Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach audiobook short story in English subtitles paraphrase

welcome to the YouTube channel Bookworm today we will listen to a brief retelling of the next book Jonathan Livingston Siegel by Richard back part one a net with bait is thrown from a fishing vessel and A Flock of Seagulls flocks to get crumbs of food by cunning or Force only one seagull named Jonathan Livingston makes his training flights all alone Jonathan breaks all the unwritten laws of the flock hangs in the air flies low over the water and develops tremendous speed he tries to bring his ab

ility to fly to perfection Jonathan neglects the main occupation of Seagulls the extraction of food his parents are worried because of their son left feathers and bones having obeyed the persuasion Jonathan lives for a week like the rest of the seagulls but then he realizes the meaninglessness of such an existence and returns to training for the next week he learns to fly at high speed but nothing comes of it one day rapidly descending from a great height Jonathan hits the water hard and loses c

onsciousness when he regains Consciousness he hears a voice saying that Jonathan is just a seagull not born for high-speed flights he decides to accept and return to the flock but on the way home he finds a solution the speed can be controlled by reducing the length of the Wings forgetting about failure he trains and achieves success in the morning Jonathan accidentally crashes into the pack at breakfast but manages to control it during the day he manages to do several aerobatics in the evening

the next Council of a flock gathers the Elder tells Jonathan to come to the middle of the circle formed by the seagulls it is either the greatest disgrace or the greatest honor he expects praise because he succeeded in something that not a single seagull had done before him however the Elder sentences Jonathan to banishment to the far Cliffs for violating the dignity and customs of the goal family the seagull spends the rest of its days alone every day he learns something new and learns to use h

is skills to get food he does not yearn for the pack and lives a long happy life part two Jonathan is getting old one day two shining Snow White goals appear near his wings which can fly no worse than he does the seagulls say that Jonathan is from their pack and call him home Rising above the clouds Jonathan also becomes Snow White and radiant he enters another world and decides that this is heaven a paradise for seagulls Jonathan begins to forget about his past life the flock also lives here al

l birds train tirelessly their goal is to achieve Perfection Mentor Snow White goal Sullivan says that birds like Jonathan are a rare exception usually seagulls move to another world almost unchanged so each next world is a little different from the previous one to become like Jonathan ordinary seagulls have to go through tens of thousands of Worlds and live tens of thousands of Lies the Elder of the flock explains to Jonathan that this world is not heaven at all but Heaven is not a place and no

t a time this is the achievement of perfection Jonathan will get closer to perfection when he learns to fly at the speed of thought the oldest already knows how and Jonathan asks to teach him after a while Jonathan realizes that he was created perfect and his possibilities are endless he instantly moves to a planet with two sons now Jonathan is learning to travel through time the day comes when the feathers of the Elder begin to shine even more dazzling he disappears after telling Jonathan try t

o understand what love is soon Jonathan begins to reminisce about his old pack it seems to him that a seagull could appear there deciding to break out of the shackles of its nature perhaps the seagull was also expelled Jonathan wants more and more to return to Earth in vain Sullivan dissuades him One Fine Day Jonathan returns home and finds Fletcher Siegel who has been sentenced to Exile he becomes Jonathan's first student part three fletcherland is eager to fly and becomes a near-perfect studen

t by the end of the third month Jonathan had six more students all six Exiles fascinated by a strange new idea to fly for the joy of flying in the evenings Jonathan tries to teach them the idea of comprehensive freedom but the students exhausted from the day fall asleep without listening to the teacher a month later Jonathan decides to return to the pack although the students are against it they fly after the mentor the Elder orders the Exiles to be ignored for some time Jonathan sees only the g

ray backs of his fellow tribesmen but does not attach any importance to this he continues to teach over time the students begin to listen to Jonathan more attentively and at night they are surrounded by Young gulls from the flock they are also interested in listening to the mentor a month after returning the Youth of the pack begin to move on to Jonathan one of the seagulls Kirk Maynard has a broken wing but wants to fly and asks Jonathan for help Jonathan tells him you are free and nothing can

stop you Kirk spreads his wings and takes to the skies in front of the astonished flock students begin to consider the mentor of God a week later Misfortune occurs Fletcher loses control and crashes into a granite rock at high speed already in another world Jonathan catches up with him and offers a choice stay at this level or return home Fletcher is back seeing that he is not dead the flock decides that Jonathan is either the devil or the son of the great Gull after this incident Fletcher Maste

rs instantaneous movements Jonathan soon decides that the pack no longer needs him he instructs Fletcher keep searching for yourself try it every day to get one step closer to the genuine Almighty Fletcher he is her mentor Jonathan's body then begins to Glow with a ghostly light he melts Into Thin Air and Fletcher begins training the green recruits foreign [Music]