Collect Le Lion Author Joseph Kessel Issued As Textbook

is a book that had the most impact on me when I was a child, I read it when I wasyears old, and it's probably the first time a book made me cry, It's about a friendship between a little girl named Patricia, and her lion, whom she raised since he was a cub, It takes place in Africa, in a reserve near Kilimanjaro, The author's narrative, the atmosphere, and the story are enthralling, I was able to identify myself with Patricia, I saw myself in her struggles, joy, frustration and dreams, It's a wonderful story, but it's also very symbolic, Behind the friendship is the tale of a little girl fight to be true to herself and who she is, in a contemporary world that wants to confine her into a mold.
.I loved this book! It was hard to understand the sentences and words at times but I still loved the descriptions of everything, I did not see the ending coming!,This is the seventh time I read this book, the first six in an English translation, the seventh in the original French,

A French writer, the author He is never named visits as a tourist one of the national parks in Kenya,

a reserve for wild animals, He gets involved with Patricia, ayear old girl with an uncanny power on animals, whose best friend is an adult lion that she had cared for when it was a baby.


The narrator feels himself unable to leave the Park, wanting to "see the end" of the story, which suddenly hastens when Patricia tries to introduce in her personal playground a "morane", a Masai warrior who wants to kill a lion to win her love.
. . The Lion I read the English version is set in East Africa, I read this awhile ago but loved the beautiful descriptive and at times almost poetic way the story is written, you can almost see and feel the beauty of the landscape and its flora and fauna, and I can see the symbolism of the story of a young girl who loves running wild and free and her struggle to resist the pressure of a family and world that puts constant pressure on her to fit in, that wants "tame" her and make her into a "proper" lady in the view of society, and on that level I think most people can relate to the story I know I do/did.


Patricia the girl is the secondary main character and has a gift with animals and in fact her best friend is a huge, fierce lion she raised from a cub.
I liked and sympathised with Patricia at first, but the more the story went on the more I found myself questioning Patricia's motives and actions, I know I am in the minority here but at times it seemed like she was plain rude and was often being superior/condescending in her attitude towards the other characters, I also felt at times she was misusing her "gift" with animals, and being very manipulative, at times arrogant, and selfish towards the other people in her life.
In part this is what leads to the tragedy at the end, with her manipulating both a young boy who had a crush on her, and her own lion companion, a manipulation which backfires and is at least partially responsible for causing the tragic ending, for which she seems to take no responsibility and blames everybody but herself for despite her own big role in how the events unfolded.
That she was willing to put the lion she supposedly cared about and a young boy in danger for her own selfish motives meant I'd lost all sympathy for her by that point, gifted or not.
She didn't even seem that sad or grief stricken from what I remember, just very angry and bitter that things didn't go her way,

I still enjoyed the book, and would recommend it, I just stopped being able to identify or sympathise with the girls character,
Le narrateur fait sa dernière halte dans son voyage en Afrique orientale dans une réserve, Par hasard, il rencontre Patricia à labreuvoir des animaux à laube, Il va rester plus longtemps que prévu,
Pas de grand suspens dans ce livre, on sent le climax monter, Lauteur accentue plutôt les sentiments, lanimalité en nous, Il nous montre une époque ou plutôt la fin dune époque et le début dune nouvelle,
Jai trouvé ce livre très émouvant, Il ma emporté en Afrique, dans cette réserve, aux côtés du narrateur,
Cela serait si beau si nous pouvions vivre comme Patricia auprès des animaux, avec cette compréhension et cette connivence,
Ce livre est merveilleusement écrit, Je comprends quon le mette au programme scolaire mais aton la maturité pour comprendre les messages de lauteur quand on est si jeune Cela serait un très chouette sujet de discussion.

