stanley pickle

 Summary

A boy lives with his mother and father. He looks out the window to see a girl playing outside everyday but he's too shy to talk with her. One day the girl was crying because her pet bird died. Trying to make her happy, the boy turns the dead bird into a mechanical doll. But when the time came to show it to her, the girl ran away, screaming because she was horrified with the completely changed appearance. Shocked at the girl's behavior, the boy goes back to his house, buries his parents; who were also "repaired" by the boy.

Opinion

I first thought that the family's ways of moving didn't have any reasons, so it was pretty shocking when it turned out that the boy's parents were mechanical dolls. The boy seemed to have trouble getting along with others. Maybe he turned his dead parents into robots because he didn't want to feel lonely. But through the girl's reactions, the boy realized that what he was doing was terrifying, and stops doing it. I thought the last scene means the boy's new step to his life.