This book is a masterpiece, maybe the most genius work of art i have ever had the pleasure of witnessing in my entire life
you should read the french translation, it is very different
>>25641359Just tell me what happens.
>>25641307the entire work is compromised
>From birth to his metamorphosis, we are taken through this transcendental dining experience alongside our friend, the caterpillar.>But is it just eating that Carle wishes for us to ascertain? Well, that depends on what you mean by eating.>Now the stomachache, that's the part we must truly dig into. Is this consequence? Karma? The caterpillar needs the calories to transform, to fulfill his evolutionary purpose, yet here he lies in pain! Punished!
>>25641359The French are known for twisting things to their macabre ends. I bet this is no different.
>>25641718this man is obviously suicidal lol
>>25641307Amazon suggested this book to me after I bought collections of Pound's and Tang dynasty Chinese poetry lol
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>>25641718Made my day a little better. Thanks, anon!
>>25641704I don't remember this part of Very Hungry Caterpillar, maybe I read the abridged version as a kid
>>25641751Based Amazon dabbing on pseuds
>>25641679He gets mistaken for a snail and they eat him, it's a bloodbath
>not The Giving Tree
>>25641679at the end he gets incarcerated in French Guiana
>>25641754>25 pages
>>25641307It is good, but it's slightly flawed.The bit about the stomach-ache was forced on EC by his editors. They (probably she, let's face it) said they had to put that bit in to send a message that BEING GREEDY IS BAD, MMKAY?Carle was never happy with it. As far as he was concerned, the caterpillar was just doing what Nature programmed it to do. It was fulfilling its biological imperative, and it was right to eat as much as it could, and it SHOULDN’T get a stomach-ache.He fought them all the way but they over-rode him. Maybe one day we'll get a Director's Cut. Never mind. Even as it is, it's still a fine, inspiring work.(This is all true, by the way.)
>>25643894why do zey shame us for our inborn hunger?
>>25641679The Caterpillar hides out at the Cleland family's house, and ambushes them when they come home since they're just going to try and kill his sister. The Cleland's youngest son shoots the Caterpillar, but can't stomach finishing the job, and the Caterpillar lets the son leave with his car. After the son leaves, the Caterpillar explains that the son is his half-brother, and that the blood feud has been over both the Cleland's mother and the Caterpillar's dad's affair the whole time. The reat of the Cleland family opens fire on the Caterpillar, and they have a shootout that kills all of them.
>>25641307His insatiable gluttony disgusts me
>>25641307I used the chart as a guide and got filtered hard by intro Carle
>>25644630It's actually supposed to inspire you, coward.
