CBSE Class 8 Answered

Birds are often captured and put in cages for amusement our amusement. Exotic birds are sold at high prices to affluent people who parade them in expensive cages. If one had an ounce of empathy, it is easy to understand the plight of being confined to a small place for the rest of one’s life. Birds are social creatures that always move in flocks. On being isolated, they try to communicate with one another through loud calls. For writers and poets, birds are symbols of freedom. Being creatures that have such a strong sense of community and independence, life inside a cage is akin to death. They suffer from malnutrition and loneliness apart from the stress of being confined. People who sell caged birds in pet shops put them through extreme physical and psychological duress: their beaks taped together and their wings cut off. Even if they are confined in bejewelled cages and fed exquisite food, nothing can compare to the freedom they experience in the wild. There is nothing more inhuman than denying a creature its right to be free.