Rhiannon Puck's Short Story Under The Rice Moon

You do not know how someone feels until you have been in there shoes is the message Rhiannon Puck is trying to express in her short story Under the Rice Moon. In this excellent story a bird wants to freedom from the cage it was locked in and goes back and forth between owners who do not understand its desire to be free. That is until it finally comes into the hands of a sickly young girl who lets it fly under the rice moon. In this story the author protrays the characters and scenery so well that you almost feel like you are there and watching the whole thing fold out. Some of these characters can not understand the bird because, unlike the sick girl, they knew not of the feeling of being caged for they where free to go as they