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Analysis on Irregular Flight In Kent Nelson 's Irregular Flight, he introduces multiple meanings to “irregular flight.” Literally, when the story refers to irregular flight, it is talking about how a Cook 's Petrel bird flies an irregular flight pattern. In actual context, he also implies an irregular pattern between the two individuals that are searching for this bird, however, it not clearly stated and that is one mistake of a couple that this author makes. Nelson uses many standard writing techniques that try to grab the attention of the reader, however, they create a sense of confusion and do not necessarily compliment the story as whole in the end. When Nelson introduces the main character as being an unnamed male and the second character as a female named Clair, the reader can reasonably infer that there is some sort of awkward relation between the two. It is not until the end that the reader learns that Clair is in fact in love with man, however, the large problem posed is that at the beginning of the story, Clair told the man that she is married. It could be inferred that Clair had lied to the man about how she was married just to grab his attention. Before that she tells him that her 'husband ' was not actually transferred, she just wanted to make up a reason to leave her current job. From this it can reasonably be inferred that Clair does make information up either to just create a reason to get away or impress others. The last thing that is stated to possibly be made up is the question if the bird they were looking for was even there. The story is left at a major cliff-hanger, which is more than likely a technique Nelson uses to grab attention up until the last few words of the story. Throughout the story, the man questions why Clair never ask about his personal life, and really all he knew was that Clair was married. Here the author does a fairly good job at hiding how the man does quite possibly have feelings for her, and even when


Cited: Nelson, Kent. “Irregular Flight.” Literature and the Environment: A Reader on Nature and Culture. Ed. Lorraine Anderson, Scott Slovic, and John P. O 'Grady. 2nd ed. Boston: Pearson, 2013. 8-15. Print. “VU Cook 's Petrel Pterodroma cookii.” BirdLife International. QPQ Software Ltd. n.d. Web. 18 Sept. 2013. .

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