The Sweetest Fig

✍ Scribed by Chris Van Allsburg, Illustrated short stories

• Book ID: 111693472
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 818 KB
• Series: Illustrated short stories
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The Sweetest Fig introduces questions about empathy, cruelty, respect, greed, and control.
Monsieur Bibot, the cold-hearted Parisian dentist, is given two magical figs as payment from one of his patients. The figs make Bibot’s dreams become a reality. Monsieur Bibot refused to believe such nonsense and proceeded to eat one of the figs for a bedtime snack. Although it was possibly the finest, sweetest fig he had ever tasted, it wasn't until the next morning that Monsieur Bibot realized it indeed had the power to make his dreams come true. While dragging his poor dog, Marcel, out for his walk, he discovered that his strange dream from the night before was becoming all too real.
Bibot tries to control his dreams before eating the second fig in order to become the richest man in the world. His dog Marcel eats the fig first, thwarting Bibot’s plans to become the richest man in the world. Bibot angrily chases Marcel around his apartment and then under the bed. Annoyed, Bibot goes to sleep. The next morning Bibot wakes to find he has become the dog and Marcel, the new master.