Du Maurier tells us that Nat lives next to the sea where there is a wide, open space. The reason for her picking Cornwall as the setting is so that Nat is where he can see everything primarily, so that he can see everything at first hand. ... That night the birds find a way into the children's bedroom where they are attacked viciously and had Nat not stepped in, the children would have been killed by the birds. ... Nat is triumphant that other people apart from himself had noticed the change; he now knew that he was not on his own. ... He makes the whole family sleep in the kitchen wher...

• Word Count: 4431
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

Du Maurier tells us that Nat lives next to the sea where there is a wide, open space. The reason for her picking Cornwall as the setting is so that Nat is where he can see everything primarily, so that he can see everything at first hand. ... That night the birds find a way into the children's bedroom where they are attacked viciously and had Nat not stepped in, the children would have been killed by the birds. ... Nat is triumphant that other people apart from himself had noticed the change; he now knew that he was not on his own. ... He makes the whole family sleep in the kitchen wher...

• Word Count: 4405
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout his life, he drew on his experiences in the Pacific Northwest as settings for his stories. ... After briefly attending the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he moved to Sacramento, California, where he became a hospital custodian for three years. ... Nevertheless, he continued to write, publishing his last major collection, Where I'm Calling From, in 1988. ...

• Word Count: 11148
• Approx Pages: 45
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School