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Why Me?

Caw! Caw! In Evan Hunter’s screenplay, “The Birds,” Melanie Daniels

is being attacked by birds because she is a stranger to Bodega Bay.

This is because the birds do not start attacking until Melanie gets to Bodega Bay,

the birds target areas where Melanie is, and the birds attack people who Melanie

knows. To start with, the birds do not start attacking until Melanie gets to Bodega

Bay.

First of all, the birds attack Melanie Daniels because she is a stranger

to Bodega Bay, due to the fact that the birds do not attack until she goes there to

give Mitch his love birds. The birds realize Melanie is a stranger to the town right

soon as she enters Mitch’s house uninvited to surprise
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All in all, the birds attack Melanie because the

attacks start right when she gets to Bodega Bay. The birds also target areas where

Melanie visits. Second of all, birds attack places where Melanie goes. The birds are going

to go after her no matter where she goes, so she does not want to leave Mitch’s

house because if the birds attack, she will protect Lydia and Cathy.4 When the

birds attack through the chimney, Melanie, “Swings the broom, covered with

birds” (Hunter #28). Melanie believes that if she protects Lydia and Cathy

from the birds, then Lydia will approve of her son dating her. The birds

also attack the diner area where Melanie goes for safety. Melanie flees

out of the diner and goes to a phone booth for safety, “she slams the door shut.

Gulls are now beating at the glass all around her” (Hunter #24). Melanie knows

that if she opens the door of the phone booth, that the birds will attack her, so she

does not open it for the man for her own safety.11 Finally, the birds go after the

Bodega Bay School when Melanie picks up Cathy. The children run out of

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