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You know, from the classic children's book?
All the other young bulls want to do one thing (be picked for the bullfight) and Ferdinand doesn't. Ferdinand is happier by himself doing his own thing that he likes than he is with the other young bulls trying to fit in and do the things they want to do. (Ferdinand is a very lucky bull, because his mother understands, and lets him do what he likes to do instead of trying to force him to be like the other bulls.)
Ferdinand is a sensory-seeker: all he wants to do is smell the flowers.
When Ferdinand is in pain, he has a meltdown (snorts and paws the earth and acts crazy). (This is why they think he'd be a good candidate for the bullfighting ring.)
But when they get him there, they can't get him to fight because he doesn't want to. (Ferdinand still doesn't participate in social expectations, preferring to do what he wants to do--i.e. smell the flowers.)
In the end, Ferdinand is allowed to go back home and just be himself, experiencing the world the way he wants and needs to.
All the other young bulls want to do one thing (be picked for the bullfight) and Ferdinand doesn't. Ferdinand is happier by himself doing his own thing that he likes than he is with the other young bulls trying to fit in and do the things they want to do. (Ferdinand is a very lucky bull, because his mother understands, and lets him do what he likes to do instead of trying to force him to be like the other bulls.)
Ferdinand is a sensory-seeker: all he wants to do is smell the flowers.
When Ferdinand is in pain, he has a meltdown (snorts and paws the earth and acts crazy). (This is why they think he'd be a good candidate for the bullfighting ring.)
But when they get him there, they can't get him to fight because he doesn't want to. (Ferdinand still doesn't participate in social expectations, preferring to do what he wants to do--i.e. smell the flowers.)
In the end, Ferdinand is allowed to go back home and just be himself, experiencing the world the way he wants and needs to.
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Date: 2017-04-07 06:17 pm (UTC)From:I've never encountered this book before but--does it deal with the fact that fighting bulls get slaughtered in the ring? Like... that just feels like a bizarre conflict because how is Ferdinand NOT the smart guy here?
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Date: 2017-04-07 08:02 pm (UTC)From:On the day the guys come to pick the bull to fight, the other bulls try to show off and Ferdinand goes back to sit down and smell the flowers, but he sits on a bee which stings him, and from his reaction to that he gets chosen.
On the day of the bullfight, however, he just gets to the ring, sits in the middle, and smells all the flowers in the ladies' hair. The matador and picadors and all get really angry, so angry they cry, but they can't get Ferdinand to fight, and so he gets sent back to his meadow to smell the flowers and is happy.
The closest they get to mentioning the death part of bullfighting is describing how spiffy the matador and picadors and stuff look with their weapons and fancy embroidered clothes.
They are, apparently, making a movie of it.