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This story is about a seagull named Jonathan Livingston who loves practicing advanced flight techniques, unlike the other gulls who only use flight for utility purposes. Jonathan is exiled from his flock for being different. He later joins a new flock led by an elder gull named Chiang and masters advanced flight abilities like teleportation. Jonathan returns to teach his skills to other outcast gulls. Over time, more gulls join Jonathan's flock to learn about innovative flying techniques, starting a new era of flight. In the end, Jonathan ascends to an even higher existence, leaving Fletcher in charge of continuing his legacy.

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Richard Bach Jonathan Livingston Seagull Summary This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules...people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for themselves...people who know there's more to this living than meets the eye: theyll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than ever they dreamed. He struggles with being differenthe is sad to disappoint his parents. Jonathan Livingston Seagull is different from the other birds in his Flock. Most gulls only know the simplest facts of flight, and use flight as a utilitarian mode of transportation and as a way to get food. Jonathan, however, loves practicing airborne acrobatics and testing the limits of his speed and form.
He briefly considers trying hard to be just another member of the Flock. That night, when Jonathan rejoins his Flock up on the beach, he is called into the center of a Council meeting and singled out for Shame by the Elder Gull before being Outcast and banished to the distant Far Cliffs. After he experiences a breakthrough in flight, though, and successfully executes a complicated dive from a height of five thousand feet, he is more determined than ever to devote his life to studying flight.
Jonathan had hoped to share his new flight methods with the Flock. After many years pass, Jonathan has lived a long but solitary life. He wanted to and show them how different methods of flight would make it even easier to find fruitful food sources in the ocean, but resignedly accepts that he will be a loner for the rest of his life.
He was flanked in flight one evening by two gleaming gulls who invited him to ascend with them to a higher plane of existence. In his conversations with the Elder Gull of this new Flock, Chiang, Jonathan learns that there are ways to transcend even the physical limits of his body. In this new world, there are a handful of gulls who believe the same things Jonathan does, and long to perfect their innovative methods of flight. Jonathan trains with an instructor named Sullivan, who admires Jonathans skill, speed, and self-possession, and tells Jonathan he is the best pupil hes ever had.
He comes to realize that perfection comes from being present in the understanding that his true nature lives everywhere at once across space and time. As Jonathan learns more and more, he cannot stop thinking about the world he left behind on earthhe longs to return and teach the gulls the truths he has learned in this new realm. Eventually, Jonathan masters instantaneous teleportation, impressing even Chiang and becoming Chiangs special pupil.
Jonathan returns to earth and approaches a recently Outcast gull from his own Flock named Fletcher Lynd Seagulladmiring Fletchers flight, Jonathan offers to take Fletcher on as a pupil on the condition that one day they will return to their Flock and spread the things they have learned together. Fletcher agrees, and the two begin lessons. One day, Jonathan tells his students that the time has come to return to their Flock and share their knowledge. His students are doubtful, but agree nonetheless to follow him back to their old shore. After three months, Jonathan has amassed a small group of six special pupils, whom he trains in flight techniques and mental exercises to help them break the chains of their bodies.
The Flock shuns Jonathan and his pupils as they demonstrate their feats of flight over the water just beyond the shore, but slowly, some curious gulls from the Flock begin approaching Jonathan and his group and asking to learn to fly. And soon hundreds and hundreds of gulls gather every day to listen to Jonathans musings on the glory of freedom and the rituals, superstitions, and limitations that stand in the way of true freedom. Even the nervous Terrence Lowell Gull and the lame Kirk Maynard Gull exhibit bravery in joining Jonathans group.
Jonathan is soon rumored to be a Divine birdperhaps even the Son of the Great Gull himself, though Jonathan laments the fact that the others cannot simply see him as one of them. Jonathan tells Fletcher that it is time for him to ascend, and leave Fletcher behind to continue his legacy. After Fletcher crashes into a cliff and has a near-death experience, which he returns to life from, the others begin to hail Fletcher, too, as a Divine gull.
Fletcher begs Jonathan to stay. Fletcher, distraught but determined to carry on Jonathans teachings, assumes his new role as instructor of Jonathans old pupils. In the years following Jonathans departure from earth, Fletcher and his new Flock of pupils travel up and down the coastline, spreading their messages to new Flocks, and as more and more gulls take up Jonathans message, a golden age of flight and innovation commences. Jonathan begins to shimmer, and then ascends into the sky.
"READING THROUGH THE LENS OF STEAM" 2020-1-LT01-KA229-078054

