The Wings of Flight

"Fox" by M. Wild and R. Brooks is a fantastic picture book. It is very detailed and written in a creative way! I think that Fox is a great children's book with important themes throughout the story that should be shared with children. I had many themes going on in my mind as I read the story and some of them are listed below. There is also one character in the story that relates to me that is also stated below.

One theme that occurred to me was that "Never judge a person based on their physical appearances."  Dog had bad vision in one eye, and Magpie had a burnt wing, even though these are bad qualities that both of them have, they never judged each other, but cared what was within them. They were basically best friends and loved each other.

"I will be your missing eye, and you will be my wings." Magpie had said once to Dog. This quote to me actually has so much meaning, because this quote describes true friendship. "True friendship is always faithful" is another theme that has stood out to me.

Then comes along a fiery red fox who tries to ruin the relationship between dog and Magpie. I feel that fox did this in both triumph and despair.  I can also relate to this because I have also have been through Fox's stage of friendship before. I was jealous that my two best friends were hanging out with each other and excluded me from many activities they did. I was a lonely child, so I decided to ruin the friendship of my two best friends'. I know, crazy right? Fox was also jealous and couldn't stand the relationship the two best friends had together so he manipulated Magpie in running away with him. This is triumph.

Fox also tried to ruin the relationship between dog and Magpie in despair because he was always sad and he didn't have anyone to be with his entire life, or to play around like dog did with Magpie...just like me. I didn't want my best friends to be together, and exclude me when I introduced them to each other. -_- It just didn't feel right to me.

These are some of the themes that stood out to me, and how Fox relates to my situations in the past.