Papa's Parrot Essay

If you didn’t see your dad for more than a week what would you do? In the story “Papa’s Parrot” Mr.Tillans son barely spent time with his dad for more than a two weeks. Charley’s dad always missed his son, then something happened to Charley that made him want to visit his dad. This story is a comedy that touches you if you don’t hang out with your parents or don’t like them, because you know your parents will always care for you.

“Papa’s Parrot” is definitely a comedy because in the story there is a mild conflict. The mild conflict in the story started right in the beginning of the story, which is the father missed his son (Charley) because his son would never want to visit him or acknowledge his dad cared for him. Once Mr. Tillan went to the hospital his son had to take over the shop. Charley went into the shop and cleaned the place up, his dad’s parrot kept annoying Charley while he was cleaning. Charley knew that the parrot copied everything someone said, and the parrot decided to say, “Where is Charley, I miss him.” Charley then realized that he should visit his dad more often, and this was the life symbolism of the comedy.

This story relates to real life because, when you grow up and get to the teenage stage, you start to not realize how your parents feel about you and kind of just care about yourself and hanging out with friends. As you get older or something happens to your parents you finally start to think about how you act around them. Then you realize everything your parents did for you, such as raise you, spoil you, and love you. After you think of that, you totally change your perspectives around your parents and fell very bad for all the things you did.

The purpose of “Papa’s Parrot” was to spend quality time with your family because they’re not going to be around forever. The reason so is because when Charley’s dad went to the hospital, Charley had to take care of the shop. Rocky (the dad’s parrot) copies everything someone says, and while Charley was cleaning the shop the parrot said, “Where is Charley, I miss him.” Charley then thought of how he never use to hang out with his dad around the shop or any place else, and felt horrible, then decided he should spend more quality time with his father.

This story just proves why you should hang out with your parents, not saying everyday and not have a social life and make friends. But don’t always just care about your feelings because you probably won’t get along with your parents and your parents care about you, and imagine how they feel when you are being mean and ignoring them for so long.