Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
A young mother finds a stunning and terrifying natural wonder in the Appalachian Mountains above her home. Can the long-held beliefs they have had for so many years hold true even when the world around her appears to be miraculously changed? Flight Behavior is an engrossing, current, and very human tale that addresses class, poverty, and climate change. Barbara Kingsolver investigates the truths we adhere to and the intricacies that lie underneath them in her most approachable book to date.
Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
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A metaphor for the narrative without simile: How a lady who was born into a world and had no control over it was affected by an uncommon incident, given the chance to leave it, and then struggled with the conflicting worldviews that were imposed upon her. It was the small, rural Appalachian town’s stupid, uninformed, simple, and religious perception and view of the world getting punched in the face by the informed, the inquisitive, scientific, unsteady, and uncertain outer world that is. Dellarobia, the 28-year-old protagonist who is married (to a dull man) and has young children, realizes that she is not a simple-minded girl but a sophisticated and curious being who must leave-if she, her soul, is to survive-take flight if she wants to.
The story of Flight Behavior had my eyes besting up with tears. I became sympathetic because of the family she had married into, the town’s stifling poverty, and the town’s lack of refinement…
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver was a lot of fun to read. The main theme of the book is the town’s complacency in the face of some grave warning signs. The butterflies that everyone wants to consider miraculous are obviously aberrant. The production of their wool is also hampered by the ongoing rain and flooding. Nevertheless, it is clear from Cub and Dellarobia that the residents of her community are actively in denial. In a biblical sense, Cub denies it by asserting that only God has control over the weather. The conversation between Ovid and Della leans more toward her choosing to ignore the warnings.
