However, I took great pleasure to read this story I discovered there long. She talks about the price of freedom. It's a sad story, because it shows the tragic aspect. But the humans or animals always end up preferring to discover the world unattached risking his life rather than live a life locked up, even if it is longer. The tale tells so this need of everyone to live intensely Liberty, despite the dangers it involves. "That life is short regardless, provided it is intense and consistent with our desires" even though this maxim must lead to premature death. Moreover, this story made me really thought of the fable "The Wolf and the Dog" who gets the same theme. The dog is a pet that lives in comfort, while the wolf is lean, no power, but does what he wants. One is attached, the other lives freely. Another nod to the fact that freedom also demands to renounce a form of comfort, to go to his wishes, despite the dangers incurred and assumed. This is how we must understand the cruel end of the tale.
The style of Alphonse Daudet is beautiful, steeped in Provence and the resonances of the small town where you can visit the mill Fontvieille (that I know so well and in charge of the southern lights, its poetry and its pine to enchanting odors).
I liked also-perhaps because I live in the region- the end of the story with a few sentences in Provençal that close the music and give extra to the story, to talk about "the cabro Mossy Séguin."
A great story from 5 years to discover.
