After reading “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”
Even though this book is very famous among people, it was my first time ever read it, and I am glad that I did. “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” has a simple plot line that in this story, a seagull is learning to fly. However, it has more meaning than this simple plot tells you. While learning how to fly, the seagull actually learns about “lif
Jonathan Livingston is a very ordinary seagull. But Jonathan has a different idea from the regular seagull. In other words, he rejected the life of the most ordinary seagull and mastered the art of flying. Jonathan also had to act like other seagulls in his parents' appeal. But Jonathan wasn't able to do it properly. I thought it was a very pointless act. Before long, Jonathan started practicing
seagull.
An ashtray.
A stub.
A Taunus.
Eight times eight?
Sixty-one.
- Seventy-two.
A woman.
- You make jokes, thats good.
Never give up, even if
youve lost your memory.
Life goes on, not back wards.
Youd be in trouble if it did.
Ho w much do you remember?
I was on a train.
It was dark outside.
- And be fore that?
Its all b lack. - Your childhood?
Not a sound, just a gloomy night.
- Your name? Yo
for you, Trev.
[Clicks tongue]
[Sighs]
[Telephone ringing
in distance]
[Sighs]
[Seagulls crying]
[Air horn blows]
[Vehicle approaches]
[Telephone ringing
in distance]
[Air hissing]
[Flies buzzing]
[Water dripping slowly]
[Sewing machines whirring]
[Flies buzzing]
[Dripping continues]
I can see
into your soul.
Hey...
% of all headaches are due
to low blood-sugar levels, Trev.
Yeah.
Grab yours
Seagull)
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※ 앞의 줄거리
갈매기 리빙스턴은 더 잘 날기 위해 연습하는 갈매기다. 그러나 먹이를 먹기 위해 나는 다른 갈매기들은 그런 리빙스턴을 이해하지 못한다. 그래서 다른 갈매기들과 어울리지 못하고, 심지어 부모님에게 핀잔을 받고 홀로 나는 연습을 하고 있었다.
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