Freddie the Flybutter Once upon a time, there was a cute little caterpillar. His name was Freddie and he had lots of friends. One friend was Morton the worm and the other was Bogart the bee. Freddie spent his time eating leaves and playing and sleeping. Freddie slept on a twig in a big tree. Freddie and his friend Morton the worm played hide and seek in the meadows. One day, a big bird sitting in a tree saw Freddie and decided he would make a tasty treat, so the bird grabbed Freddie. “OW” yelled Freddie. This big bird isn’t going to eat me for dinner!” Freddie grabbed the big bird by the leg and bit him as hard as he could. “Ouch” yelled the big bird and he dropped Freddie and few off high into the tree. Freddie ran away as fast …show more content…
So they walked to small hill in the meadow. Freddie flapped his wings and ran to the edge of the hill. All his friends were below cheering him on. To Freddie’s surprise, he started to fly. He flew… And flew… And even flew upside down. “This is wonderful” he thought. “I can fly!” Bogart caught up with him and they flew around together over the trees and meadows. “I’m getting hungry, Bogart. What do Flybutters eat” asked Freddie. “Butterflys” corrected Bogart, “Eat pollen from the flowers.” “Ick” said Freddie. Freddie spotted a beautiful flower and flew down to it. “NO! not that one Freddie” said Bogart. “Those flowers close up when the sun goes down” But it was too late, Freddie landed in the middle of the flower and it snapped shut! Bogart laughed and laughed. “Silly Freddie, you have a lot to learn.” The next day, Freddie saw Morton the worm and said, “Hi Morton, let’s play hide and seek.” So Freddie went to hide and Morton closed his eyes. When he opened them, he saw Freddie’s wings sticking up from behind a big rock. “It’s not going to work, Freddie, you can’t hide very well with those big things sticking up,” said Morton. Everywhere Freddie hid, his big beautiful wings gave him
John, Sadie’s brother, sped down the stairs and when he sat in his chair he began to inhale his eggs. “Where are your manners John?” Sadie said eating a forkful of eggs. “Blehhhh” John said sticking out his tongue revealing his chewed up food. Pa walked in and slammed the door.
You are lucky, Little Bird, for you have wings. But you must learn to master them. Look at the baron’s hawk there on her perch. Just because she doesn’t flap her wings all the time doesn’t mean she can’t fly. ”(Cushman 83).
As the operation had finally hit a halt, the larva of the warble fly represented the weakness of evil within the world. Even though we may all have evil built within us, we can all stand a chance to make a change. Selzer’s intentions in presenting such graphic details was to let the readers make a prediction on what that operation resembled within the real
From reading this, I wondered how bees could change someone’s life and for it to spin in a “whole new orbit”. The quote is also important to the novel as a whole, especially the second part of the passage. I also wondered who sent the bees and why? As a reader, I had to look back and re-evaluate the quote, and to be able answer the questions I had when first starting the novel. Then, I also realized throughout the book that the bees were used as foreshadowing.
In his pom entitled “Evening Hawk”, Robert Penn Warren characterizes human nature by a transition between the flight of the hawk during the day and that of the bat, or the “Evening Hawk” during the night. The hawk, as it soars in daylight, portrays how humans appear in clear light of their peers, while the bat, cruising the night sky, symbolizes what humans hide within themselves. Warren effectively expresses the meaning of this poem and its serious mood by the use of diction and imagery to appeal to the reader’s perception of sight and sound. Throughout the first part of the poem, Warren describes the journey of the hawk in the daytime to symbolize how one’s character may seem to other beings.
The wind started to blow faster and faster. I tried to resist but there was nothing I can do, for I was only a helpless Airborne Fluff. We were cotton-like seeds that flew around and were controlled by the wind. We are like tiny clouds that floated around and humans liked to squeeze us with their sweaty palms. “Ahh!”
The peacocks become a central point of the narrator’s life. The narrator describes the appearance and attitude of these grand birds in great
In the story, “on Birds, Bird Watching and Jazz” by Ellison, the interesting theory as to how Charles Porter Jr. got his nickname as “Bird “ is told using humor in his stories along with a careful choice of syntax and his diction. In the first paragraph, the author uses alliteration,”...and despite the crabbed and constricted character…” to give us an insight on the figure he is speaking about. The author also chooses these words to build up an impression and then breaks it by saying Parker was a most intensive melodist. In the second paragraph of this story, Ellison establishes what a nickname does and how it would originate. Continuing on, Ellison introduces a new fact to the audience, that jazzmen were labeled as cats because they were legends.
The wings folded suddenly to its body. It dropped like a stone. (66) This quote makes the reader anxious as they wonder if the bird’s attack will be a successful one. Three hours to go, and while they
“There had been no years between the ducking of this dragonfly and the other one--the one that was part of memory. I looked at the boy, who was silently watching his fly, and it was my hands that held his rod, my eyes watching. I felt
This was until Louie noticed a bird flying, got an idea, and slowly inched his hand closer and closer to the bird. All in one go, Louie closed his hand, and while the bird is pecking he closed his hand and then snapped the bird 's neck. In order to get the meat from the bird, Louie
The men of the group, much like John in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” consider themselves more capable than the women and refuse to consider Mrs. Wright as anything other than irrational. The men leave the women to their “trifles” on the first floor, where they discover a broken bird cage, and the bird’s body, broken, carefully wrapped in a small, decorative box. They realize that Mr. Wright had wrung the neck of his wife’s beloved bird and broken its cage. Mrs. Wright, once known for her cheerfulness and beautiful singing, she stopped singing when she encountered Mr. Wright. Just like he did with the bird, Mr. Wright choked the life out of his wife until, finally, Mrs. Wright literally choked the life out of her husband.
As the men were upstair investigating the murder scene, the three ladies were rummaging through the kitchen when they found a broken bird cage. Then, while looking at Mrs. Wright’s quilt she was making, they decided to bring her some cloth and her sewing basket to get her mind off of things. However, when they were going through her sewing basket to get what she would need, they found a dead canary strangled the exact same way Mr. Wright had. The ladies decided to keep this information to themselves.
The crab, without a doubt, traded his bread and took the magic seed and planted it. At once it grew up very tall, and became a banana tree so high one had to look up at it. The tree was full of bananas but the starfish could not climb the tree. So Clinton asked the orangutan to climb up and get the bananas for him. Luna got up on a branch of the tree and began to eat all the bananas.
Every jay in the whole lot put his eye to the hole and delivered a more chuckle-headed opinion about the mystery than the jay that went there before him"(Twain 3). This quote shows how the problem was worked through different ways by many blue jays working