Si j'ai adoré les descriptions, les paysages, les différentes culture et l'ambiance de ce livre, j'avoue que certains passages tiraient un peu en longueur, Ceci dit ce n'est pas vraiment ce qui fait que je ressors mitigée de cette lecture : je ne me suis pas du tout attachée à la petite Patricia, Sa relation avec King est certes magique, magnifique, intense et unique, et j'ai aimé les passages où ils se retrouvent, Cependant, j'ai trouvé Patricia trop manipulatrice, et un peu trop sûre d'elle, A la fin j'avais limite envie de dire "c'était le risque, tant pis pour toi",
Bref je suis quand même un peu déçue, j'aurais mieux fait de rester sur l'impression que m'avait laissé ce livre très jeune à savoir celle d'un livre sublime et touchant.
"Aunque pueda parecer una trama simple, juvenil, esta novela encierra un gran fondo psicológico por parte de sus protagonistas", Más en sitelink wordpress. com/ The Lion by Joseph Kessel is a nice but sad story, It is set in East Africa in a Reserve at the foot of Kilimanjaro, There lives amongst the native tribes and wild animals a strange contemporary family, A woman Sybil and her husband called Bullit are deceptive to each other and everybody else, Their very young daughter Patricia has a queer and mysterious power over a wildmaneating lion, The lion replaces in fact the role her parents, Then there is also a Lise Darbois phenomenon something perhaps cultural and social the past that is lost forever,
The author himself lives for a time near the family and its stifling atmosphere makes him feel losing all sense of proportion, I have to think again about my favorite poet John Donne and his An Anatomy of the World, first published in, shortly after the Galileos accounts of his work with telescope.
In addition, only a young innocent girl could have according to Donne reunion the world that seemed to be due to new philosophy disintegrated, and all in pieces, Now Patricia with her pure animal joy and special grace would inspire in people unique feelings of tenderness and heal the world, However, in the mid of twentieth century the disorder in the world progressed to such extend that there seemed to be no hope to revive its sanity, The lion was finally shot dead by Bullit himself and the girl Patricia left alone, And the beasts danced on, Theres hidden quite a symbolic in it,
Le lion, est une histoire damour tragique entre une petite fille et un lion, Audelà de cette histoire magnifique, Joseph Kessel nous fait voyager au cœur de la savane africaine, On imagine les somptueux paysages de la brousse au pied du Kilimandjaro, on hume les odeurs de la savane, on découvre le monde magique des animaux sauvages mais aussi les différentes tribus, leurs modes de vie, leurs coutumes, leurs cérémonies.
Un roman dune rare beauté, mais cruel, tellement cruel Ce livre comporte des déclencheurs à caractère raciste, On a beau se remettre à l'époque où ça a été écrit la Rhodésie était encore d'actualité mais il reste que ça écorche tout au long du récit.


Ceci étant dit, c'est une histoire touchante qui est venue chercher l'amoureuse des animaux que je suis, Par contre, on s'attache difficilement à quelque personnage que ce soit dans le roman, à l'exception peutêtre de la mère pour qui j'éprouvais de la sympathie devant le désarroi et le mal être qui l'habitait face à son vécu et à celui de sa fille.
Justement, le personnage de la fillette était imbuvable mais le dénouement tragique rendait bien toute la cruauté et l'intensité que peuvent abriter l'enfance, Pendant longtemps, je n'ai pas voulu lire Le Lion car j'avais vu des passages du film, qui m'avait l'air affreusement triste làdessus je n'avais pas tort, Mais il aurait été dommage de passer à côté d'un si beau roman pour autant ! Donc préparez vos mouchoirs, mais ne ratez pas l'occasion de devenir, en compagnie du narrateur, témoin de l'étonnante amitié entre Patricia et King.
Dépaysement total. Lauteur réussit avec talent et justesse à nous plonger en plein cœur de la vie sauvage, dans la brousse du Kenya,

Cependant, lhistoire ma tellement ennuyée

Et il planait un  jenesaisquoi  de tellement étrange, La relation damitié quasi obsessionnelle qui naît entre cet homme et cette jeune fille Les aventures de cette dernière au cœur des bêtes sauvages, genre quand elle passe proche de se faire empaler par un rhinocéros et quelle éclate de rire.
Je ne sais pas, peutêtre mon esprit sauvage nest pas assez développé,