David Pelayo 7 A 19 Jonathan Livingston Seagull

David Pelayo 7 A #19 Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Part 2 My Reflections 1. Where is Jonathan now? So this is heaven, he thought, and he had to smile at himself. It was hardly respectful to analyze heaven in the very moment that one flies up to enter it. Did he die? ? ? 2. For the gulls in this new place, what is the most important thing in living? Here were gulls who thought as he thought, For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do, and that was to fly. 3. How does Chiang define heaven? Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect. 2. Jonathan must’ve felt so happy to finally be with seagulls with the same ideology as he does. 3. For me Heaven is neither a place nor is it being perfect. For me it is a state of eternal happiness. 4. According to Sullivan, why is Jonathan such a good student? "But you, Jon, " he said, "learned so much at one time that you didn't have to go through a thousand lives to reach this one. " Jonathan must have been a seagull prodigy. Normal seagulls would take a thousand lives to learn what he learned in one life. 5. Chiang has taught Jonathan to travel through ______ and ______. "You can go to any place and to any time that you wish to go, " the Elder said. That would be so cool if I could do that. Instead of reading history books, you go back to that time in history. The possibilities are endless. 6. Jonathan's next lesson is to learn the meaning of _______ and _______. You will be ready to begin to fly up and know The meaning of kindness and love… Aren’t those two things two inexhaustible mysteries of life? the meaning of kindness and of love. " 7. What were Chiang's last words to Jonathan? "Jonathan, " he said, and these were the last words that he spoke, "keep working on love. " Those are very vague and general last words. If I was Jonathan, I wouldn’t know how to work on love without Chiang’s guidance.

8. What did Jonathan decide to do at the end of part two? Why? Sully I must go back Back must mean home, the place where he was, rejected, isolated unappreciated and called the Outcast. He went back to see and if ever there is one help a seagull like him, struggling to learn how to fly. Vocabulary Definitions: Faltered- to hesitate My Questions: 1. What color was the sky of the world Jonathan first teleported to? 2. How many stars did it have for a sun? 3. What is the complete name of Fletcher? 4. What was Fletcher’s first lesson? 5. Who taught Jonathan about Heaven? 1. Green 2. 2 3. Fletcher Lynd Seagull 4. Level Flight 5. Chiang