Comment upon the motherly conduct in the story his first flight
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the mother , being fed up with the stubbornness of the seagull for not flying
brought scraps of fish near him as he was starving and knew that for the fish he would come and made him succeed in his first flight
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In the story His First Flight, the mother seagull is portrayed as a tough but motivating character. She understood that her little one needed a lot of motivation to achieve its goal of flying.
Initially, she tried threatening the young seagull in many ways but to no avail. Even as his parents and siblings flew high, he did not make any attempt other than flapping his wings. This is because he was afraid of falling down.
The mother gull realized that the need to fly would make the little one do so. She took a piece of fish and started approaching him. The hungry little seagull screamed in delight. But, the mother stopped just beyond his reach. In his eagerness to get the food, the young bird started diving. The mother rose a little higher and the little seagull fell down when trying to dive. Slowly, he urged himself to keep trying and made his first flight.
Thus, the mother motivated the young one to do what was expected of him, even if it meant that the latter had to fall down a few times. She knew very well that fear was the only thing in this world that actually had to be feared. So, she used food to arouse the little one’s need