Jonathan Seagull by Richard Bach (Review by Avyay Skanda Udupa)

                                Topic: Fiction and Novella

                                 Age: 10- 17 years

Plot: The book tells the story of Jonathan Livingston

Seagull, a seagull who is bored with daily squabbles over food.

Seized by a passion for flight, he pushes himself and learns

everything he can about flying. His increasing unwillingness to

conform finally results in his expulsion from the flock. Now an

outcast, he continues to learn, becoming increasingly pleased

with his abilities while leading a peaceful and happy life.

One day Jonathan meets two gulls who take him to ;higher

plane of existence; in which there is no heaven, but a better

world found through perfection of knowledge. There he meets

another seagull who loves to fly. He discovers that his sheer

tenacity and desire to learn make him ;pretty well a one-in-a-

million bird.; In this new place, Jonathan befriends the wisest

gull, Chiang, who takes him beyond his previous self-education,

and teaches him how to move instantaneously to anywhere

else in the universe. The secret, Chiang says, is to begin by

knowing that you have already arrived.

But, unsatisfied with his new life, Jonathan returns to Earth to

find others like himself to tell them what he had learned and to

spread his love for flight. His mission is successful, and Jonathan

gathers around himself a flock of other gulls who have been

outlawed for not conforming. The first of his students, Fletcher

Lynd Seagull, ultimately becomes a teacher in his own right,

and Jonathan leaves to teach other flocks.

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