Analysis Of 'BRED IN CAPATIVITY' By Joanna Harris

Everyone can turn uncertain circumstances and frightening situations into their comfort zone by putting in an appropriate effort. It’s not fixed that the current “you” are who you forever will be and that your identity issues cannot be resolved.

From having “BRED IN CAPATIVITY” (p.2, l.6) to having “wings fluttering, ready to fly away” (p. 6, l. 185). This is an example of how the author of the short story, Joanna Harris, describes the narrator’s escape from her social solitude. The short story revolves around personal development and seclusion. Harris applies a first person point of view to the story’s narrator with the intention of giving the reader a unique perspective. A perspective from which you get insight into how having difficulties

Small and drab-looking in its cage, it huddled in a corner, barely moving (…) Its eyes were all age and sadness. (…) I saw it every morning in my own bathroom mirror.” (l.4 p.2) In this extract, Harris uses the narrator’s thought of this particular bird in its cage as a picture of how she finds Mr Tamaoki’s appearance and how she thinks of herself. Without making use of straight and directly describing words, the narrator informs us that the guy, from the apartment opposite of hers, seems rather dismal and dull and behaves distinctly modestly – he doesn’t want to interact excessively with others. Additionally, the reader is apprised that the narrator feels the same way about herself by the use of the bathroom mirror as

The uncommunicative and withdrawn narrator has now finally escaped from her own delusion of the idea that solitude is what makes you the happiest.

“It [the tea, red] was good; soporific somehow. I felt as if I would sleep well after drinking it; perhaps better than I had ever done before.” Indubitably, no green tea has any soporific or sleep-inducing effect. The calm and tranquillity, she suddenly feels, must originate from the peace and freedom she has obtained and the social anxiety she has disposed of.

Getting used to not taking the challenge of interacting with others can make your everyday life feel as if you were a bird trapped in a cage. This is seen in the short story “Tea with the birds,” where the protagonist, who is full of opportunities, lives a life with minimum social intercourse to such degree that she takes joy in being alone since the alternative apparently would be too much of an objection. Joanna Harris attains writing a short story that gives the reader a good sense of what is going on the inside of an imaginative and lonely girl’s