The Lion

Patricia and the Lion ( original title Le Lion ) is a 1958 published, a French novel by Joseph Kessel. It is about a traveler who probably gets to know the author himself, who has traveled to Kenya in a national park and there is a 13 - year-old girl named Patricia. Patricia speaks all the languages ​​of the local people and can communicate with animals. My best friend is a lion named King, whom she has known since he was born and with which they grew up. The date (2008) only German-language transfer is from Karl smoke and first appeared in 1959 in the Zettner -Verlag, Würzburg and Vienna.

Content

An anonymous narrator (male, a bit older, probably boiler itself ) is located at the last station of East African tour in Kenya National Park. The story begins in medias res, the narrator is in the wilderness on a piece of land which he is not supposed to enter without Ranger. He feels unobserved, it is early morning. Narrator observes a monkey and a gazelle when he is approached by a girl named Patricia. The two become friends, as the narrator proclaims his love for animals. Patricia tells the story of her life (she is multi-lingual, knows all the secrets of the animal world ... ), but when she learns that the narrator is leaving soon, she is angry and disappears again.

He is attracted to the mysterious girl thinks about her when he is invited by the wife of the park manager to his home. So he met Patricia's mother, Sybill, a petite pale nervous Englishwoman who tries to delude him a semblance of European elegance. However, it acts affected the narrator. He is interested in hard for her, wants to see only Patricia. When John Bullit comes, you realize immediately that the couple loves, but also tensions exist - John Bullit is like a big animal, described it as a " sickly ", but civilized man. In addition, Bullit was formerly a place famous hunter. Bullit does not like the narrator at first, because he considers him a civilized ignorant, but they soon make friends, drink whiskey together and talk. Bullit asks the narrator to stay longer in the park. This actually wanted to leave the next day.

The next day, the narrator goes on a sightseeing tour in the park with a ranger and Bogo, his chauffeur on the trip. Fascinated by the Kilimanjaro and the animals, but he knows that he sees only as much as any other tourist also. The group met with two Maasai: they are beautiful, arrogant, aloof. Then Sybill invites him to a tee, what he takes to see again Patricia. Sybill is trying to impress him with an English tea ceremony, but she looks tense. Worried because Patricia is not home, she suffers a nervous breakdown and begs her husband to Patricia to search. Then Kihoro comes home, then Patricia. Bullit leaves the room, ready to go on Patricia for tea. Meanwhile, Sybill familiar to the narrator: You no longer holds out the rawness of nature and people in the park. When Patricia and Bullit are back at the table, both are to tell of their experiences, whereupon Pat King reported. Sybill's nerves are on edge: King is a lion!

Narrator then returns to his tent back, can cancel the flight and decided to stay longer in the park. The next morning he wakes up late. Pat is ready to introduce him to the lions. You go to a location agreed with the lion, Pat talks to the lions. When the narrator doubts of the girl over the lion's absolute control, she gets angry and shows it to him. He leaves her, passing a Masai village and returns to his hut. For dinner, the narrator is again invited to the Bullits: Pat mimics the perfect daughter, wearing a pretty dress, her mother is fun and all are in good spirits. The Bullits report how it has come to the intimate love between Pat and King: Kihoro found the little lion, Pat raised him, then he had to go because Sybill could no longer bear the lion. After dinner Bullit is still drinking a whiskey with the narrator and they say goodbye. However, Pat appeared then on in his room and arranges to meet him for the next morning to watch the Masai while building the new camps.

The next day, all drive with Land Rover through the park, so the narrator gets a glimpse of the beauty of the park. He admires the predators as well as the rhinos, etc. Finally, they meet King, Bullit plays with him, Pat is overjoyed. After this it can Pat settle with the narrator, she wants to visit King again, but at King bore two lionesses. However, King protected the girl in front of the lionesses. The narrator realizes that the young Masai Oriounga watching them. Oriounga is attracted by Pat and wants to compete with King. Pat does so, challenges the Masai, whereupon he comes, but without Lance. Oriounga but then goes away again upset because Pat reserves the lion under its control and not letting out the free fight.

On the same day Sybill come into the tabernacle of the narrator and asks him to convince Pat to go to a French boarding school. Then die of old Masai and a ceremony for the new patriarch will take place. Go all out (also Sybill ), Pat but increases previously out of the car, and then emerge alone there and push all over the head. At the ceremony, like all until Oriounga Bullit asks for the hand of his daughter. As a result, Sybill exciting, all leave the place except Bullit. The next day, Pat appears late, as they only had to learn with her mother. The narrator then goes with her to the tree to again meet King, appears as Oriounga. It comes to a fight, in which the King Masai kills - but Shortly thereafter immersed Bullit on and shoots the lion. Patricia is then heartbroken, their paradise seems destroyed by their own father - even in myself night she travels with the narrator off to Nairobi, where they will henceforth attend a boarding school.

Filming

• Literary work
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( French)
• Novel, epic