"Doctor DeSoto" by William Steig

"Doctor De Soto"

by William Steig

The main reason why I chose this book, was because of its cover: It is Yellow.
I don't wear much yellow (or not at all), but I just like this color.

The second reason why I chose it, is because it seems short and I am lazy (I said it before).
However, I am trying not to (I said this too), so next time I will chose a longer one. (not because I am trying not to, but because I like to read too). (I seem really contradictory, but logical at the same time, please no need ti waste time thinking about all the nonsense I just stated previously, I don't even get it myself.)



                            However, even if it's short, I still can say something meaningful.

   
     In Brief, Doctor De Soto is dentist and he is a mouse.
He is working with his wife Mrs. De Soto as his assistant.
And for their own security, they refuse to treat any dangerous animal to them, like cats and others...

Predictably, a vile predator begged them for a treatment.
They accepted and in the end, they successfully outfoxed him, because obviously he was going to eat them anyway (how ungrateful!)

What I like about this book, is the illustrations.
For god's sake, look at their tiny cute eyes, and how small they are.
They look so cute that it makes me want to squeeze them!
(I guess, I might be a dangerous animal to them too)

 
   I think I will be a Mouse if I were a character in the story.
They will of course treat me as patient, but it doesn't mean that I won't harm them.
It is not because I look harmless, so that I actually am.

We all the same in real life,
We are all humans, we are all the same.
However, we are not harmless.
We destroy ourselves, we are our own Nemesis (how interesting).


And it reminds me of the proverb stated by Thomas Hobbes (If I got it right):
"L'homme est un Loup pour l'homme" In french, or "Homo homini Lupus" in Latin or "A man is a wolf to another man". I couldn't find the translation in Chinese, but I saw an article in Korean on it on Wikipedia (...What?!).

Which mean that "We" as Humans are likely to kill each other.
We somehow act like a wolf, fearless, cruel... big bad wolf yeah.

We love each other, we hate each other but we cannot live without one another (Really paradoxical, humans are really complicated and curious things.).

Appearance are deceptive.
Stay Alert.

"Enemies are those of your own household"

Matthew 10:36

Jasmine