![]() The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly displays the almost impossible fight against all odds to survive to fulfil ones dreams as Sprout’s chance at freedom finally appears, paradoxically, as the decision is made to cull her. As with Jonathan in Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Sprout is a symbol of the reader. Sprout dreams of her future, of roaming free, of sitting on and hatching her own egg. ![]() In its barnyard tale the book features themes of freedom, individuality, and motherhood as Sprout the hen is no longer content to continue laying eggs for the farmers and have them taken away never having even touched them. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, Sun-Mi Hwang’s international best seller, also known as being adapted into Korea’s most successful animated movie, Leafie, A Hen into the Wild, took me back to being young and reading Jonathan Livingston Seagull. As it says on the ‘tin’, its about a seagull, and Jonathan is sick of living the boring life his seagull eyes show him and he strives for self perfection. ![]() ![]() When I was young I was rarely given books by my father, when I was they were often about history and mostly about wars and planes, that’s why Jonathan Livingston Seagull is one I will always remember. ![]()
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