Summary
A boy who lived in a house with his dead parents which was moving by a machine that he made. He liked the girl who came with a bird every morning but the bird dies. He made his mind to make the bird move again(like his parents) but it makes the girl frightened, then he realizes that making the dead people or animal move again is not normal and a strange behavior. He buries his parents and live his live alone.
1. setting
Time:several years ago
Place:in a dark deep forest in the country side
3.conflict
Stanly vs himself
4.climax
When he noticed by the girl that the world he made up was fake and meaningless
5.symbol
machine...something we could make up or hide something
girl...love
parents...someone we could receive 100% love(such as Stanly's mom kissing his forehead before he goes to sleep)
the woods...place we could be free or hides our secret
6.irony
Stanly tried to make the girl happy by bringing back the sparrow back to life, but it ended up scaring her off.
7.theme
Being free from the world that he made up and unreal.