Summary

The story opens with the narrator’s ex-wife coming to his house, asking to speak to him about their daughter Sara. Silvia, his ex-wife, says that he must come with her to see Sara at the house.

The narrator gets to the house and sees his daughter sitting on the couch staring out the window. He assures the reader that his “little girl really was a sweetheart,” but he could clearly see that something was wrong (31). Silvia brings him into the kitchen and explains that she has not fed her since yesterday and to be calm when she shows him what is wrong with Sara. Silvia unveils a shoebox and pulls from it a small sparrow, putting it into the large cage in the room. With her back to her parents, Sara goes over to the cage, pulls out the bird and...