Author’s Note: This Piece of writing is to show my understanding of inferences, on the reading rubric
“Let the hawk perch and let the eagle perch.” This is a quote used in the short story Dead Man’s Path. What do you think this quote means? When Obi was talking about this quote he was referring to the priest saying to him that a dead man does not need a path to walk on. When you think of a dead man, do you think of him walking on the surface of the earth?
When I first read the quote, I stopped to think about it. Why would he say “Let the hawk perch and let the eagle perch” if they are predators? Then I looked at it a different way after that. The path is called Dead Man’s path. Since both the eagle and the hawk are predators, that means that they would kill each other if it was necessary. But they both eat the same kinds of food they could kill each other, which would make it a “dead man.” Even though I don’t think that he was referring the quote to birds, it still makes sense knowing that they were living things on the earth.
Another way you could think about this quote would be that they are predators. You could be brave and open the path back up and see what happens. You would become predators with the people that want it open and you would be the person that wants the path to be closed. Obi could be referring to people but it just made more sense to use birds’ sense most people know that they are predators.
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