Sonny

Sonny is the central character of the tragic short story The Golden Acorn.

Personality
Sonny is a kind, cute baby squirrel, but he is oftenly playful and hardheaded. His disobedience led him to his gruesome murder.

Information
Sonny lives in the forest along with his mother and the wild animals, including the Great Eagle who will eventually murder him.

Death
Due to his disobedience, Sonny goes out of his hut and finds a golden acorn not so far away. He grabs the acorn, but without knowledge that it is of the Great Eagle. When the eagle demands the acorn in exchange of his freedom, Sonny refuses and angers the Great Eagle, causing the latter to faint. In one point, Sonny loses balance and falls down with the acorn. He survives the fall, but breaks the golden acorn in the process, to the anger of the eagle.

Sonny attempts to apologize to the eagle, but the latter refuses, the same way as how he refused to return the acorn. Sonny is brutally devoured by the eagle, in the eyes of his sorrowful mother (who has recently returned home from an acorn hunt).