Part 1 Summary The Breakfast Flock of 1,000 seagulls surrounds a fishing boat, but Jonathan Livingston Seagull ractices

flying slo!ly, a art from the others" #es ite fierce concentration, he stalls and falls, !hich for a seagull brings disgrace and dishonor" Jonathan, no ordinary bird, tries again" $ost gulls !ant to kno! no more about flight than ho! to get their food" %ven Jonathan&s arents are dismayed at his daily e' erimentation" (e !onders !hy he can stay in the air longer !ith less effort !hen he flies lo! over the water" $other asks !hy he cannot be like other gulls and leave lo! flying to elicans and albatross" )hy does he not eat* Jonathan is bone and feathers, but he does not mind" Jonathan climbs to 1,000 feet to begin a full o!er dive" %very time he fla s his""""" +So this is heaven,+ Jonathan smiles, noticing his body gro!ing as bright as his com anions& bodies" ,t feels like a gull body, but it flies far better than his old one ever has" #elighting in ressing o!er into his ne! !ings of olished silver, Jonathan sets a goal of attaining t!ice the s eed and erformance, but he is not disa ointed !hen the best he can reach is -./ m h" (e believes that heaven ought not to have natural limits, but he is not disa ointed" The escorts de art, !ishing him ha y landings" Jonathan flies to!ard a 0agged shoreline inhabited by so fe! gulls that he !onders again at heaven and !hy he suddenly feels tired" (e remembers the saying that gulls never tire in heaven" $emories of earth are fading, and details are blurring,""""" )atching young Fletcher, Jonathan sees a bla1ing desire to learn to fly" Fletcher asses his instructor at 120 m h, pulls into a si'teen3 oint vertical slo! roll, breaks u at thirteen and barely recovers" Jonathan e' lains that Fletcher needs to be smooth and runs through the maneuver !ith him" 4t the end of si' months, Jonathan attracts si' other students, all curious 5utcasts, !ho find erforming easier than theory" Jonathan lectures them on ho! recision flying is a ste to!ards e' ressing their true nature as ideas of the 6reat 6ull, but they fall aslee , e'hausted from ractice" 7ot even Fletcher believes the flight of ideas is as real as the flight of !ind and feather" ,n many !ays, he tells them that

Plot Summary Jonathan Livingston Seagull follo!s the adventures of a rebellious young seagull learning that there is more to life than filling one&s belly" (e learns to fly in !ays no gull ever has, and then he learns in heaven the meaning of life as erfection and unity !ith the 6reat 6ull beyond time and s ace" (e returns to %arth to teach this truth to !illing young gulls over the ob0ections of the stodgy gull establishment" Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a freethinking young gull, not content 0ust to fill his belly !ith scra s scavenged from the fishing boat like the rest of the Breakfast Flock" (e !ants to e' erience the freedom of flight en0oyed by other bird species" 5 osed by everyone, including his o!n family, Jonathan e' eriments, often disastrously, until he figures out the dynamics of flight and ractices"""""