Now suddenly he's walking around on two legs, whereas he was on all fours up until the point he put clothes on. I was surprised this that this shop has clothing in his size, especially the shoes. Although given that wild elephants only live in Africa and Asia and all the people depicted in this book appear to be European, I'm not sure where exactly this takes place.Īnyway, Babar takes the purse, goes to a store, rides up and down the elevator repeatedly until the "elevator boy" tells him to stop and get out, and then buys himself some clothes, including shoes. Nobody bats an eye at this presumably French-speaking (the original language of the book, although all of the text, even that in the pictures, has been translated into English) elephant. Babar says to her politely: 'Thank you, madam.'" She does not seem at all surprised that elephants can talk or are intelligent, which makes it all the more horrifying that his mother was shot that's so weird. As she likes to make people happy, she gives him her purse. Then "luckily, a very rich Old Lady who has always been fond of little elephants understands right away that he is longing for a fine suit. He's just really impressed by the city, and sees two gentlemen who are well-dressed and wishes that he had some clothes just like them. He's never seen a town before, having spent his life in the forest. The hunter tries to catch Babar, but Babar runs away for several days and eventually comes to a town. That kind of abrupt parental demise gives the Disney company a run for its money. The main character is a baby elephant named Babar who plays with his mother and loves his mother very much, and on the fifth page of the book, his mother is shot and killed by a hunter. I've heard people claim it's about colonialism, but I don't know.
What on earth did I just read? This is a weird book.
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