A man tries to pick up a piglet but they work together to avoid getting caught. When a man separates Flora's mother from her piglets, they realize trouble is coming. Eventually, she is caught and put back in the pen to her dismay. She gloriously watches the sled dogs practice and tries to keep up, impressing the farmer. One day, Flora manages to escape her pen and runs through the corn fields. Flora is jealous of Luna's independence and ability to do what she wants. She digs holes, makes up games to play with her brothers, and befriends a cat named Luna. Setting: Flora is bored of her small pen she shares with her mother and brothers. She has a dream but also has friends.įlora has heart, and doesn't give up, like a true pig. She doesn't push and shove, she doesn't run in blind. Taking a page from someone else's review here, I will admit Flora comes out on top to any other pig in written material I've seen as she's genuinely a good character. I could not handle either pig being bullying, pushy, demanding, or expecting things given to them. For all Charlotte's Web brought us, it never brought me enjoying a pig's story, and this too, is to be said for Babe in many ways. I'd have included Charlotte's Web as it's obviously the most pig book people think about, but Wilbur was a whiny pig at the end of the day. If you like either of the before mentioned works, you'll enjoy South Pole Pig. We have a pig who is seen as food or dismissed by humans grow to become more than just a pig and do more than pig things. This was a tale that made me think of Gordy or Babe. There was some darker areas of this book, animals killed, the mention of how ice and cold effects the body(freezing to death, drowning in it, etc), and some other darker angles, but it was easy to gloss over if you don't think about how the protagonist is basically walking bacon to everyone around her. Flora, however, can't seem to get out, until one day people come for her. She enjoys talks with dogs, who inform her of their jobs, enjoys chats with cats who tell her nine lives are just a state of mind. They all have simple pig dreams of food, or at least they all do except for Flora.įlora wants to do more, see more, and become more than simply a pig. Her siblings are pigs, she lives in a pig pen, and her mother is a pig. Flora is born a pig and destined for many pig things.
0 kommentar(er)
