My reading homework 18/5/10

  STORY : The Buzzard, The Bat, and the Bumblebee  pages 1-10    35min 

 

 If you put a buzzard in a pen six or eight feet square and entirely open at the top the bird in spite of his ability to fly will be an absolute prisoner.The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of ten or twelve feet. Without space to run, as is his habit he won't even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top. The ordinary bat that flies around at night a remarkable nimble creature in the air can't take off from a level place. If it is place on the floor or flat ground all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt painfully until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a flash.A Bumblebee if drop into an open tumbler will be there until it die unless it is take out. It never sees the mean of escape at the top but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides near the bottom. It will seek a way where none exists, until it completely destroys itself.In many ways there are lot of people like the buzzard the bat and the bee. They are struggling about with all their problem and frustrations not realizing that the answer is right there above them.