Fantastic Mr. Fox is a tale of good versus evil. You may think that it is the fox that is the evil one as he steals chickens, turkeys, ducks and cider from the farmers, but the three farmers he steals from are not your normal fine and upstanding farmers; no, these farmers were “about as nasty and mean as any men you could meet”.
Even if you still think it is morally wrong to steal Roald Dahl cleverly addresses this too as Mr Fox explains to a doubting Mr Badger: “do you know anyone in the whole world who wouldn’t swipe a few chickens if his children were starving to death?”
And all the underground animals are starving to death because the three farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean, one fat, one short, one lean, got fed up with Mr Fox taking their produce all the time so set a trap for him. They waited outside his hole with guns to shoot him. And when Mr Fox did come out they shot him but only got his tail as he shot back inside. But the farmers didn’t stop there. They weren’t going to give up until they had caught the fox. So they tried digging him out, first with shovels then with machines, then they had 108 of their men form a ring around Mr Fox’s hill so that it was quite impossible for him to escape, or any of the other animals, and waited for the hunger to force him out.
But because Mr Fox was crafty, or fantastic, at the end all the animals were having a feast unknowingly supplied by the farmers as the said farmers were still sitting on the hill, getting soaked by the rain, waiting for Mr Fox to come out.
I got this book for my 6-year-old after she watched the film of the same name. The film is different with this book being shorter. However she loves them both.
This book is available from Amazon UK HERE.
No comments:
Post a Comment