Fly Away Home
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In FLY AWAY HOME, 13-year-old Amy must go live with her father Tom (Jeff Daniels), whom she barely knows, in a new country after her mother is killed in a car crash. Amy does not want to be comforted, and wanders silently through the marshes near her new home. When developers illegally mow down the marsh, killing a goose, Amy finds the eggs she left behind, and begins to resolve her loss by mothering the goslings. Since she is the first thing they see when they hatch, they "imprint" her, and think of her as their mother, following her everywhere, even into the shower. The local authorities insist that their wings be clipped, since without their mother they can't learn to migrate and will cause problems for the community when they try to fly. But Amy and her father won't allow the geese to be impaired. Tom and Amy work together to teach the geese how to fly, and then migrate. As they work together, Amy finds a way to begin to heal her loss of her mother and her relationship with Tom.
The opening crash occurs in New Zealand, where Amy Alden (Anna Paquin) and her mother live. Amy's mother dies in the accident, and the thirteen-year old is forced to move to Ontario, Canada, where her father, Thomas (Jeff Daniels), has a home. Thomas, a sculptor and wilderness conservation activist, doesn't understand his daughter, and his earnest attempts to get close to her are rebuffed. When asked why he didn't visit her more often when she was younger, he says that New Zealand is a long way off. Her response to that: "That's a lame excuse, Dad." And, of course, it is.
While Thomas is busy with his work, Amy plays mother to 16 goose eggs that she finds abandoned in their nest. After constructing a makeshift incubator, Amy awaits the big moment. One day, when she comes home from school, a brood of newly-hatched birds are waiting to greet her. The story then shifts to the question of how Amy, recognized by the geese as their mother, can teach them certain basic necessities of survival -- namely, how to fly and migrate. Thomas comes up with the answer: instruct Amy to pilot an ultra-light plane, then accompany her in his own craft on a 600-mile, 4-day aerial flight to North Carolina, with the geese tagging along behind.
This tender and uplifting fable from director Carroll Ballard (The Black Stallion) is about adorable geese, but also about environment, growing up, and rites of passage. After 13-year old Amy (Anna Paquin) is sent to live with her father (Jeff Daniels) in Canada, she must create a new home for herself in a foreign place. When she rescues a bunch of geese eggs about to be bulldozed by a developer, she becomes a mother of sorts to the birds and finds a way out of her grief and into a new life. Rated PG.
This beautiful song offers lyrics about exploring the world and life experiences while staying connected with where you came from and knowing you can always return home. It provides a fresh angle for a graduation song and also works beautifully as a poignant memorial song, where "fly away home" has a different meaning. Perform with the accompaniment MP3 or add the optional string parts for a live orchestra. Help your students rehearse with the part-dominant MP3 practice tracks, available in a multi-user bundle to share with your whole choir.
Doing what her heart dictates, the young girl brings the eggs home and attempts to incubate them in a dresser drawer. A few days later, a gaggle of goslings are eagerly following in her every footstep. Realizing she is the only mother they know, Amy takes on her new role and does her best to care for the fluffy grey chicks. But when they exchange their down for feathers, the novice mom acknowledges she will need some extra expertise if she is to teach her gangly family how to fly and eventually migrate.
To open the book is to get an insight into a counterculture that most of us don't even know exists. The matter of fact narrative by the boy tells us a story of coping with misfortune and homelessness. There is no preaching here, neither does the author/narrator offer a simplistic solution. There is hope here, however. The boy has watched a sparrow trapped inside the airport for days slip out of an open door at the right moment and "Fly away home." We and the boy hope he and his father, as well as the other homeless people in this book, find their opportunity to do the same.
