For example, “staring motionlessly toward the Gulf” (621), just like the couple. The uniqueness of the cranes is observed when they are compared to other birds. The author states, “They towered above the bobbing egrets and scurrying plovers” (621). This description of the cranes symbolizes the uniqueness of the couple’s relationship, filled with love and lasting forever into the sunset beyond their death. The couple in the writing is able to remain humorous and show their love to each other.
John James Audubon and Annie Dillard both wrote short passages describing large flocks of birds using vivid imagery and descriptive diction to convey the effect that the flocks had on them as an observer. Both passages have an awed and laudatory tone since the writers seem to be enchanted by the beauty o the birds. While Audubon gives a literal description of what he saw, Dillard describes the birds through the extensive use of figurative language. The descriptive diction in both passages serves to give the reader a mental image of what the writer saw as the birds flew by. Audubon uses phrases like “countless multitudes” and “immense legions” to describe the large amount of birds that he watched fill the sky.
In many cultures and mythologies, a phoenix is a long-living bird that closely relates to the sun. It represents the sun dying every night but is always restored life/reborn the next morning. Hints of Phoenix Jackson’s age are suggested throughout the story. Phoenix’s eyes are said to be “blue with age” (Welty). Also, the author describes Phoenix’s skin as having “a pattern all its own of numberless branching wrinkles as though a whole little tree stood in the middle of her forehead…” (Welty).
Birds Essay John James Audubon, author of Ornithological Biographies, conveys his outlook on a flock of birds that surrounds him overhead; in comparison, Annie Dillard, author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, intimates her deepest thoughts on this wonder. In light of this, each author dissimilarly conveys an intense affection for birds; Audubon asserts a scientific and objective approach, whereas Dillard provides a more spiritual and less objective perspective. Although both authors love birds, their viewpoints differ on a magnified level. Taking a scientific approach on the subject, Audubon views the sky as “filled with pigeons... the light of noonday was obscured as by an eclipse...” (16-17). Providing figurative language, Audubon compares the darkness of a group of pigeons to a rare scientific phenomenon that only an intellectual might consider.
Perry thru out the novel had this recurring dream about a yellow bird. Perry’s dream is first mentioned at the beginning of the novel when Perry mentioned his fantasy of him in a Las Vegas night club singing a self-composed song about parrots, “Every April flights of parrots, Fly overhead, red and green, Green and tangerine. I see them fly, I hear them high, Singing parrots bringing April spring…”(p.16) Dick felt the song was stupid, but Perry felt that Dick was pragmatic, yet Perry also mentioned that Dick’s literalness, “was the primary reason Perry had been attracted to him, for it made Dick seem, compared to himself, so authentically tough, invulnerable.”(p.16) Later Perry described the dream he had about the yellow bird in great detail. In Perry’s dream, Perry was trying to collect a bushel of diamonds in the trees, but there was a snake that guarded the diamonds. Even with the snake guarding the diamonds Perry was determined to get the diamonds.
JOURNEY TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD: SECRET IDENTITY HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE WORD WONDERSTRUCK? IF SO, HOW DID YOU FEEL? GLAD? IF YOU WILL ASK ME, I FEEL ENCHANTED TO MEET SOMEONE LIKE HIM...AS WE START MY STORY; LET’S GO BACK TO WHERE I STARTED. I WAS A GIRL WHO DREAMED ABOUT BEING FREE FROM WHO REALLY I AM...LOOK AT THOSE BIRDS FLYING, ARENT THEY WONDERFUL?
Chopin’s use of birds In Kate Chopin`s novel The Awakening, she often utilizes the various images of birds. Chopin begins the story with two birds a green and yellow parrot, and a persistent mocking bird. Both birds can symbolize ideas about the story from their description and their characteristics. In the beginning of the story the parrot says; Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en!
Eiseley also uses rhetorical devices like ethos in order to convey the emotions that a bird has. He describes the bird to "have been soaring restlessly above us for untold hours" to wait for her mate. He appeal to the emotion of sympathy for the bird as she tirelessly soar and wait for the captured. This shows that the birds have emotion and real connection for each other unlike anything a machine can have. Rhetorical devices like ethos and juxtaposition are used throughout Eiseley's passage to convince the reader that birds and machines are truly different.
The Innocence of the Mockingbird The symbolism of the mockingbird has a strong impact on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. It is said throughout the novel that “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee,90). Mockingbird’s are some of the most gentle, and heartfelt birds, they do not “eat up people’s gardens, [and] don’t nest in corncribs” (Lee,90). Their innocence is proven by singing charming music for all of Maycomb, they are deeply adored and respected by Maycomb’s people. But they are not the only gentle and caring creatures in Maycomb, Atticus Finch, Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson are all agreeable representation of what is it to be a mockingbird.
Over time this becomes a routine forcing my soul to scream in desperation for air. I tend to close my eyes and day dream about a quiet and peaceful river with beautiful birds flying around me. As a child my father would take the family on road trips around Colombia excluding Cano Cristales, a paradise inside a natural park in the state of Meta, because it was part of the “red zone” where the guerrilla took over. Spending nine years of my life in a town where people vacation becomes suffocating. Life seems surreal with fake smiles and repetitive conversations.