Eve Bunting's Fly Away Home

Decent Essays
“Don’t stop trying Don’t! You can get out.” This is what the boy, Andrew says when the bird gets in the airport in the book “Fly Away Home” By: Eve Bunting. Andrew is hopeful for looking for a home. Andrew and his dad are hopeful for a home because the boy and the dad are both saving money and that the boy is always positive and hopeful.

The most important reason Andrew is hopeful and positive is because one sunny day a bird flew the airport door trying and trying to get out. Andrew was very worried for the bird. *The minute Andrew saw the bird he had the relief in his head that he was hopeful and positive. In addition, Andrew seemed way happier then he was ever before. For instance, Andrew whispered “Nothing made as happy as that bird”

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Nt1310 Unit 2 Assignment

    • 225 Words
    • 1 Pages

    1. No. 2. When you really think about it and you think of how people are when they are happy it all makes sense as to what he’s talking about. So when he’s talking about how your happiness on the outside is only 10 percent and that 90 percent is how your brain processes your world. Honestly you can be as happy as you want to be by choosing what to be happy about.…

    • 225 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Unbroken Case Study

    • 627 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Assignment 001- Unbroken Make a copy of this assignment, complete questions, and submit to Slate. 1. When Louie, Phil and Mac were on the raft, a key factor in their survival was optimism. All three men were young and able-bodied, veterans of the same training, experiencing the same hardships and traumas, yet Louie and Phil remained optimistic while Mac was hopeless, seemingly doomed by his pessimism.…

    • 627 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    I will fly now. Even though I know there is something between me and that place where I can be free of all of these feelings, I will fly. I will throw myself there again and again. Pretty bird. Bad bird.…

    • 1530 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Welcome to Me was released in 2015 in select theatres and on video demand. It follows a white woman named Alice Klieg, played by Kristen Wiig, after she wins eighty three million dollars in the California lottery. Unfortunately, Alice has Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) which leads to her blowing a larger portion of her winnings on a reality show based on her. The National Institute of Mental Health lists impulsivity in dangerous areas (such as unsafe sex, substance abuse, spending, etc) as a symptom of BPD and it is very evident through Alice’s actions. (Borderline Personality Disorder, n.d.)…

    • 678 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Broken Promises “Flying” is a short story by Alice Miller. It is about a girl named Allie Lester who has to choose whether keep her promise or break it and fly. The short story starts off with Allie, who is six years old at the time, hanging out with her older cousin Mack. Mack teaches her numerous amount of things when they spend time together, but this particular moment is more special than any time before. Mack shows Allie how to fly; it is such a pleasant and graceful experience.…

    • 1272 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Hopefulness and optimism is a characteristic adapted as a young child. Children endure a lot and absorb much more. Whether it be a language, a belief, or certain words in a language children should not say, they absorb…

    • 795 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The Path to Success People have different views and perceptions on how they think they could succeed in life. Some people think they need to force opportunities to come their way, while others think they should let the opportunities come on their own. Some are optimistic, and some are pessimistic. In the stories “My Name Is Asher Lev” by Aaron Posner and “The Sculptor” by Scott McCloud, we can see how that is true.…

    • 839 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “So I have worked hard./ not good enough”(28-29). After giving all her effort to excel in college to please her parents, she gives up. She decides the way out of all the criticism is to free herself. The way she describes freeing herself was by the use of imagery of a bird flying off an edge, her being the bird. “This air will not hold me, / the snow burdens my crippled wings,” (44-45).…

    • 769 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    This was meant as just a brief and simple example of how people think and see can affect what they think and see. Granted, seeing the positive side of things won’t always make people see and feel positive, because they’re human. They are bound to see and feel negative at some point, because of how our human brains are. However, it is possible to be positive a majority of the time, and be happy! Choosing to be positive is truly one way that how people see in this world makes them who they…

    • 1061 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The way we view situations in our lives has the power to determine their outcomes. Sometimes we think if only I had this in our lives, things would be different. We forget to be thankful for all we actually have being, and become oblivious to the fact others aren’t as fortune. The meaning of our life’s changes all the time when we discover new things about ourselves. Something for Andrew that has never changed is the relationships he forms with the people in his life.…

    • 782 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In the story “Fly Away Home” by Eve bunting the theme is never give up because, in the beginning Andrew says his number one rule is to not get noticed, in the middle Andrew carries people's luggage for 50 cents, and in the end Andrew's dad says he has to start school. This story is about a boy named Andrew who is poor, but lives at an airport with his dad. they try their best to get money for an apartment or home but they can not suffice. My first reason, that the theme is never give up is because in the beginning Andrew and his dad stated that their number one rule is not to get noticed.…

    • 326 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton writes about the need for freedom and so does “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou. In recap, the story writes about slaves who were stolen from Africa and brought to the South. The people that were taken had wings, but being that the ships to the south were so crowded they had to shed their wings to all fit on. Furthermore, they all forgot how to fly, forgetting they could fly all together. At the plantation there a had been on man, Toby, who remembered the magic of flying.…

    • 340 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Having a positive attitude can help a person both physically and mentally healthy. Without a positive mindset, ones could fall into depression and distress, which can become a great damage to your health. Another example would be the healing of Renate’s leg. Hanna believes in miracles from her Oma stories, so she believes that miracles will also happen to Renate. Hegi writes, “Already I felt a difference in her leg: the skin seemed warmer and didn’t look as pale anymore.…

    • 1025 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Girl Who Fell From The Sky “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free” – Ralph Ellison. In Heidi Durrow’s The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, the main character Rachel tries to discover who she is in order to have the freedom to define herself. Rachel is a young biracial girl with beautiful blue eyes who is suddenly forced to move to Portland, Oregon and live with her strict African-American grandmother.…

    • 1058 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Life Carries On In the short story “The Fly” by Katherine Mansfield, a wealthy empowered man is faced with the grief of his son six years after his passing. The boss is conveyed to be a demanding, strong business man but, when faced with the remembrance of his son, he instantly changes his tone, pursuing two sides to the boss. Mansfield’s “The Fly” illustrates the hardship of death by the innocent killing of a fly, which than demonstrates a sense of relief to carry on in life.…

    • 1051 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays