People who make their own rules when they know the are right…. People who get a special pleasure out of doing something well (even if only for themselves)…people who know there’s more to this whole living thing than meets the eye: they will be with Jonathan Seagull all the way. Others may simply escape into a delightful adventure about freedom and flight.
This book, quite simply, is unique.
The reason for putting these lines of second cover of the book as a part of this review is quite simple. This small paragraph mentioned above is essential to understand this wonderful work by Richard Bach. One may simply go through it as a book and be happy that a seagull, after confronting all the odds bravely wins. But the purpose of this book doesn’t stop here, it goes far beyond than just a story of a seagull and his struggle.
It is plainly an account of those who stand for their conviction! It is a story of all of us who have belief in themselves, in their ideas. It is not without purpose that Richard Bach puts such a sentence as what is our body but our ideas. This story unfolds the whole journey with which only the brave can relate.
The progress that Jonathan Livingston Seagull passes through in this book is certainly the progress that we all wish to have. In the beginning he comes across as an Iconoclast, but with the passage of time he changes. This change, however, is for the better. He can now sympathize with those who couldn’t understand and hence couldn’t follow him. Towards the end of the story he becomes so nearly perfect that he starts working for the up-liftment and betterment of those who had once outcast him.
Thus, Richard Bach shows us the graph of a good life. The beautiful moments in the book are of the friendship between Jonathan and Sullivan, Jonathan and his teacher (mentor) Chiang’s relationship and of course Jonathan’s strong struggle as a child between old rigid rules and new free ideas.
Clearly this book shows the victory of ideas and ideals over idols and rigidity.
It was an enjoyable experience, reading this book. It will take barely two hours of you life but the impact will certainly last for EVER.
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