment

The birdcage symbolizes the Wright’s marriage. It is breaking and past the point of recovery. “ Looks as if someone must have been rough with it” (Glaspell 875). Minnie Wright represents the bird, who is trapped. She is trapped in this marriage where she is mistreated. Though, Mrs.Wright is not killed, but her spirit is. Due to the isolation and neglect, Mrs.Wright’s spirit is killed. David Galens summarizes this drama in his article “Trifles.” He mentions “Neither woman can recall whether she actually had a bird, but Mrs. Hale remembers that Minnie did have a beautiful singing voice when she was younger” (Galens). Mrs.Peters and Mrs.Hale find the dead bird with silk around the neck. Mrs. Peters is in shock: “Somebody—wrung—its—neck” (Glaspell 115). Mrs.Hale does not know the Wright’s well, so she says “ I s’pose maybe the cat got it” (Glaspell 875). Mrs.Peters knows the Wright’s did not have a cat; therefore, the cat is a metaphor to John Wright. This bird is valuable to Mrs.Wright, because it was her only company throughout the long days when her husband works. The loneliness without the bird called for revenge. Minnie is tired of the emotionally abusive man she married. Mrs.Wright wrings John’s neck and kills him for all the things he does to slowly kill

The character sketch of Mr. and Mrs. Wright in the novel “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell: Mr. Wright was a local farmer, he was known as a good man. Who never drink in his life, he used to keep his words and paid off his debts. He was married to Minnie Foster a lively girl 30 years before. Minnie foster was known to be a pretty girl, who had a great fondness with singing, used to dress in gleeful clothes and was a lively girl.

“James,” he says. We begin walking where there is a bundle of people and he looks concerned. “How about I send you to the sheriff’s station? They will surely help you out,” he says. “If it will help,” I say. The chirping of birds seems to follow me, it triggers a memory of home. When Mama and I would take short walks through the meadow behind our home. Whistling along with the bird's melody is what we did. Back then, I had no worries at all. Now, all I have is worries.

An idea that is expanded by Doris Lessing better demonstrates how “Flight” supports the characters in their courses of actions through their external and internal motivations. However, the means of reality and illusions within their ambitions that is in the short story is essential for the protagonist, the old man to progress as a character. Internal motivations that the short story supplies is impressions that include the old man capturing the “pretty, pretty, pretty” pigeons that were noted to be his favourite. In addition, the fact that Doris Lessing used extensive vocabulary and word choice to exhibit the “homing pigeons” resulted while using