perfection in speed. Since Jonathan is a smart seagull, he learns faster from his daily ordinary experiences. A month goes by and now Jonathan can fly very fast in the air
Bach 60. According to Murphy 161-172, there are nine ways to analyze a character
in the story. Based on Jonathan’s thought, speech, the character as seen by another and direct comment, it can be concluded that Jonathan is a smart seagull.
3. Curious
As a young seagull, Jonathan is very curios of everything about flying. He always wants to know something new. He always wants to discover something
hidden. In his practicing, Jonathan tries every single movement of flight in the air. He always practices every day and every time he wants. He spends his day from
morning until night just to learn. One night, his curiousness is answered. He knows the key of flying high and fast like an eagle. Then, he starts practicing again. He
tries to fly higher than before. In the next a few minutes, he wonders how fast he is in the air, if he flies little bit higher than before. Therefore, he starts to close his
eyes. He flies in a hundred forty miles per hour. He is against the wind. Fortunately, the speed is under control. Being able to control his speed, Jonathan is eager to
know his ability if he flies from five thousand feed instead of two thousand feet Bach 25.
One day, Jonathan flies alone in the air because he is outcast. When Jonathan flies over the sea, he meets with two brilliant seagulls. They say to
Jonathan that there is a home, heaven, for outcasts. When he starts landing in the heaven for the outcast seagulls, he has a lot of questions. He is curious why there
are just few seagulls. He thinks that heaven must be full of gulls. There must be a flock of seagulls. Suddenly he feels so tired. He does not understand why he is so
tired. In his opinion, there is no tiredness in heaven. He was flying over a sea, toward a jagged shoreline. A very few seagulls
were working updrafts on the cliffs. Away of to the north, at the horizon itself, flew a few others. New sights, new thoughts, new questions. Why so
few gull? Heaven should be flocked with gulls And why am I so tired, all at once? Gulls in heaven are never supposed to be tired, or sleep Back 52.
Here, in his new home Jonathan learns many things from his instructors, Sullivan and Chiang. His curious is answered. In this place, they use telepathy to
talk to each other. In his new home, Jonathan sees how Chiang can disappear and appear again only in a flash, and even, and appears in the same millisecond at
Jonathan’s shoulder. He wonders of Chiang’s performance. In that moment, Jonathan forgets about heaven to which he asks his instructor. He is very curious to
know how Chiang can do that, and how far he can go Bach 58. A curious person always wants to know things heshe does not know. Heshe
always tries to discover something new. Furthermore, Jonathan is really eager to start flying as Chiang does. When Chiang says that he can start to learn right that
moment, Jonathan is very happy. His eyes show that. Therefore, he asks Chiang to teach him Bach 58. When Jonathan comes to Chiang and asks him, “Can you
teach me to fly like that?”, Jonathan is trembled to conquer another unknown. Then Chiang says to Jonathan that he can start learning as soon as possible as long as he
wants. It does not take much time for Jonathan to learn about flying. He is very happy because he will learn to fly soon. He says to Chiang, “I want to fly like that,”
and strange glowed in his eyes. “Tell me what to do.” Bach 58
Further, when Jonathan is able to fly like what Chiang does and after Chiang goes away to another place, Jonathan thinks about his past. Then he wonders if
there is a gull like him, who wants to break his limits, to discover the real meaning of flying Bach 61.
If he had known there just a tenth, just a hundredth, of what he knew here, how much more life would have meant He stood on the sand and fell to
wondering if there was a gull back there who might be struggling to break out of his limits, to see the meaning of flight beyond a way of travel to get
a breadcrumb from a rowboat Bach 61.
Based on Jonathan’s thought and his conversations with others, it can be concluded that Jonathan is curious. He always wants to know and discover
something hidden that he does not know.
4. Brave
