(Double Entry Journal)

Copy the portion in the story that helps you answer the following questions
as you listen and read the story of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Write your
reflections in the column to the right.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull Part 2

My Reflections

1. Where is Jonathan now?

So this is heaven, he thought, and he had to smile at
himself. It was hardly respectful to analyze heaven in
the very moment that one flies up to enter it.
2. For the gulls in this new place, what is the
most important thing in living?
For each of them, the most important thing in living was
to reach out and touch perfection in that which they
most loved to do, and that was to fly.
3. How does Chiang define heaven?
"No, Jonathan, there is no such place. Heaven is not a
place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect."
4. According to Sullivan, why is Jonathan such a
good student?
"But you, Jon," he said, "learned so much at one time
that you didn't have to go through a thousand lives to
reach this one."
5. Chiang has taught Jonathan to travel through
______ and ______.
The trick was to know that his true nature lived, as
perfect as an unwritten number, everywhere at once
across space and time.

Did he die???

Jonathan could probably

easily blend in with the new
group, knowing that they
think the same as him.

Could perfection include

doing the impossible?

Jonathan picks up things fast.

It didnt take him long to be
like the members of new
group.

The impossible could have

been possible all along as
long as there is heaven.

6. Jonathan's next lesson is to learn the meaning

of _______ and _______.
You will be ready to begin to fly up and know the
meaning of kindness and of love.
7. What were Chiang's last words to Jonathan?
"Jonathan," he said, and these were the last words that
he spoke, "keep working on love."

8. What did Jonathan decide to do at the end of

part two? Why?
"Then, Fletch," that bright creature said to him, and the
voice was very kind, "let's begin with Level Flight...."

Vocabulary Definitions:
faltered became unsteady
Squawking- refers to the sound that gulls make
Dazzled- Amazed by light

My Questions:
1. Why is Jonathan a one-in-a-million bird?
2. Considering the fact that heaven was referred to as
a state and Chiang said Forget about faith, could this
story have any atheistic reference?
3. What makes Jonathan truly unique from the rest of

Jonathan is full of passion

and enthusiasm, but could
kindness and love have been
missing in Jonathan?
If Chiang told him that he
needs to improve on love,
does that mean he didnt
show love that much?
Jonathan is now going to
share some values and
lessons he learned from the
past to other seagulls who
thought as he did. I just
know that the Breakfast
Flock will regret their
actions when they see
Jonathan and Fletch.

the newly-met birds?

4. What could possibly be the connection between
flying up to know the meaning of kindness and love?
5. Would the Breakfast Flock be convinced when they
see Jonathan and Fletchers skill?