Even the most conservative and bedeviled can have a rebellious kick. The hairy Toenails had nothing to do with rebellion, although probably percerceived that way. Unfortunately, peole who try to achieve or break out of the preconceived molds of social stamp are usually labelled rebellious or rejected artists. Not that I am so artistic, but I don't quite fit the herd mentality or blend in so easily.
Jack gets deputized to sell off the family cow. It's not the easiest task for a young man with an imagination to go plodding down the road to the local country marketplace to sell the lean animal for now prolonged future gain. His mother wants hard cold cash. Sounds like the parental pressure that accompanies the student to college along with the burdens of longterm financial debts and no promise of future butter fat. You sell the family cow for that miserable scrap of paper which guarantees nothing in the workplace. But Jack was different. He was a tad bit rebellious. he could foresee that really selling the family cow in the public marketplace was a total loss regardless of the money his mother counted. It brought the end to regular milking, possible butter and cheese-- a whole cottage industry. In all reality, he wasn't nearly as stupid as most readers think to make the exchange for the three beans.
Certainly, he was a speculator, but no more than any speculator who invests in Wall Street or the Railroad Bonds of the last century. He traded the cow for a germ of an idea and then planted it so it could grow.
How many teachers get angry or back themselves against walls the moment their pet theories get challenged in the classroom. As for that matter, didn't Microsoft just deny Windows Vista (ugh) getting hacked in the beta Version?
How many parents scoff at their children's abilities and dreams, belittling them and cutting them down for wanting to achieve something they couldn't imagine? Jack was in this position. He sold the cow for a dream at which his mother scoffed and then derided him. But the dream grew and Jack no fool, decided to climb it to find out what he could gain from the experience. He came back with a chest of gold at an ogre's expense.
The penguin lies dreaming...
Sometime, its a dilemma that we find ourselves in-faced with taking the family cow to market for the expected price or rebelling to plant our own seeds in life and climb our own lofty ambitions.
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