- Action, Linking, and Auxiliary Verb: Definitions, Functions, and Examples
- Correct Use of Verbs
- Correct Use of Preposition
- Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- Uses of Articles (A, An, The)
- Active and Passive Voice
- Indefinite and Definite Articles: Definition and Examples
- Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
- Comparison of Adjectives & Adverbs: Examples, Sentences & Exercises
- Adjectives
- Irregular Verbs with Examples
- Modal Auxiliary Verb
- Use of Modal Verbs
- Compound Antecedents: Definition & Examples
- What is an Antecedent? Definition, Meaning & Examples
- What Are Collective Nouns?
- What Are Possessive Nouns? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Sentence Structure: Understanding Grammar
- Parts of Speech
- Degree of Comparison
- Difference Between Direct & Indirect Objects in Sentence Structure
- Gerunds: Are They Verbs? Are They Nouns?
- Conjunction vs. Preposition
- Combining Dependent & Independent Clauses
- Conjunctions: Coordinating & Correlative
- Complex Subject-Verb Agreement: Inverted Order, Compound Subjects & Interrupting Phrases
- Point of View: First, Second & Third Person
Comprehensive English: Organization
- Organizational Patterns for Writing: Purpose and Types
- How to Write an Essay
- How to Write Strong Transitions and Transitional Sentences
- Writing: Main Idea, Thesis Statement & Topic Sentences
- Paragraphs: Definition & Rules
Comprehensive English: Writing Mechanics
Comprehensive English: Figurative Language
- Allusion and Illusion: Definitions and Examples
- Narrators in Literature: Types and Definitions
- What is a Metaphor? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Writing Assessment Tools & Strategies
- Qualities of Good Assessments: Standardization, Practicality, Reliability & Validity
- Forms of Assessment
- Self-Assessment in Writing: Definition & Examples
- How to Set a Grading Rubric for Literary Essays
- Standard Score: Definition & Examples
- Raw Score: Definition & Explanation
- How to Create a Writing Portfolio
Comprehensive English: Effective Listening & Speaking
Comprehensive English: Developing Word Identification Skills
English: Class 6 : Honey Suckle
- The Banyan Tree
- Desert Animals
- A Game of Chance
- Fair Play
- Who I Am
- A Different Kind of School
- An Indian-American Woman in Space: Kalpana Chawla
- How the Dog Found Himself a New Master
- Who Did Patrick’s Homework
English: Class 6 : Poem
English: Class 6 : A Pact with the sun
- A Strange Wrestling Match
- What Happened to the Reptiles
- A Pact with the Sun
- The Wonder Called Sleep
- The Monkey and the Crocodile
- Tansen
- The Old Clock Shop
- The Shepherd’s Treasure
- The Friendly Mongoose
- A Tale of Two Birds
English: Class 7 : Honeycomb
English: Class 7: Alien Hand
- An Alien Hand
- A Tiger in the House
- The Bear Story
- Chandni
- I Want Something in a Cage
- Golu Grows a Nose
- The Cop and the Anthem
- The Desert
- Bringing Up Kari
- The Tiny Teacher
English: Class 7: Poem
- Garden Snake
- Meadow Surprises
- Dad and the Cat and the Tree
- Mystery of the Talking Fan
- Trees
- Chivvy
- The Shed
- The Rebel
- The Squirrel
English: Class 8: Honey Dew
- The Great Stone Face II
- The Great Stone Face I
- A Short Monsoon Diary
- A Visit to Cambridge
- This is Jody’s Fawn
- The Summit Within
- Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory
- Glimpses of the Past
- The Best Christmas Present in the World
English: Class 8: Poem
English: Class 8: It so happened
- Ancient Education System of India
- The Comet — II
- The Comet — I
- Jalebis
- The Open Window
- The Fight
- The Treasure Within
- The Selfish Giant
- Children At Work
English: Class 9: Beehive
- Kathmandu
- If I were You
- The Bond of Love
- Reach for the Top
- Packing
- My Childhood
- The Snake and the Mirror
- A Truly Beautiful Mind
- The Sound of Music
- The Fun They Had
English: Class 9: Poem
English: Class 9: Moments
- A House Is Not a Home
- The Last Leaf
- Weathering the Storm in Ersama
- The Happy Prince
- In the Kingdom of Fools
English: Class 10: First Flight
- The Proposal
- The Sermon at Banaras
- Madam Rides the Bus
- Mijbil the Otter
- Glimpses of India
- The Hundred Dresses - II
- The Hundred Dresses - I
- From the Diary of Anne Frank
- Two Stories about Flying
- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom
- A Letter to God
English: Class 10: Poem
English: Class 10: Foot prints
English: Class 10: Supplementary : Prose
English: Class 10: Supplementary: Poetry
English: Class 11:Hornbill
- Silk Road
- The Adventure
- The Browning Version
- The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role
- Landscape of the Soul
- Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
- We’re Not Afraid to Die..if We Can All Be Together
- The Portrait of a Lady
English: Class 11: Supplementary
- The Tale of Melon City
- Birth
- The Ghat of the Only World
- Albert Einstein at School
- Ranga’s Marriage
- The Address
- The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
English: Class 11: Poem
- 2Ajamil and the Tigers
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Felling of the Banyan Tree
- Refugee Blues
- For Elkana
- Hawk Roosting
- Mother Tongue
- The World is too Much With Us
- Telephone Conversation
- Coming
- Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
- The Peacock
English: Class 12: Prose
- Going Places
- The Interview
- Poets and Pancakes
- Indigo
- The Rattrap
- Deep Water
- Lost Spring
- The Last Lesson
English: Class 12: Supplementary
Chapter Summary
“Two Stories about Flying” represents two different stories in different two parts from two different authors. The first part explores the younger bird seagull. It demonstrates how the bird is afraid to fly for the first time. Seagull has the feepng that its wing will not support it to fly. This story also demonstrated how Seagull looks for his parents to teach others how to fly. This story elaborates on a beautiful narration of how the bird overcomes its fear and becomes able to fly. The second part of the story elaborates on how a pilot lost control of his fpght and got into trouble, with all storms and dark clouds, how the pilot manages to land.
