All English school books usually talk about a boy, who want to introduse and to talk about himself and his family.
He usually a student, And to the surprise, his parents are always an engineer and teacher.
I don,t know why it is so, probably because the engineer is a masculine and technical profession, and the teacher is female and humanitarian.
Maybe it is about the person, who thought up the stories.
Maybe it's such a standard or it has little imagination.
The narrator does not specify exactly which engineer and what the teacher.
Apparently, the narrator is not interested about this trifle.
Then begins the story about pets.
Usually it's a dog.
Not a parrot, not a turtle and not a fish, It is usually a dog with some kind of nickname like Tim or Jim, why does not he have some kind of intricate name like "Fang" or like "Fluffy wolf".
It's unclear why, but usually it's Tim orJim, and it's not a parrot or a turtle.
The narrator is usually an athlete, he plays basketball and windsurfing.
It's unclear where the boy finds a spot for windsurfing?
This is also the author's secret.
He is already an adult and is going to enter the university, but in the footsteps of his parents it is clearly not going to go.
He does not want to be a teacher, not an engineer.
He wants to become a journalist or an interpreter.
Here's the fairy tale end.