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"THE WIZARD OF OZ." Term Paper ID:30891
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Success of L. Frank Baum's book.... More...
3 Pages / 675 Words
3 sources, 5 Citations,
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Success of L. Frank Baum's book. Brief history of the book. Contends the book is a psychological fairy tale. Elements important to the story's success and continued popularity. Populist message. Allegorical content. Spiritual message of the book. Characters ability to succeed on their own. Inner strength stronger than magic.
Paper Introduction: L. Frank Baum created a magical place in his book The Wizard of Oz and in the many subsequent books he wrote about this fantastic land to which the Kansas farm girl, Dorothy, was transported by a tornado. Baum wrote 13 Oz books, and the books were carried on after his death by others so that another 19 books were added in the 19 years after Baum's death (Harmetz 292).
Lyman Frank Baum was 43 years old when he wrote the first Oz book. In 1899 he wrote a book then titled The Emerald City, and he took it to the George M. Hill Publishing Co. in Chicago, Illinois. The book was indeed an instant success and sold out its first edition of 10,000 copies in two weeks. Some 90,000 copies were sold during 1900 and 1901. The book has never been out of print, and by 1956, when the copyright was extended,
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Discusses the children's story by Barbara Cooney.... More...
5 Pages / 1125 Words
4 sources, 4 Citations,
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Discusses the children's story by Barbara Cooney. Analysis of the narrative, the action and ideas. Use of colorful illustration to reinforce the themes of the narrative. Author's choice of point of view (first person narrator) with story told by a child about her great aunt. Manipulation of time; interaction between past and present.
Paper Introduction: This research examines the children's story Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney. The plan of the research will be to set forth the pattern of ideas and action emerging in the narrative and then to discuss the literary means by which the action is driven and the ideas are illustrated and articulated.
The first important feature of Miss Rumphius that must be noted is the fact of the interpenetration and interdependence of narrative and illustration. Indeed the mechanism of colorful illustration reinforces and helps explain the themes of the narrative. This is a point to which the research will return. The second notable feature of Miss Rumphius is that its fundamental narrative strategy has to do with point of view and the manipulation of time. The story is told in the voice of its first-person-peripheral narrator, Alice, who is a child with a great
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Discusses the life of the Danish author and his influence on children's literature.... More...
4 Pages / 900 Words
4 sources, 14 Citations,
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Discusses the life of the Danish author and his influence on children's literature. His fairy tales ("The Little Mermaid," "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Ugly Ducking" & many others). Andersen's unique writing style. How his self-perception as an outsider impacted on the themes of his fairy tales. His use of oral narrative. Gives specific examples.
Paper Introduction: Hans Christian Andersen was born on April 2, 1805 at Odense, Denmark. Although he attended two different schools at Odense, he did not complete his schooling until he was given state funding to attend Slagelse State Grammar School in 1822. Six years later, he passed his university examinations (Spink 117-8).
With the publication of his first novel, The Improvisatore, Andersen also published his first set of fairy tales containing “The Tinder Box,” “Little Claus and Big Claus,” “The Princess and the Pea” and “Little Ida’s Flowers” in 1835 (Spink 53). From 1837 onwards, Andersen published his fairy tales in annual volumes. On August 4, 1875, he died at a summer villa near Copenhagen after suffering several years from liver cancer (Spink 117-8; "Chronology of HCA's Life").
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Discusses Romantic concepts re: beauty of natural world over man made things in Hans Christian Anderson's short story.... More...
7 Pages / 1575 Words
4 sources, 9 Citations,
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Discusses Romantic concepts re: beauty of natural world over man made things in Hans Christian Anderson's short story.
Paper Introduction: Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Swineherd" employs a number of Romantic concepts to advance the notion that the natural world is more valuable and beautiful than the world of man-made things. It is not so much that man-made things--especially wondrous or expensive man-made things--are useless or have no value, but rather that the living entities of nature (in this story, the rose and the nightingale, and the poor prince himself) are far more precious. Human happiness, in the Romantic tradition, is closely connected to an ability to appreciate these natural wonders.
Although analysts of Romanticism note that the term is used to mean many different things to many different people, there are common elements to the Romantic traditions of various places and times, including "an increasing interest in Nature, and in
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His life & career in children's literalture as a writer & illustrator/artist. His motivations & inspirations; famous works.... More...
7 Pages / 1575 Words
7 sources, 9 Citations,
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: His life & career in children's literalture as a writer & illustrator/artist. His motivations & inspirations; famous works.
