The+Birds-Summary

 __**Birds Summary:**__

"//The birds//" is a story about a man's struggle against nature to keep his family safe. Nat Hocken is married and has 2 kids, he works 3 days a week on a farm doing light jobs. During his lunch break he likes to watch the birds in the field and water. Although one day everything changes...he doesn't see the birds, and everything goes downhill fast. That night a bird knocks at his window repeatedly, and when it stops he hears his kids screaming, only to find out that they are being attacked by dozens of birds. When he finally gets the birds out of his kids' room he sees that about fifty of them are lying dead on the floor. When he tells the people he works with about it, they don't believe him. Later that day though, he hears an announcement on the radio about how there were complaints of people being attacked by birds. Still nobody took these complaints seriously. They started giving out warnings about staying inside and keeping away from the birds. People still disregarded them, and thought that the whole thing was silly. The Hocken's, however, had experienced the wrath of the birds before and therefore they took cover. They boarded up the windows, doors, and chimneys. Each time the birds attacked, the attacks got worse. When Nat and his family finally felt it was safe enough to leave the house, they found out that their neighbor and his family were dead. It finally sat in, to Nat, that this was serious. Throughout the rest of the story the Hocken's battle against the birds continues. However the end of the Birds, isn't really an end at all...it ends with Nat smokeing a cigarette waiting for the bird's next asault on his house.