Samuel Smiles, a scottish author and governor, said, “Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.” Roland Smith wrote a great short story based on the topic of hope and determination. Roland Smith wrote a short story, “The Ghost Bird”. This story is about a girl named Hannah who teams up with Mr. Tanner to find the rare ivorybills that are on Mr. Tanner’s property and never gives up on hope to find them.The author uses characters personality traits and setting to convey the theme of even in the most difficult times, never lose hope. The author uses Hannah’s personality traits to show the theme of the story of never lose hope in the most difficult times. For example, the narrator, the speaker of the story, “Early the next morning, Hannah began looking for the ivorybills and quickly discovered what a daunting task finding the birds was going to be. It was no wonder Mr. Tanner has gotten confused. There were no vacancies in the birdhouses”(Smith 27). This …show more content…
Tanner’s property, to show the theme of never lose hope in the most difficult times. For Instance, the narrator, the speaker of the story, “ She was able to disregard the houses too small to hold ivorybills, but that still left hundreds of houses and thousands of holes drilled into the surrounding trees where birds has carved out homes of their own” (Smith 27). This quote reveals how the setting of Mr. Tanner’s property is used to show the theme because lots of places on his property are hard to get to for Hannah or Mr. Tanner. It tells us that any birds will make there own home in the house and it the wood and trees. This helps show the theme of the story because it tells us Hannah will never give up on finding the rare ivorybills and never losing hope on these birds. This evidence also shows the Hannah is more determined than Mr. Tanner on finding the rare birds. To conclude, setting helps show the theme of the