jonathan livingston seagull

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“Jonathan
Livingstone Seagull” is a contemporary fairytale that relies on modern
time themes. Unlike the traditional fairytales where you have mythical
creatures here you have fictional creatures.

It’s not only a modern fairytale but also an allegorical story
because the whole plot points out to something more that the story
appears to be telling. Because of that, we could say that we have a
combination of an allegorical story and a modern fairytale.

By writing a story about a seagull that was never satisfied with
something average but always wanted to accomplish something more Richard
Bach actually wrote about human life and the way a single person
functions inside a community.

The time and place are not specified but it is generalized that the place is the sea and the shore and that it is present time.

Richard Bach went with short and simple sentences and the plot was
also like that. A lot of different storytelling techniques are combined
here such as inner monolog, dialogue, monolog, description, and
storytelling. Richard focuses on what is important to the plot and he
does notcomplicat4e everything with details.