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull Summary (1).pdf

  • 1. Richard Bach Jonathan Livingston Seagull Summary This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules...people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for themselves...people who know there's more to this living than meets the eye: theyll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than ever they dreamed. He struggles with being differenthe is sad to disappoint his parents. Jonathan Livingston Seagull is different from the other birds in his Flock. Most gulls only know the simplest facts of flight, and use flight as a utilitarian mode of transportation and as a way to get food. Jonathan, however, loves practicing airborne acrobatics and testing the limits of his speed and form.
  • 2. He briefly considers trying hard to be just another member of the Flock. That night, when Jonathan rejoins his Flock up on the beach, he is called into the center of a Council meeting and singled out for Shame by the Elder Gull before being Outcast and banished to the distant Far Cliffs. After he experiences a breakthrough in flight, though, and successfully executes a complicated dive from a height of five thousand feet, he is more determined than ever to devote his life to studying flight.
  • 3. Jonathan had hoped to share his new flight methods with the Flock. After many years pass, Jonathan has lived a long but solitary life. He wanted to and show them how different methods of flight would make it even easier to find fruitful food sources in the ocean, but resignedly accepts that he will be a loner for the rest of his life.
  • 4. He was flanked in flight one evening by two gleaming gulls who invited him to ascend with them to a higher plane of existence. In his conversations with the Elder Gull of this new Flock, Chiang, Jonathan learns that there are ways to transcend even the physical limits of his body. In this new world, there are a handful of gulls who believe the same things Jonathan does, and long to perfect their innovative methods of flight. Jonathan trains with an instructor named Sullivan, who admires Jonathans skill, speed, and self-possession, and tells Jonathan he is the best pupil hes ever had.
  • 5. He comes to realize that perfection comes from being present in the understanding that his true nature lives everywhere at once across space and time. As Jonathan learns more and more, he cannot stop thinking about the world he left behind on earthhe longs to return and teach the gulls the truths he has learned in this new realm. Eventually, Jonathan masters instantaneous teleportation, impressing even Chiang and becoming Chiangs special pupil.
  • 6. Jonathan returns to earth and approaches a recently Outcast gull from his own Flock named Fletcher Lynd Seagulladmiring Fletchers flight, Jonathan offers to take Fletcher on as a pupil on the condition that one day they will return to their Flock and spread the things they have learned together. Fletcher agrees, and the two begin lessons. One day, Jonathan tells his students that the time has come to return to their Flock and share their knowledge. His students are doubtful, but agree nonetheless to follow him back to their old shore. After three months, Jonathan has amassed a small group of six special pupils, whom he trains in flight techniques and mental exercises to help them break the chains of their bodies.
  • 7. The Flock shuns Jonathan and his pupils as they demonstrate their feats of flight over the water just beyond the shore, but slowly, some curious gulls from the Flock begin approaching Jonathan and his group and asking to learn to fly. And soon hundreds and hundreds of gulls gather every day to listen to Jonathans musings on the glory of freedom and the rituals, superstitions, and limitations that stand in the way of true freedom. Even the nervous Terrence Lowell Gull and the lame Kirk Maynard Gull exhibit bravery in joining Jonathans group.
  • 8. Jonathan is soon rumored to be a Divine birdperhaps even the Son of the Great Gull himself, though Jonathan laments the fact that the others cannot simply see him as one of them. Jonathan tells Fletcher that it is time for him to ascend, and leave Fletcher behind to continue his legacy. After Fletcher crashes into a cliff and has a near-death experience, which he returns to life from, the others begin to hail Fletcher, too, as a Divine gull.
  • 9. Fletcher begs Jonathan to stay. Fletcher, distraught but determined to carry on Jonathans teachings, assumes his new role as instructor of Jonathans old pupils. In the years following Jonathans departure from earth, Fletcher and his new Flock of pupils travel up and down the coastline, spreading their messages to new Flocks, and as more and more gulls take up Jonathans message, a golden age of flight and innovation commences. Jonathan begins to shimmer, and then ascends into the sky.
  • 10. "READING THROUGH THE LENS OF STEAM" 2020-1-LT01-KA229-078054