A book about the difficulties of living one’s difference. The meeting with Juliet is very important for Romeo, because it’s the first time that somebody doesn’t tease him, and it makes all the difference.
I wanted to tell the story of an unusual couple: you wonder what they’re doing together…
And yet they get along beautifully. Moreover, the strongest of the two is not the one you think.
Why isn’t Romeo afraid of the mouse? First of all, she talks to him before showing herself (we are always afraid of what we don’t know), and secondly, you can guess that he is more sensitive than the others (because he blushes) and therefore less inclined to react stupidly, herd-like.
The elephants who tease him, clustered on the edge of the page, look like an octopus. It’s the image of the monstrous and idiotic crowd.
The book ends with the following sentence: "They never separated because they were, quite simply, happy together". A happy ending which implies that when they’ll no longer be happy, they’ll be brave enough to separate.