The parallel between the sparrow and the boy's family is not difficult symbolism but some children may have to be helped to see it.The boy says "Not to be noticed is to look like nobody at all." Children should be helped to see what that statement means in all its implications. Activities Rereading the book with an eye toward what the various people in this book value and how their values compare with those of the children in your class is a worthwhile activity. These people may be homeless but they are not valueless. Help the children see how they are coping with this difficult situation without hurting anybody. They have not turned to crime in order to get a place to live. The father goes off to a part time job. They are constantly looking for a way out: an apartment they can afford, better paying work. They are staying clean, washing up with full flights of people in the washrooms. The boy's father is insisting that, when it comes time, the boy will go to school even though he's not sure how he will manage it. There is compassion toward others in the book and real friendships between some of the homeless people.With older children, a little research is in order here. Why aren't the boy and his father being helped? What about welfare? Surely they deserve it. Have the students find out about the eligibility for receiving welfare in your area and see if the boy and his father would qualify. Where would the checks be sent?Speaking of your area, what's available for the homeless in your area? What alternatives do they have? Is there someone from a homeless shelter in your town who could talk with your class?The subject is too awful and too big to be used in a frivolous way. Let the children zero in on things they can do to bring attention to the homeless in their area and to help in very real ways. They can organize food drives, help at a soup kitchen, donate warm clothing, and write letters to newspapers, politicians and government officials. Real work and real awareness are in order here. The book is a powerful one but we should not let it leave children with overwhelming fears about losing their homes or with feeling hopeless about their ability to help.(Continued Below)
Grades 1 - 5It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw by Don Tate. Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. Nonfiction Picture Book. 32 pages.Find this book: Local Bookstore, Amazon, B&NTaylor was 85 and homeless when he first discovered his love of drawing. Using scraps of paper and anything else he could find he drew powerful scenes from his years as a child in slavery and the years that followed. This title goes across many areas of the curriculum; occupations, art and artists, African American history, slavery, reconstruction, aging and biographies. An introduction and afterword expand on the information offered in the story. Grades 3 - 9It's Our World Too: Young People Who Are Making a Difference: How They Do It--How You Can, Too! by Phillip Hoose. Nonfiction. 176 pages.Find this book: Local Bookstore, Amazon, B&NSo much of the news of young people in our society is sad that it was fun to read It's Our World Too. I thought by the cover that these were all young adults but the chapter that moved me most was about a class of first and second graders in Sweden who bought a rain forest. The writing is personal, emotional and so skillful that the young people cited here seem real and not too good to be true. Their projects were/are worthwhile, possible to emulate, and inspiring. This is a book to hand to students and teachers who are reading about the environment, the homeless, the handicapped and the disenfranchised and are feeling overwhelmed and hopeless about any and all of these problems. Read More.(Continued Below)
Fly Away Home formed part of a spate of pictures from the mid-1990s focusing on unlikely connections between troubled children and imperilled wildlife, the template for which was provided by the 1993 hit Free Willy. Here, the plight of the titular whale, abducted from the wild and held captive in a tiny pool in an amusement park, is echoed in the domestic trials of young hero Jesse (Jason James Ritchter), a juvenile delinquent struggling to come to terms with his mother's abandoning him, and to life with his long-suffering foster parents (Jayne Atkinson and Michael Madsen). The unruly child and disobedient whale bond, it's implied, through an intuitive sense of mutual displacement. At the end of the film, when Willy is returned to the ocean, so too has Jesse been restored to his own rightful place - not with his biological mother, as he had long hoped, but with his foster parents, whom Jesse now accepts as having filled the void left by his mother. The final line of the film, spoken by Jesse's adoptive parents, is "Let's go home", reinforcing the idea that Jesse's reinstatement to a family unit has been the end-goal of our journey all along. His acceptance of his foster parents, meanwhile, demonstrates that he has embraced change over a regression into the reassurances of childhood and is on route to becoming an adult, with his ability to part ways with his beloved whale signifying the final stage of his progression from alienated street kid to confident and responsible young man (albeit one rebellious enough to bust an orca from an aquarium). Therein lay the paradox of such pictures - they thrived on the charm and the spectacle of their human-animal interactions, yet the ultimate signifier of the child's growth typically came in their recognition that the animal was better off with its own kind in the wild. It was definitely a more sensitive rite of passage than that of old school Disney kid-and-their-animal pics like The Yearling (1946) and Old Yeller (1957), where the protagonist would demonstrate their emerging maturity by killing their four-legged companion, not least because it pointed to a world where humans and animals could co-exist, if not necessarily in close proximity. Other films within this category included the aforementioned Andre, Born To Be Wild (1995), Alaska (1996) and, in a handy intersection of the decade's eco-sensitivity and nostalgia for mid-century television, a cinematic reboot of Flipper (1996). To say nothing of the sequels and TV spin-off spawned by Free Willy (conveniently, Willy and Jesse had a habit of bumping into one another). It (1990) director Tommy Lee Wallace even tried his hand at the genre on the small screen, with a kinda-sorta sequel to the 1966 classic Born Free, Born Free: A New Adventure (1996). In this regard, Fly Away Home might be regarded as something of a formula picture. The basic elements are certainly all there - an alienated young protagonist from a broken or troubled home, a dislocated animal who provides the opportunity for healing and, above all, an emphasis on the need of the animal in question to remain wild and free, through which it doubled as a sort of totem to the newly-liberated spirits of its human cohorts. David Ingram, in Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema, likewise identifies Daniels' character as part of "a trend towards a more sensitive, less brutally macho type" of male hero in environmentalist pictures, while acknowledging that this often served as "an ideological ruse" to convey more conservative messages about the ascendancy of patriarchal power. (p.38) I suppose you can accuse Fly Away Home of both adhering to and inverting that trend. On the one hand, it centres heavily on a withdrawn father rediscovering and embracing his patriarchal prowess, after his erstwhile slackness on the matter caused his family to disintegrate. But it also diverges from tradition as it nears its conclusion, in suggesting that it is qualities gained more implicitly from her mother's influence that have enabled Amy to get as far as she has. 59ce067264
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