The end still carries an anti-war message when we find out the dragon is really a peace-loving cosmic spirit who ultimately uses his angelic singing voice to lull the people of earth out of their warmongering ways. here, we find the Giant dismantled and freighted to Australia where he must participate in a battle of the wits with a creature from outer space known as the "space-bat-angel-dragon". However, unlike in the film that is focused on a clear anti-war, anti-gun message, with the bad guys actually being the military itself. The theme of the book is vaguely similar to that of the film, in that the giant does eat metal and is befriended by Hogarth, a young boy, and is left to live in a junk yard where he can eat scrap metal to his heart's content without causing damage to the town.
>Originally published in 1968 by Faber & Faber with drawings by George Adamson, the story is told in five chapters that make up five nights. Taller than a house, the Iron Giant stood at the top of the cliff, on the very brink, in the darkness. The Iron Giant came to the top of the cliff. Not sure for what reason, but if anyone has any ideas, I'd love to know. Now, some folks on the internet seem to think the title of the book was changed from Man to Giant after the movie was released, but the version I have is from 1988 - ten years before the movie was released - and already there was a shift in the title. Penned by renowned poet (and one-time husband to Sylvia Plath), it's the original novel that inspired the Brad Bird animated, 1998 film classic, The Iron Giant (one of my all-time favorite animated movies). I've done some minor sniffing around since I can across this book at the library the other day. Originally published as The Iron Man ~ drawings by George Adamson ~ Faber & Faber, 1968 Ted Hughes ~ Dirk Zimmer ~ Harper & Row, 1988
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