The novel, The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest is a 1928 novel written by Felix Salten and the book tells the story of Bambi and his life from a young fawn to adulthood. This character is highly popular, as there has been a movie about Bambi released in 1942 by Disney. There is a huge contrast between the book and the movie, the book has a lot more violence and has more mature themes than the kids movie. The movie kind of just throws away most of the themes that made the book interesting in favor of tale that kids will watch. I’ve never seen Bambi at all, but I know that if I was a kid and I watched Bambi, I probably would’ve liked it. Many sources say that this book was supposed to be an allegory for how Jews were treated in Europe during the time that this book was written and I can definitely see that. A lot of this book revolves around the animals hiding from dangerous forces and trying to survive and live a decent life and I can understand that that’s what the Jews in Europe faced. From what I understand, Felix Salten was born as a Jew, so this book probably reflects some of the experiences that he faced being a Jew. There was even a sequel to this book, titled Bambi’s Children and it was published in 1939 by the same author. In the movie, the main theme is that love will be forever and it will never die, however the book says that being alone is how you survive, so there is a pretty big contrast between the book and movie. Overall, Felix Salten was pretty smart to write a book about the persecutions and dangers that the Jewish people faced and then disguise it as a story about animals in the forest.