Paper Introduction: Maurice Sendak
His Background
He has been called both a pariah and a Picasso. Some critics have called him an original genius, while others claim he is derivative. The man is Maurice Sendak, and he is, at the age of 72, undoubtedly a force in both literature and art. His beginnings were humble, the son of Polish immigrants in Brooklyn, and he grew up surrounded by relatives who had survived the Holocaust.
Born in 1928, he was nine when Hitler began taking bits and pieces of Europe, and when he was entering the teen years and being bar mitzvahed, most of his parents’ families in Europe had perished in concentration camps.
In 1999, he confided to a reporter his memories of those days. “I think my mother'
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Collection of 16 young adult stories in "AM I BLUE?" that deal with gay & lesbian teens, their friends & parents. Positive message conveyed.... More...
4 Pages / 900 Words
1 sources, 2 Citations,
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Collection of 16 young adult stories in "AM I BLUE?" that deal with gay & lesbian teens, their friends & parents. Positive message conveyed.
Paper Introduction: Am I Blue? Is a collection of coming-of-age stories centering on teens who are Gay or Lesbian or have Gay or Lesbian parents or friends. The stories all share a common structure in the sense that all the plots revolve around a personal conflict, a family conflict or a peer conflict, and all the conflicts are resolved. Conflict resolution tends to bring the central character to a new state of awareness after which he or she cannot be what he or she once was and must move forward, usually with greater confidence.
In this sense, all the stories convey a positive message.
The overriding theme of this collection is "you=re not alone" and the average age of the central character in conflict is 17. Because of the age, the characters all have much in common with
straight teenagers in the sense that all teenagers are concerned with
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Analyzes gender images, roles & messages for girls & boys in fairy tales, focusing on "Snow White."... More...
4 Pages / 900 Words
3 sources, 6 Citations,
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Analyzes gender images, roles & messages for girls & boys in fairy tales, focusing on "Snow White."
Paper Introduction: Some things about fairy tales we know to be true. They begin with "once upon a time." They end with "happily ever after." And somewhere in between the prince rescues the damsel in distress.
Of course, this is not actually the case. Many fairytales omit these essential words. But few fairytales in the Western tradition indeed fail to have a beautiful, passive maiden rescued by a vibrant man, usually her superior in either social rank or in moral standing. Indeed, it is precisely the passivity of the women in fairy tales that has led so many progressive parents to wonder whether their children should be exposed to them. Can any girl ever really believe that she can grow up to be president or CEO or an astronaut after five viewings of Disney's "Snow White"?
Bacchilega (1997, chapter 2) chooses "Snow White" as a nearl
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Life & career of author of spiritual children's books, including [A Wrinkle in Time].... More...
7 Pages / 1575 Words
9 sources, 9 Citations,
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Life & career of author of spiritual children's books, including [A Wrinkle in Time].
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Far from being satisfied with the settled, comfortable existence of an affluent and artistic household or with the benefits of being married to a successful actor, Madeleine L'Engle applied and built on the many advantages into which she was born to the project of her own artistic and professional development. An award-winning writer of children's books, including A Wrinkle in Time, which was published in 1962 and won the Newbery Medal in 1963, and which served as the touchstone for three sequels that shaped the rest of what has been described as the Time Quartet (Estes 1620), L'Engle now divides her time between writing and lecturing, holding the post of writer-in-residence and librarian at the Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City (Collection).
6 Pages / 1350 Words
9 sources, 9 Citations,
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Examines children's novels, author's intentions toward readers, characters, narrative, setting.
Paper Introduction: By the time Jerry Spinelli's preadolescent novel Maniac Magee won the Newbery Medal in 1991, he had been a published author of children's and young-adult fiction for some nine years. Although a seasoned editor at Chilton, publisher of nonfiction instructional books and magazines, and a contributor to various nonfiction anthologies (Something 198), he had been trying to find a publisher for his stories for several years before the first novel, Space Station Seventh Grade, came out in 1982 (Who's Who). Only in 1989 did Spinelli leave his post at Chilton, by which time four additional novels had been published: Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush? (1984); Night of the Whale (1985); a sequel to Space Station, Jason and Marceline (1986); and Dump Days (1988). In a 1998 interview, citing the vicissitudes of the writer's life as a marketer of his or her work, he noted that he had w
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Critical analysis of points of view, themes & humor of novels [Alice in Wonderland] & [Through the Looking-Glass] & poem "A Sea Dirge."... More...
