5/29/2023 0 Comments Fantastic mr fox bookTheir home had been razed but, in the concluding scene, they discover the fruits of commercial society in the shape of an ‘international supermarket.’ In the end, they are banished from the comforting orange tinge of the wood for the dark, grey gloom of the urban sewers, and made complacent by the easy and sanitized food chain of the city. By the end, the foxes and the rest of the animals of the woods are banished to the sewers. A series of escalations, provocations, and altercations ends in tragedy (as Mrs. Naturally, a fox being a fox, conflict ensues. The problem is these neighboring farms in the valley were owned by the three worst farmers, the ‘horrible crooks’ Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Fox’s desire for upward mobility and the finer things in life moves them to a fox hole under an idyllic tree in the woods, fit with a beautiful vista overlooking a spanning valley of fields and orchards. Fox and family’s story begins in a decent burrow, a home proper to the fox. Fox (2009) recently, I was first struck by its often less-than-subtle critical perspective on the onset of industrial society and its encroachment against nature and community.
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