4.2.1 Influences on Jonathan’s Achievements on Earth
This part is the beginning of the story where the author explains why Jonathan wants to learn and practice about flying. More than anything else,
Jonathan Livingston Seagull loves to fly. The reason is because he wants to know what he can and cannot do in the air Bach 14. This kind of thinking motivates
him to learn more about flying. It shows that his learning in perfection to know what he can and cannot do in the air makes him have higher achievements to
know and learn more than the simplest flight. Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight—
how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that
mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly Bach 14.
It shows that perfection that is to make the goodness of anything motivates Jonathan to improve his ability in flying. To make the goodness of anything in
Jonathan’s case is to make an excellence in flying; to improve and make his ability in flying performed well. Because of that he loves to fly. He wants to learn
more about flying. He has a higher goal in flying: to learn more about flying. He learns about flying at low speed, flying at high speed and other findings in flying.
His reason to know what he can and cannot do in the air becomes his motivation to perfect himself in flying. As Cronan states that reason becomes the key to man
and it is the result of human’s rationality. By this, man perfects himself 57. Jonathan’s learning in perfection to know what he can and cannot do in the
air motivates and makes him have innovative ability, strong spirit, and courage to never give up in learning how to fly at low speed, at high speed and other findings
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in flying as his successful higher achievements on earth. Those influences are explained below.
4.2.1.1 Jonathan’s Courage to Never Give Up
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