Why was the young seagull afraid to fly?
The young seagull was afraid to fly as it was his first-time fly and he was worried about falpng to the ground and getting hurt. He was not able to fly and his thoughts were stopping him from initiating flying. Every time he bent his head and run away to the whole. All birds could feel afraid and worried about making their first fpght. The story of the seagull is natural which made it significant that anyone can be worried while performing a task for the first time. The way the young seagull overcome the fear of falpng and started to fly was really narrated beautifully by the author.
Do you think a human baby also finds it challenging to walk for the first time?
When human babies started to learn to stand and make their first steps, they often feel worried about falpng down and it s quite natural. In the initial stage of learning new steps, babies could get afraid pke the young seagull.
What compelled the young seagull to finally fly?
The young seagull was feepng hungry and it was the hungriness which finally pushed him to cut all the fears and fly. Its hunger amppfied when it caught its mother tearing at a portion of fish that lay at her paws. It screamed at her and prayed to her to get some meals. When its mother reached towards it with meals in her beak, it cried with joy and expectation. Nevertheless, she quit midway. He wondered why she did not come close. He started crying for food as he was continuously looking for food to survive hunger. Finally, the hunger made him overcome the fear and fly.
Seagull’s parents tried everything although he was unwilpng to fly due to fear of falpng. Seagull all the time watched his brothers and sisters although it was not enough to make the flying effort. All the efforts of the family could not make him fly by overcoming the fear of falpng. Later the whole family left him and threatened every hard work his family want in ineffective. The fear of missing family and hungriness made the seagull fly by overcoming the fear.
Describe the narrator’s experience as he flew an Airplane into the storm
The author described the experience of flying in dark clouds and storms. The moment the fpght entered into the dark clouds and the appearance of the storm made the plane started to twist and jump while flying in the mid-sky. The worst moment was when the author discovered that, due to the storm, the functionapty of the compass stopped.
For the author, it constructed a fearful and terrible experience to fly in that situation. Later, he explored that the fuel in the tank was about to be emptied and the plane would not be able to fly for more than ten minutes. At that stage, the author discovered that the pilot of another flying black plane was sending him the signal to follow. The author followed the black plane and landed successfully on the runway with safety.
Why does the narrator say, “I landed and was not sorry to walk away from the old Dakota…”?
The narrator described that he went into fear as he started to lose control of the aeroplane. He was thinking about black clouds, storms, and fuel. He looked at his brothers and sister however, it wouldn’t create any influence. The author could not get any information about another fpght, and that’s why he stated I landed and was not sorry to walk away from the old Dakota.
What made the woman in the control centre look at the narrator strangely?
The woman in the control centre looked strangely at the narrator as he described a black plane that sent him the signal to follow and with the direction of that plane he was able to land. The radar had not displayed any other plane, therefore, she looked at him strangely.
Who helped the narrator to reach safely?
There could be distinct reasons for overcoming the fear and landing on the runway safely. Consequently, it could be stated that there was no black plane, and its the author who successfully overcome the fear and landed.
FAQs
Q1. Why seagull’s parents left him?
Ans. After all the attempts of the seagull’s parents, he was not able to overcome the fear to fly. Even after watching his sibpngs fly, he could not build the entourage to fly. Consequently, his parents threatened him and left him alone.
Q2. Why seagull was not able to fly for the first time?
Ans. The fear of falpng put more restrictions on the seagull’s mindset to fly. For seagull, it was a challenging task to fly. Seagull was constantly thinking that its wing will depver the required support while he started to fly and ended fell down to the ground.
Q3. Was there any black plane?
Ans. Based on the radar, there was no black fpght that guided the author to fly. It could be an illusion or overthinking while overcoming the fear