Eagle Metaphor - 1607 Words

Material is a story about a young mans search to find his inner self. Michael Byers, also the protagonist in the short story, writes a story filled with different accounts of a summer he spent on a fish processor barge in order to relate his struggle to overcome issues that have plagued him as a writer and as person in general. Foremost, Byers worked on the barge to make money for college. A second underlying reason that Byers works on the barge is to find material to ignite his writing. During the time he spends on the barge he grows as a writer, but more importantly as a man. His uncles, which help him find the job for the summer, are men that Byers looks upon with admiration, describing them as massively, thrilling competent people†¦show more content†¦He saw them as men who took on a tough mans job. He states in the story that he made mental notes while on the airplane ride to Alaska of the type of men that were aboard the airplane with him. They were men that had rough, manly build to them. From the beginning of the story one gets a sense that Michael is not one of these men. He makes it a point to point out that he was completely opposite of these men. The differences that Michael observed not only included the size and look of these men, rather it also included the personality types that these men had about them. They were not ordinary men, as an ordinary man does not work in the cold waters of Alaska in an extremely dangerous job such as Artic fishing. It takes a man with courage. The first step that Michael took to attain the courage that he talks about later in life was actually working on the barge that summer. His wife and friend could not even belief that he actually worked on the barge. When he told the story, his wife joked that she did not really believe that Michael Byers, the same lanky Michael Byers, had actually worked on a barge. The eagle metaphor shows the process that Michael had to go through in order to fulfill his real quest that summer, not entirely his monetary needs, but the need to find courage to break away from his parents. The eagle sat in Dennys arms without fighting back. An eagle is an animal that is known to have a fierce and upfront personality.Show MoreRelatedHow Music Has Influenced The World980 Words   |  4 Pages1970s music industry transitioned the rebelliousness of the 1960s to the jubilant musical compositions of the 1980s. The American recording industry in the 1970s was a coalescence of many genres, most predominately disco, funk, and classic rock. The Eagles were classified as classic rock, which was expanded over the preceding decade. One of their top hits Hotel California, verbalizes a very subtle message, that many misinterpret the meaning of. 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