7 Pages / 1575 Words
5 sources, 16 Citations,
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Critical analysis of points of view, themes & humor of novels [Alice in Wonderland] & [Through the Looking-Glass] & poem "A Sea Dirge."
Paper Introduction: This study will provide a critical analysis of three works by Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and the poem "A Sea Dirge." In the two fantasy novels, Carroll depicts young Alice and her loss of contact with the commonplace reality to which she was accustomed. Alice finds the world of nature not as reliable as she had once believed and yet discovers that she can act with adaptability and courage in that strange world. The poem, conversely, shows the poet's hatred toward the sea and his inability to adapt to what he sees as its threat to his reality or even sanity. Unlike Alice who is constantly besieged with new and startling realities, the poet assumes that he knows all there is to know about the milieu of the sea, and there is nothing about it which strikes his fancy. Nevertheless, the poem is meant to be humorous, as are the two fantasy novels.
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Uses & purposes of silence, non-verbal action & narrative gaps in four Grimm Brothers' fairy tales.... More...
8 Pages / 1800 Words
6 sources, 5 Citations,
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Uses & purposes of silence, non-verbal action & narrative gaps in four Grimm Brothers' fairy tales.
Paper Introduction: The purpose of this research is to examine the role of silence in fairy tales. The plan of the research will be to discuss patterns of silence in fairy tales and then to discuss the means by which these patterns emerge, the consequences to characters of the experience of silence, and complex power of silence as a narrative strategy.
In the unfolding pattern of the plot, silence accomplishes narrative purpose, moving along events by reason of the gap in time that it creates. It is left to the reader's imagination to either fill in the gap or make a jump in narrative logic from one point to another. In "The Water Nixie," there is no absence of events, but the events very much unfold in silence, with the little brother and sister jumping over gaps of time and experience, or more exactly thinking their way through these gaps,
"ENCHANTED PLACES, THE" (CHRISTOPHER ROBIN MILNE). Term Paper ID:23008
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Critical review of autobiography of life as son of A.A. Milne & inspiration for boy who owned Winnie the Pooh in his father's children's books.... More...
7 Pages / 1575 Words
6 sources, 21 Citations,
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Critical review of autobiography of life as son of A.A. Milne & inspiration for boy who owned Winnie the Pooh in his father's children's books.
Paper Introduction: Christopher Robin Milne died on April 20, 1996. He was the original Christopher Robin who owned the stuffed bear called Winnie-the-Pooh and his father A. A. Milne wrote some of the world's most famous children's books about his son and his toy animals. The obituaries for Christopher Milne stressed the fact that the "attention this brought him from Pooh fans didn't always sit well with the real Christopher Robin" ("Transition" 87). But in his autobiography, The Enchanted Places, which deals mainly with his childhood, Milne did not express any dislike for the books. The main problem that he had with his fame was that it was never really his own fame. The question that bothered him the most about the books was whether they had really been written for him, as his father sometimes claimed, or whether he was just the source of an idea that his father could use for his own purposes. In the book Milne tries to understand why it always seemed to him that his father had only pretended to write the books for him.
8 Pages / 1800 Words
3 sources, 9 Citations,
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Examines author's children's books, [Kneeknock Rise], [Herbert Rowbarge] & [Goody Hall]. Techniques, themes, characters, style, irony.
Paper Introduction: Natalie Babbitt published her first book of young adult fiction in 1967. She originally wanted to be an illustrator of children's books rather than a writer, and her teachers had encouraged her to polish her drawing skills at school, where she majored in art. She first illustrated a book written by her husband in 1966 before writing her own book the next year. The style of her writing is direct and spare yet poetic. she is also noted for treating serious subjects with a light touch. An examination of three of her books--Kneeknock Rise, Herbert Rowbarge, and Goody Hall--will show her technique and how successful she is in conveying her themes and ideas in her fiction.
Kneeknock Rise (1970) begins with an introductory passage that embodies the theme to be explored in the remainder of the
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Picture books, elementary readers, poetry, folk tales. Definition. Effects of women's movement; guidelines for non-sexist books.... More...
13 Pages / 2925 Words
24 sources, 25 Citations,
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RACISM IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS. Term Paper ID:9051
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Court cases. Self-image, attitudes, assumptions; fairy tales; Council on Interracial Books.... More...
7 Pages / 1575 Words
13 sources, 18 Citations,
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STORYTELLING IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE. Term Paper ID:5669
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History, famous storytellers & its applied use in the classroom.... More...
7 Pages / 1575 Words
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"THE WONDERFUL FLIGHT TO THE MUSHROOM PLANET" Term Paper ID:5076
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