Fox blog post

              I read the book Fox, by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks. This is about two friends named Dog and Magpie, who meet Fox who tries to break them up. After reading the book, the first impression you get of Fox is that he is cold hearted and mean. But after analyzing Fox's actions and words, I noticed that there was something more to him. I think a few words that describe Fox are envious, desperate, and lonely. This characteristics can be found in all of his actions, descriptive words, and dialogue.

            
             One descriptive word I came up with was desperate. I do think this is a word to describe Fox because in the end of the book, Fox takes Magpie to the desert and leaves her there. Before he leaves, he tells Magpie that he did it so that Dog and Magpie would feel what it was like to be "truly alone." Fox had been alone for a really long time. The definition of desperation is to be feel hopeless and to have no satisfactory options. I think Fox felt that someone else feeling his pain would make it go away. This happens to many people around us. The common bully. Bullies are usually people who have gone through tough times and take their emotions out on others to make themselves feel better, which is exactly what Fox has done to Magpie and Dog.

              Another descriptive word for Fox is envious. This is because he had been alone for a long period of time And then all of a sudden he meets Dog and Magpie, who have an extremely important bond. They both depend on each other for happiness, Dog as Magpie's wings and Magpie as Dog's other eye. Fox saw that they depended on each other like that, and how they always had each other and got envious. He had never experienced anything like that and it pushed him off the edge of semi sanity. His envy made him attempt to break up Dog and Magpie, so he wouldn't have anything to be envious of.


               My last descriptive word is lonely. I think this because there was one thing that set off his envy and desperation. And that is loneliness. If he had others around him for his entire life, he wouldn't have ever been lonely. He would have met Dog and Magpie, and just became their friend. Magpie wouldn't be in the desert and Dog wouldn't be alone.


          In conclusion, Fox is very envious, desperate, and lonely. The evidence for this is in all of his descriptions, dialogue, and actions. After thinking a little about these words, I realized that I don't feel disgusted by Fox, or feel he is a horrible character. I do actually feel sorry for him. It's not his fault that he was alone for such a long time. Imagine yourself in the city, with just a bunch of strangers. You didn't know where you were, and didn't know anybody there. You had nothing and you had to live through this. Nobody should feel that lonely. But unfortunately for Fox, that was his life.