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Why do people rebel? What is the nature of mutiny? Grownups can be rebellious�� Children may be mutinous��
Cosimo is just twelve years old��

The wind was blowing in from the sea, I remember, and the leaves were stirring. Cosimo said, “I told you I don’t want it, and I don’t!�� and he pushed away the plate of snails. Never had such grave disobedience been seen.

Stuffiness and stagnation�� The father is a symbol of the old rotten times��

Our father, the baron, was a dull man certainly, although not a bad one: dull because his life was dominated by thoughts that were out of step, as often happens in eras of transition.

Cosimo revolts�� And leaving the world of bipeds walking the earth he, jumping from branch to branch, migrates to the world of trees�� He becomes an arboreal dweller��

Cosimo’s first days in the trees had no goals or plans but were dominated only by the desire to know and possess that kingdom of his. He would have liked to explore it immediately to its farthest boundaries, study all the possibilities it offered, discover it tree by tree and branch by branch.

Rebellion for rebellion’s sake is the purest form of revolution.