Book Summary Night Flying Woman is a story about a young girl who had to make a lot of changes during her life. In the beginning of this story Oona(Ni-bo-wi-se-gwe) was a young child who observed from her elders. Her own story is reflected from the hardships she had to go through as a child and how she had to grow as a Native American Woman during the time in which they were being contained and assimilated.
I am reading Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight and I am on page 168. This book is about a top student who gets suspended one day. Her mom is shocked as she is never in trouble, but comes to pick her up and finds her beloved daughter dead. In this journal I will be questioning and predicting. One question would be why was she on the roof and how did she fall from the roof?
In the beginning of Chapter ¬15 of How To Read Literature Like A Professor, Thomas C. Foster first introduces the very known fact that humans cannot fly. So if a human is able to in a piece of literature, it belongs to the categories he lists later on. However, the categorization is an superficial analyzation of flying. He introduces the history of flying and how humans have strived to defied the laws of gravity forever. Foster analyzes Morrison’s Song of Solomon and explain how when Solomon flew off to Africa it is an act of returning “home” and “casting off the chains of slavery on one level”(Foster 92).
In elementary, she has a desire to fly and enjoys swinging on the swing set at school so she was determined to make a bigger jump, performing a somersault; yet, her teacher isn’t happy because another child gets hurt mimicking Birdie. She warns Birdie, “ Only birds can fly. It’s impossible for people to fly”, (165). In middle school, Birdie pushes the thoughts of flying and is more focused on the force of gravity; she joins gymnastics and appeals to a star gymnast, Yunhui whom Birdie studies every move; but, Yunhui has a tragic accident that leaves her paralyzed from the neck down.
The main character Zits in the novel “Flight” by Sherman Alexie, struggles with where he belongs in the world. He is trapped in a system of greed and trapped within himself by confusion and anger. Zits, as he calls himself, begins to have several jumps into other characters, where he is a part of the body and mind of these characters at different times in history. Each character that Zits inhabits lead him through a journey of life lessons and to his expansion of perspective and ideology. The most significant jumps are into the bodies of the little Indian boy, Jimmy the pilot, and his father.
The novel, Charles A. Lindbergh: Lone Eagle, is a biographical novel about the life of Charles and how he became a hero by flying over the Atlantic Ocean. It starts from the beginning of his life and talks about the success and hardship he had to face throughout his life. This book was written to show how being called a hero can have its negatives. The book shows how Charles struggled to accept the role as a hero and how he tarnished his figure to the public over time, and went into depression.
No matter what we do, there will always be consequences. In Sherman Alexie’s book, Flight, a fifteen year old half Native American boy named Zits struggles with many difficult topics, one of which is the theme of revenge. Zits travels through time and lives in different bodies to experience the world from different angles throughout the book. In one section of the book, Zits is in the body of a young Native American boy.
Waxen Wings is a story that talks about a main character named Birdie. Birdie’s life is not the ideal life, and it seems like she has failed at everything she has ever tried. This story really makes the reader feel bad for Birdie, and she is seen as the victim of the story. The tests that she goes through are things that would make most people give up, but she does not give up. That fact alone makes this story somewhat inspirational.
The dramatic thriller novel Fly Away, written by Kristin Hannah, starts off as a story about a pair of best friends torn apart from a heartbreaking disease, breast cancer. Tully, the main character, forces herself to keep a promise she made with her recently deceased friend Kate. The promise was to take care of Kate's depressed child after she died. Tully practically dropped everything to succeed at keeping this promise. Tully gets a bit shaken up when her mother, who left her as a child and didn't take care of her properly, reaches out to her.
The novel Flight, by Sherman Alexie, tells the story of a troubled Native American teen who gets defeated in life. Years of abuse take a toll on the life of Zits, Alexie's protagonist. But Zits is no average good human being. He’s an arsonist, a drunk, a runaway, and a fighter. He is amazingly flawed, but there's always hope for the hopeless.
(Skywoman Falling). This encourages me to develop my own narrative from well-known creation stories. Thus, Skywoman's creation story contributed to my growing comprehension of natural
If We Fear Something: What Causes the Personality Change in Bird and how those Changes Improved him in Celeste Ng ’s Our Missing Hearts It is very difficult for human beings to change, especially if it will disrupt their comfortable lives. I have friends who never achieve self discovery and never grow, they don't explore their fears or lose trust when it's right. In Celeste Ng's novel “Our Missing Hearts”, Bird's journey to find his mother is not only a physical journey but also a journey of self-discovery.
" In his suburban home, Icarus looks up at the ceiling light above him and imagines it to be the sun, lingering over him as Icarus flies with his son, Daedalus, over the ocean. However, Icarus can no longer fly, no matter the wings he builds, and resents his new life. Icarus "had thought himself a hero/had acted heroically,/[a]nd dreamt of his fall, the tragic fall of the hero" yet he never imagined how little negligible he would feel, and Icarus soon "wishes he had drowned" with his son,
Pay attention to the important things, because if not, they will have dreadful consequences. In the story "Icarus and Daedalus" by Josephine Preston. In this story, a very talented and very famous architect and his son are being held captive by the king of Crete. The architect, Daedalus, builds wings that can make people fly. Yet, the wings could not get too close to the sun or they would melt.
By confronting readers with uncomfortable truths and provocative ideas, the novel challenges them to reevaluate their assumptions and reconsider their perspectives on the world around them. In an era defined by rapid change and profound uncertainty, "The Flightless Sky" stands as a beacon of hope and inspiration, reminding us of the transformative potential of literature to illuminate the darkest corners of the human soul and inspire meaningful change in our lives and
