Papa's Parrot

Imagine missing your son who used to look up to you, visit your candy shop everyday, but now he doesn’t. He leaves you left mumbling “Where’s Harry, miss him.” Also, the only way that Harry found this out is because Papa’s parrot told him when Mr. Tillian had a heart attack and was in the hospital. Although this story may not sound good, it leaves you shivering in your seat wanting to read more. This comedy “Papa’s Parrot” by Cynthia Rylant with this staggering parrot, one of the main symbols in this story teaches a very valuable lesson.
Unless you think a happy ending is a irony I am positive this story is a comedy. By just reading the beginning of this story, you can already tell it is a realistic, happy world which already gears into the direction of a comedy. After the normalcy in the beginning of this story every comedy must have a conflict arise, which in this story it happens to be that Harry does not come and visit the father, Mr. Tillian anymore, now any father would be sad about this. To make this case even worse Mr. Tillian has a heart attack so it is now up to Harry to do everything in the shop. This starts off as not be such a good thing for Harry, but it did make him realize the conflict when the bird says “Where’s Harry, miss him.” Where is this bird getting this fr4om you ask? The bird is a parrot, which we all know repeat what people say a lot, so that means the father must mumble that to himself a lot. Harry, now knowing of this conflict goes to visit his father in the hospital which is the conflict resolution. After that everything goes back to normal as a normal father and son relationship. The parrot really helped out in this story, and he also helped as a symbol along with many others placed in here for a reason.
One of the major symbols in this story is, you would’ve never guessed, the parrot. There are many purposes of the symbolism of the parrot in this story. Even though the parrot is not a person, Mr. Tillian got the parrot to somewhat replace Harry. Despite the father and son bond in the beginning and end, they never really bonded that much and I think the dad just wanted to be like two bears who huddle together for warmth, not necessarily actually huddle together for warmth more like being close to each others heart. The parrot was also a symbol that really made Harry realize what he was doing to his father. Although he never physically hurt him, in the middle of the story it was like him ripping his heart out and not giving it back until the end. The symbolism really tied this story together along with the lesson you really get from this story.
I really learned a lot from this story, and the main lesson that I learned is that no matter how old you get your parents will always be your parents and you will never grow out of being their little girl or boy. When I read this story I decided immediately that I’m not going to let something like a heart attack make me go back to see my parents. I really respect my parents, it isn’t that Harry did not respect his father but he really needed to visit the candy shop in a while because in the long run I’m sure the intension of the father opening the candy shop was because he thought that it would make them bond together a lot more than they did.
Whenever I think of being Harry, I get really infuriated because it is hebetudinous not to go and visit your poor father, whom at the time you did not know he was going to have a heart attack, but I think that if Harry would’ve went and visited him once in a while that he would’ve never had that heart attack in the first place. The parrot really helped out in this story, I’m sure the father is glad he got him now. At least this story did work out in the end, because let’s face it, it is a Comedy, full of symbols, that has the purpose to teach a valuable lesson, of course everything is going to work out in the long run.