And yet I could not help but feel mortified at the ending, the elephant boy loves is elephant thusly, he loves all elephants and yet he wants to grow up to be a hunter of elephants? scare them to death, coral them, senselessly kill all the elephants for the mercantile profit of a few? WTH? has this boy not heard of extinct animals and how we should co-exist in this world? wholly disconcerting but yet saying this, it is a very good story...