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Red Crested Night Heron
The Red Crested Night Heron in the short story, “Night calls” by Lisa Fugard, symbolizes the dad’s depression and sadness for the loss of his wife. The start of the story explains how Marlene, her dad, and her mom lived in a happy sanctuary for animals. The county graciously granted to the family, a beautiful and endangered, Red Crested Night Heron, to keep in their sanctuary. Sadly the mom, died in a car crash and Marlene's father completely shut down and sent her off to boarding school. When Marlene comes back every year the bird is in worse condition and the fathers depression doesn't get much better. One day Marlene sees her father going into the Red Crested Night Heron’s cage and taking the bird into the woods. Marlene is taking a walk
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