What is the them of the story His First Flight
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His First Flight by Liam O’ Flaherty is a story with the primary themes of having courage and self-confidence. It's is the tale of a baby seagull learning to fly.
The Themes Are:
Overcoming fears
The baby seagull is left on a ledge by his mother who sees he is too frightened to fly and get food. Eventually, hunger forces the seagull to find his wings and leave the ledge.
Be cruel to be kind
The mother won't help the baby as she knows he needs to work out how to live by himself - she's being cruel to be kind, withholding her assistance so that the baby can become independent and self-reliant.
You're more powerful than you know
The seagull surprises himself. He jumps off the ledge in desperation and finds he can fly!
It's because of the themes above that His First Flight has become popular reading in many school curriculums.
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Flaherty” is about a young seagull who is afraid to fly. All his younger siblings despite their much shorter wings flew fearlessly while he could not gather the courage to trust his own wings. The young seagull became sad when he saw his parents perfecting his younger siblings in the art of flying. His parents scold and taunt him for not even trying. They even call him a “coward”. They tell him a lot to at least try and also threaten him to leave him alone and hungry if he does not. The following day, he is left in isolation and upon feeling hungry; he tries to seek the attention of his family members. Only his mother, who is withering a fish in an attempt to eat it, notices his son.
The young seagull cries out of starvation hoping his mother would help. On seeing his mother come to him with the fish, he gets excited. But on noticing that his mother stopped mid-way, he gets maddened out of hunger and takes a dive at the fish, forgetting for a moment that he is afraid to fly. Finally, he took his first flight. All the family members celebrate his victory by cheering and dancing around him. He also attempts at floating in the sea that he was once afraid of. Thus, he overcomes his fear and realises that it is all in the mind.