JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL

 

JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL by Richard Bach

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PART 1:

1. What did Jonathan love more than anything else?

2. What did his father tell him to study? 

3. What was the “breakthrough” 

4. Why was Jonathan cast out of the flock? 

5. According to Jonathan, why is a gull’s life so short? 

6. Where did Jonathan go to at the end of part one? 

PART 2: 

1. Where is Jonathan now?

2. For the gulls in this new place, what is the most important thing in living?

3. How does Chiang define heaven 

4. According to Sullivan, why is Jonathan such a good student? 

5. Chiang has taught Jonathan to travel through ______ and ______. 

6. Jonathan’s next lesson is to learn the meaning of _______ and _______. 

7. What were Chiang’s last words to Jonathan? 

8. What did Jonathan decide to do at the end of part two? Why?

PART 3: 

1. Where did Jonathan’s new students come from? 

2. What did Jonathan decide it was time to do after only a month of teaching his students? 

3. What did the Elder order the flock to do? 

4. What was Kirk Maynard Gull’s problem? 

5. According to Jonathan, what is the only true law? 

6. What did Jonathan say is the price of being misunderstood? 

7. What do YOU think Jonathan meant when he said, “You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves.”?