What Happened To Daphne Du Maurier's The Birds?

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Imagine if you were in a bird apocalypse, where these birds all of a sudden just became vicious and started attacking everyone. There has to be an explanation to it! In the story “The Birds,” by Daphne du Maurier, demonstrates this story to not only be a survival to the fittest, but also a horror because it is filled with lots of suspense. These birds went from innocent creatures to merciless killers. There are many different explanations to this bird apocalypse. Due to weather changes caused by the humans by pollution or because of the high tides. Lack of food and or because they hate humans, was the reason why they changed into killers and why they wanted to get rid of every human. First, in the story it says that one day the weather changed…show more content…
Once the weather changed, Nat notices that there are a lot more birds around than usual, and that they have been more aggressive. Birds may seem nice and innocent creatures but they can a lot of times they become a lot more aggressive and start attacking any thing or anybody. For example, like when they want want to protect their nests and their young babies, or when food is scarce, they tent to protect their food that they placed in a certain area, or like when there are predators that are trying to catch the birds. In this story the birds are most likely aggressive because the humans were trying to take their territory, What Nat and others assume at the beginning, before the bird attacks become too serious, is that the…show more content…
In the story it said that “The birds were murderous birds, who had succeeded in killing many people. In the story it also said “Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains.” This suggests that there has been some sort of evil or hatred for millions of years, of man that exists deep within birds and has only now found its full expression. In the story it talks about how the birds pecked Nat’s eyes and attacked him viciously, Nat also gets attacked again as a bird was jabbing his knuckles and grazing his skin, and they also mutilated his neighbors’ bodies. Nat and his family understood that the littler winged creatures assaulted initially, trailed by the bigger flying creatures. They were likewise exceptionally mindful of the day by day calendar managed by the fowls' assaults and utilized that attention further bolstering their good fortune and assembled nourishment, and different necessities when the feathered creatures exhibited generally little risk. They were trying to kill everybody and they did except for one
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