Barron In The Tree
Linda Williams
English 101
Analysis of the Love Theme in The Baron in the Trees
The story narrated by one goody-goody and well-behaved brother about his witty, corny and outright smart brother is about courage and wonder, especially when Cosimo's behavior is compared with the one of the today's youth. His brother Biagio says, "Then, with the advent of more careless generations, of improvident greed, of people who loved nothing, not even themselves, all was to change and no Cosimo was to walk the trees again" ( p. 103). The paper seeks to analyze what this statement means in a broad literary aspect. It raises the theme of love, and presents it as the most important for people.
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a fig tree, though, as long as he saw to it that a branch could bear his weigh, he could move about forever; Cosimo would stand under the pavilion of leaves, watching the sun appear through the network of twigs and branches, the gradual swell of the green fruit, smelling the scent of flowers budding in the stalks. The fig tree seemed to absorb him, permeate him with its gummy texture and the buzz of hornets; after a little Cosimo would begin to feel he was becoming a fig tree himself, and move away uneasy. (p. 69)
The narrator gives the reader the feeling of what it is like to merge with nature, when you truly accept the Mother and she accepts you too. It shows that the baron was a warm-hearted person.
Being a 15-year old boy, in 1767, Cosimo rebelled against his parents and went to the trees to show how much he disapproved the world and society in general. From the onset, he is portrayed as a witty and fiery fellow. He has the guts of talking to his father in a ...
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