The man pulling the rope asked the boy to jump. Is that similar to a cuckoo laying its egg in a raven's nest?
He asked the boy to jump; the boy jumped higher and higher. Is that comparable to a raven discovering a baby's singing talent, only to find it's not its own child?
The man asked the boy to jump, but the boy jumped without direction. Is that similar to a cuckoo's lack of direction in flight, unsure whether to follow its abandoning mother or feel grateful to the raven caring for it without knowing its true parentage?
The man brought the rope and asked the boy to jump; it was his decision. The boy accepted the decision and tried to jump as the man desired, but couldn't clear the tree.
Should he cut off his arms and attach them to his heels? Would that make him taller or enable him to jump higher? However, with his arms attached to his shoulders, now hollowed out from the man's decision, the boy still tried to jump higher than the tree.
The tree where the cuckoo laid its egg, and from which the raven pushed out the singing baby. The boy tried to jump higher than the tree but couldn't even reach the spot where the motionless cuckoo's baby, with scarlet wings, lay beneath.
The man brought the rope and asked the boy to jump. The boy tried to jump higher and higher...