Ogre 3

2. Tournier writes about a lot of animals in this book. In the previous chapters, it was talking about how he nurtured the pigeons, and the Elk. That’s probably one reason why there have been an increasingly number of animals in this book, because he takes the time to care for them. But in these chapters, instead of taking care of the animals, he does the opposite, and kills the animals. He does not like doing this, because he faints. Tiffauges had to exterminate the boars that ate the crops. He would shoot with a pistol and hit behind the ear. We see a whole different side of Tiffauges in regards to the animals. When he actually is working under Hitler’s commands, he has to kill the animals. The other animals were the prehistoric bulls, also known as the auroch. Tiffauges was supposed to talk about the encounter of the aurochs, and when he gave information, the Master of the Hut just laughed. Tiffauges was wearing glasses, which the Third Reich hate men in glasses, they symbolized intelligence, study, and speculation, also known as, a Jew. It was surprising how Tiffauges was compared to a Jew here, because after all, he is working under Hitler’s commands. It just shows that Tiffauges is blind, until he finally understands what is going on. Auroch also resembles the resentment of abandoned children. This can go back to Nestor the Ogre, because Ogre’s usually eat children, but Abel doesn’t hate children, he likes children. Another animal was the lion. What I found interesting about the lion, was they bit the legs of the person, and it was passed to the ogre to eat. Nestor as an ogre doesn’t like to eat people.

3. For the Bluebeard fairytale, the main character was married, and after that was avoided by girls. I can see this as Abel, because after he was with Rachel, no girl wanted to be with him. When it said, “But he soon realized that this recollection was superficial and rested on a confusion. In fact, when he was rubbing his horse’s coat until it shone, he was really repeating the modest satisfactions of polishing his boots and shoes, raised to an incomparably higher power.” In stead of tending to other animals, it seemed as if he was tending to himself. Giving him the courage he needed to rise to a higher power. I see this as foreshadowing, because Abel will rise up to a higher power by the end of the book. He will continue to rise higher in power under Hitler’s command, once they know he is capable of completing the tasks.