Jonathan Livingston the seagull

Jonathan Livingston the seagull is a metaphorical history written in 1970 by the American writer Richard Bach. A film was drawn from this history.

Summary

Jonathan, small a Seagull, is impassioned by the flight, always higher and more quickly. He always seeks to improve what he can do, while its entourage incites it to behave as any seagull which respects itself - and thus respects the others of its species: to take the airs to only nourish itself.

Jonathan must continue its search as a recluse; it is driven out of the clan. One day, it will make new meetings, and will preach the flight like a religion…

Philosophy

The message that Richard Bach wished to make pass would summarize in a sentence: Require freedom like a right, are what you want to be .

But this history of a hundred pages, appeared in 1970 pennies the original title of Jonathan Livingston Seagull , had a range much more important. Many trainers in personal Développement recommend its reading.

This type of Métaphore does not go without finding echo in nonconformism, thus in the current of thought preaching the search for individual identity. But what appears in a very clear way is a strong requirement of improvement which one finds in the philosophical course of that which leaves the cave, in the famous allegory of Book VII of the Republic , of Plato.

Other messages

  • Going beyond of oneself, tolerance, freedom.

  • We are free to be what we are, and of going where we want to go.
  • We are able to freely take our rise towards the sky, but, too often, we do not want it.
  • Here the gift which we can make, to help those which want to learn how, discover what they like to make, and this why they are made.
  • It is not a question to like hatred or the evil, but to endeavor to see what there is of good of each one of us, and to help to become aware of it.
  • “There is to better do in the life than to fight, with the back of the fishing vessels or in the refuse tips, for a poor wretch head of fish.”

The film

  • left film in 1973 - exit of the DVD in 2006

  • Actors (voice):
    • James Franciscus: Jonathan
    • Juliet Millets: The Girl
    • David Ladd: Fletcher
    • Hall Holbrook: The Elder
    • Dorothy McGuire : Mother
    • Richard Kerned: Father
    • Kelly Harmon: Kimmy
    • Philip Ahn : Chang

  • realizer: Hall Bartlett

  • special Effects

    • L.B. Abbott

  • Studio: Paramount

References

  • Jonathan Livingston the seagull , Richard Bach, EDI. I have Lu

  • : card-index on the film

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