However, this can also be used to bring up questions about Mr. Fox, the Smallest Fox, and Badger for stealing cider when he himself clearly does so to an even larger extent than they. This is used humorously, such as when the Rat berates Mr.

Fox are shown to be hypocritical in other words, to act in ways that go against their stated beliefs, especially on moral issues. Stealing is portrayed as necessary and righteous, and the climax of the book comes when the poor animals have a feast (and come up with a plan to continue feasting) at the farmers' expense. The farmer characters' wealth contrasts with the relative poverty of the animals who must steal or scavenge for food.

By having two distinct sentences about the farmers' prosperity before even calling them 'nasty and mean' tells children that this is perhaps even a larger flaw, or what led to their nastiness. All three of them were about as nasty and mean as any men you could meet' (1-2). Dahl writes, 'Down in the valley there were three farms.

Foxfrom the introduction of the farmers in the first few sentences of the book. The theme of socioeconomic status is present in Fantastic Mr. Fox, if only slightly, and forces him to back up his claims of being fantastic by devising a cunning plan to rob the farmers and save the day.Īdditionally, it is the farmers' pride that compels them to sit and wait at the entrance to the fox family’s burrow, even after the foxes are long gone. The experience of watching his family starving and desperate humbles Mr. He considers himself to be a most fantastic fellow, and cannot imagine that the farmers might get fed up and take action against his thievery. Fox’s pride that makes the farmers first realize they have to take action against the woodland creatures. They work together, survive together, and are ultimately better and stronger together. Fox throws a banquet for all of the other animals, inviting them to come live with him and his wife and children and, in a sense, join his family. Fox and his children work together to dig tunnels and escape from the dastardly farmers. Fox and the others never lose sight of the ultimate goal of making sure their families are safe, fed, and happy. Though the fox family and the other animals go through a harrowing ordeal when the farmers attempt to starve them out, and again when they attempt to dig up the hill, Mr.

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