I think Silas was important because he was a link with the outside world, and of course he knew a great deal, having been around for a very long time. Bod didn’t have adventures with his parents, but they were a safe place to go to atthe end of the day (or night).
Reverting back to Kipling, Mowgli spends a lot of time with Bagheera, but he went back to see his wolf parents and mourned for them when they died.
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