![]() ![]() Both authors make the point as to what stories like this can do to how young minds see the other. “Was I aware of those distinctions as a child? Did I learn to admire the rich from reading the book? Did I also learn about the inferiority of creatures from the jungle (people included)?"ĭorfman, perhaps the most outspoken critic, has made similar arguments in his book: The Empire’s Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to our Minds. "In Babar the reader learns that there are different classes of people and the Rich Lady is of the better class and that elephants are not as good as people, but might be if they imitate people,” Kohl writes. The beautiful, delightfully detailed illustrations-de Brunhoff was a painter by trade-never fail to amuse. In the end, he returns home to share his knowledge and experiences with family and friends. ![]() Kohl is the author of Should We Burn Babar? In the book, he makes several valid points demonstrating how Europeans, and Babar now Europeanized himself, are made superior to the other animals in the jungle. The Story of Babar is essentially the tale of a country boy who comes to the city and, while there, comes of age. Herbert Kohl and Ariel Dorfman make the most notable arguments against Babar, stating he is nothing more than colonialist propaganda. ![]()
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