Narrate a story that you have read.

I read a fascinating book lately. It is entitled ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’. It is a short book written by an ex-pilot called Richard Bach. The book is half filled with illustrations of seagulls in various poses in flight and on the ground. It is such a short and interesting book that I read it completely in one seating of about two hours. Yet it left an impression that I will remember forever.

The story begins with a seagull named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Jonathan is not an average seagull. He is not content with fighting over scraps of food in order to survive. He wants to master flight to perfection. The flock does not approve of this craze of his and he is made an outcast and goes to live in the Far Cliffs. Here he can learn to fly as much as he wants to. He perfects everything that he can in this dimension. Then one day, when he is old, two gulls from another world come and escort him to their world.

In this world, all the gulls are idealistic like Jonathan. He joins them and comes under the personal tutelage of Master Chiang – a bird who has seen perfect flight. Jonathan is a fast learner and soon learns everything that Chiang has to teach. He reaches perfect flight. In this world perfect flight means being anywhere one pleases instantaneously — at the speed of thought. As soon as Jonathan masters everything, he has a yearning to go back to his original flock to teach them what he knows. He does so.

He meets Fletcher Lynn Seagull and a group of other outcasts and teaches them the secrets of flight. Naturally they meet with opposition from the elders again. But the fliers ignore them. Towards the end of the story, Fletcher smashes into a cliff and dies. Jonathan prings him back to life, proving that there is no death.the story ends with Jonathan going back, leaving Fletcher in charge of the new group.

Simple though the story seems, it is obvious that it is an allegory. The real story is about man’s wish to attain spiritual greatness instead of just running after material wealth. This allegory is visible, if we look for it, every step of the way. Indeed a fascinating story.

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