Summary
Stanley Pickle is a boy who lives with his clockwork parents. They are dead but Stanley fixed them so that they could live again like a normal person. One day a girl who he has a crush on was devastated by the death of her friend, little black bird. He thought fixing the bird like his parents would make her happy but in contrast, it made her scared that she ran away. He finally made his mind to burry his dead parents and leave his house to start a whole new chapter of his life.
Setting
1990s, Countryside in a rural area
Conflict
Stanley vs himself
Climax
When the girl got scared at the little black bird that Stanley brought back to life and ran away
Symbol
machine: Imaginary thought that everything could be fixed even it has died/broke
Irony
Stanley wanted to make the girl happy since she means to him a lot but instead he only made her scared and she didn't receive his feeling
Theme
What happens in life has a meaning and you cannot pretend like it never happened. You should overcome the event no matter how hard it is to do so, and use it to grow through that experience.
