So are you asking us to actually pick a book for you? Cause if so The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and The Story of an Hour is good!
Answer:
a narrative is different from a persuasive text because the narrative combines story element related to a controlling idea to reveal a thought - provoking theme.
Story element are inter woven together to advance the plot.
He is referring to the bird as clumsy because "ungainly" is define as "awkward" or "clumsy" and "fowl" is another word for "bird"