Mario the lone bookwolf's Reviews > The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Getting an optimistic overkill while overstraining one's eyes

Because this book simply kind of wants to make the world a better place
It tries to give important, profound lessons about good and bad, struggling with emotional problems, self reflection, and many other topics in a minimalistic way. With some rudimentary drawings and many Buddha zen Yoda wise master style dialogues, scenes, and conclusions, it condenses essential philosophical, ethical, and psychological questions, issues, and problems to a level easy to understand for younger audiences.

Who let the fox out horsing around with a mole?
An extremely clever character, or more precise personality and temperament, constellation to give the boy the overkill of deep insights. This might have been the trickiest thing in writing the graphic novel, finding the 3 perfect wise or silent companions to create the best allegories, pictures, riddles, and metaphors thinkable. That´s especially complex because there are 2 philosophy prodigies with different, credible perspectives that reflect different schools of thought. At least I got it that way, although I´m not sure.

An extreme example of how readers' cognitive biases influence their rating of positive psychology
I, for instance, am as dark as it´s possible and that´s no swagger pimp stuff, just how I roll. But I still believe that a kind of seemingly naive and unrealistic approach, of making kids better future adults, creates a profound difference to somewhen build utopias. Of course, critics can say that the idealized version of reality will let kids hit the ground even harder, but I think that

It doesn´t downplay serious topics or has any moralizing dramedy soap opera trigger like other genre examples
Instead, it´s a perfect balance of profundity and easy to understand concepts. And I also do believe that every adult, who really wants to, can grow back to the idealistic kid she/he once was.

A wiki walk can be as refreshing to the mind as a walk through nature in this completely overrated real life outside books:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy...