Bambi, a Life in the Woods was written in 1923 by Felix Salten. This book is different from the movie because it is about how Bambi himself came to overcome not having a mother and grew to live old and alone all his life. The movie is about Bambi being alone then finding the prince stag who turned out to be his dad, then falling in love with Faline. I feel that the original book is about Felix Salten and kind of how he portrayed his life growing up Jewish. I feel it was about how even though he didn’t lose his mother early on like Bambi did, it is about how others suffered during those times. Salten grew up in Austria at the times of the rise of the Nazi party. Even though Felix himself didn’t go through all the terrible things that happened to the Jews during these times, he understood what was happening and the obstacles that they had to overcome. Some of the similarities between the 2 are that not everyone is going to survive. it is better to not get attached to people for this reason because once they do eventually die it will be easier if you didn’t know them. You can see this when Bambi distances himself from his love Faline, because he doesn’t want to be so close to her just for her to be taken away like his mother was. Another one is that the deer felt helpless against the “humans”. I think this is referring to Hitler himself and how the Jewish felt against him, and that one of the only ways to get away and survive him, was to run. The last one I want to talk about is Bambi’s friend Gobo. Gobo was found after he was collapsed and then raised and cared for by the hunter who had found him. Gobo later returns to be with the rest of the deer. A couple weeks after this Gobo is shot and killed after he approached him thinking that all the hunters would be his friend because the one took him in. This one relates to the Jewish who were told by the Nazi party that if you tell us where other Jewish families were, they will leave you alone. This was false and instead, when they arrived to take the Jewish families that they snitched on, instead they took both families. I enjoyed this reading and felt it was very interesting making the connections from this to the book to the holocaust and seeing how many similarities there are.