The Birds are out

When looking at the last page it points out that everyone is a bird. The black people in the story are one bird the white people a different bird and lastly the mixed race people a different bird. This points out that people were seeing each other as what they looked like on the outside whether than what is on the inside. People would just watch what each other would do instead of asking or wondering why they were doing what they were doing. Some people were different birds though all together in my mind whether they were black or white or whatever because they would be the people to discover why a bird looks the way it does and getting to know it better over just appearance and action. One character in the story that would be like this is Laronne because she accepted Nella, Rachel, and Robbie into her life and even told the apartment superintendent that they were family. The other character that is completely different is Rachel due to the fact she stops seeing everyone just as black, white or inbetween when she starts relating the blues to her life.
Rachel is the swan that is seen at the end of the story for a few different reasons. The first one is because swans are seen as beautiful and through out the story Rachel is described as being pretty or beautiful by many different people. The next reason she is the swan that takes a little while to start flying is because Rachel takes awhile to start seeing the positive side of things and not seeing just black and white anymore. The way Rachel even describes the specific swan as being awkward points out how Rachel was different from everyone else as being both white and black. There were swans who flew away when the nickel hits the water and there are birds that stay. This swan was both for a little bit by not exactly flying away as fast as everyone else, but instead is described as running on the water for a little bit. This shows how Rachel is both white and black. Next when the bird is flying now it is the beauty that is seen in Rachel.
Kevin Ostempowski Post 2