His First Flight
(by Liam O' Flaherty)
Summary
Characters:
1. The young seagull
2. Father seagull
3. Mother seagull
4. Brother and sister seagull
Place:
1. Plateau
2. Sea
3. Sky
Summary:
The story begins one day before, the young seagull was alone on the ledge of the plateau. His family left him alone the day before. Because he had a fear of flying in the sky. Somehow he had gone forward to take off but he stopped due to his fear. When he had seen under the plateau, there was a great expanse of sea, he had thought that his wings could never support to fly. So he came to his place and sit alone. The young seagull was comparing his wings to his brothers and little sister whose wings were shorter than his. While thinking his father and mother came around and called him to fly in the sky. And his mother was threatening him to fly, if not he should starve for food until he flew away. Even though he was not moving from his place. Throughout the day, the young seagull was watching his family members. His father and mother were teaching his brothers how to dive for fish and how to skim the waves. And his brother finally caught his first fish and eat it, due to this his parents were praising him. On the same side, they were teasing the young seagull for his cowardness.
The story moved to the present day, it was morning time, and the sunlight was fallen on the south side, which was exactly blazed on the ledge where the young seagull stayed. He didn't tolerate the sunlight due to his hunger. Pretending to be his family, he stepped forward at the ledge, standing on one leg and hiding the other leg under his feathers. Then he was closing his eyes and fantasised to fall asleep. But there was no response from their family side. So this attempt also failed. They were opposed to his plateau. His brothers and sister were sleeping, his father was preening the feathers and his mother tore the fish and scrapped on the rock. When he saw the food in his mother's beak, he cried (Ga ga ga ga) due to hunger. His mother was flying forward towards him along with the fish. So the young seagull was so happy. The mother seagull was so close to the young seagull but her beak was not touching the young seagull. She was just opposite to him, having fish in her mouth, but his wings were motionless. The young seagull was surprised, due to hunger, he was dived into the sky (without intention). Automatically his wings were spread outward and moved up and down. His feathers were cutting the air. Once he flapped his wings, he moved upwards and gave sounds Ga ga ga ga. His brothers and sister were rounding around him and encouraging him. His family was landing on the green side, he was very near to the sea and trying to stand on the surface of the sea but it wasn't. His leg sank into the sea. But it was trying to manage and finally, his body was floating on the sea. So his family was praising and offering dogfish to the young seagull. He made his first flight successfully.
Moral :
1. If we overcome our fear, we can achieve many things in our world.
The young seagull finally, overcome his fear, and ready to fly for his meals.
2. Obey to our parents.
The parents of this young seagull many time adviced him to fly, but he refused. Due to this, he was starving for food. After that, he was ready to fly, then he able to hunt many fishes as much as he needed. So if we follow our parents wishes, surely we will achieve a great things.
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