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Melanie’s Experience in Bodega Bay
Tweet Tweet! Caw Caw!! In the movie, “Birds”, by Alfred Hitchcock, the birds are attacking because Melanie Daniel’s location defines when and where the birds attack. The birds begin acting strange upon her arrival, and there are behavior changes at her stay. When leaving Bodega Bay, the birds become normal again.
The birds first develops nascence and start attacking Melanie Daniels when she first arrives at Bodega Bay. Before she arrives to the small town, Melanie acts saccharine to Mitch because she thinks he appears handsome and poses as a pet shop employee.1 After dropping Love Birds off at Mitch Brenner’s house, the narcissist sets the birds down on a table, and quietly and unnoticeably leaves. She completes this so she surprises Mitch and Cathy, his dainty little sister, for the girl’s birthday.3 When returning to the boat, “…a bird attacks her head. The attack leaves a small cut on her forehead” so the laceration is easily treated after (Hunter 11). The seagull unexplainably attacks Melanie, which appears as the first bird attack to exist in Bodega Bay. When Melanie debates to go to Cathy’s birthday party, she decides to finally go. Melanie acts reluctant to attend Cathy’s birthday party because she does not want to intrude the party, she knows Lydia seems jealous, therefore does not want to abase her, and the only reason to go is to be with the man she met recently, Mitch.5 When Melanie finally goes, Cathy aims to hit a piñata when “A bird becomes aggressive and flies into Cathy while she is blindfolded” (Hunter 26). When Melanie decides to go to the party, she and Mitch talk and see seagulls coming towards the children, so she facilitates them and brings them to safety. One day, Lydia decides to visit her friend, Dan. When Lydia Brenner decides to visit Dan, “…she proceeds into the kitchen, and notices chipped tea cups, and proceeds into the house. She walks down the hallway and looks into Dan’s bedroom. She sees a

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