There once was a parrot that lived in a small cage up on a big green tree.
Everyday she would hear other birds singing songs, or see them flying high in the sky. But she didn't know how to sing. When she opened her mouth she would only squawk. Flying came to her only in her dreams. I do not think she even realised she was a bird.
The parrot's cage was small, and she did not know what to do, so she kept nodding her head over and over again and everybody around was happy to see such a polite and obedient parrot. One day a storm came and the cage fell down and broke. The parrot thought that she was badly hurt as she felt strange pain on the sides of her body. She looked at herself and for the first time saw her green wings. The cage she lived in was so small that she could never spread them before.
And now the parrot wants to learn how to fly...
