Sandpiper

We read the story Sandpiper by Adhaf Soueif, the task we had to solved is to mention the relations between the story and a bird also called Sandpiper, we could finde 4 relations and these are the following ones:
The first one is that the sandpiper is a type of bird that lives near the coasts and the place where the story is located is near the coasts. Secondly the bird got narrow wing, this is a metaphor to show that she couldn`t go away form africa, in other words she could not "fly" as long as she want as a bird, so she was stacked in that place for her daugther. The third reason is that this type of bird is not colorful at all, it has 3 colors and are white, black and dark orange, so there are opaque colors, is another metaphor with the girl mention in the story, she is a girl with a dull personality or boring. And the last connection with the story is that this birds are hybridise, they can have relation with other animals and this is clearly shown in the story she was inglish woman married with an african man, two different races together.