One really questions if Poppelton’s decision to move from the city to the country was indeed a wise one. While a city pig, he enjoyed city things, like exercise in the park, museums, and other amenities associated with a city. In the country he seems to slowly be declining, mentally and physically. Our fall narrative opens with him inviting random geese to eat cookies. Anyone who has encountered geese know they are despicable creatures that deserve nothing other than to be shooed away. After feeding these geese cookies for no apparent reason, Poppleton imposes on his neighbor by taking a nap on her couch. Though, one must wonder whether Poppleton and Cherry Sue are the proverbial “friends with benefits.” The conclusion to draw from this is that he is slowly losing his mind and not being mentally stimulated in the ways that one might be from museums.
There are reasons to suspect that the country move has deteriorated his physical health. As fall approaches Poppleton needs a new coat, however, he is too large for any of the coats sold by his friend, zacko, at the cost store. After being told he is too large, which is fairness is a questionable business decision on Zacko’s part, Poppleton storms off. He spends the afternoon sulking at his rotund self. Had he remained in the city, he probably would have kept with the exercise routine.
Every fall the Lions Club holds their annual pancake breakfast. They seem to be well trained in pancakes, since if anyone can make a pancake it is a lion. Cherry Sue seems to prefer plain pancakes, but as one would suspect, the lions are making fancy pancakes. Poppleton proceeds to ask three different lions for a plain pancake and is told, in the more direct of ways, no. Cherry Sue acquiesced to a blueberry pancake, which is far superior to plain, but rather than appreciate the efforts Poppleton went through, she suggests that it is she who is the accommodating one.
Overall, the narrative is one that leaves the reader with more questions than answers.
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