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Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
Peter and the Starcatcher Reflection
10 April 2017
Going into this event, I did not know what to expect. While I knew that it had something to do with Peter Pan and I was familiar with that story from previous classes, I did know how it would relate. Even throughout the majority of the play, I struggled to see the connection, until I became aware that it was a prequel to the original Peter Pan story. I began to notice that particular characters from the play were very similar to characters in Peter Pan though were not explicitly called the names of their original characters. Peter Pan was original an orphan boy with no name and the story in the play reveals out Peter Pan becomes his name. I was very unaware that the pirate captain in the story, Black Stache, was in fact Captain Hook in his younger years. I started to realize this halfway through and then my suspicions were confirmed when his arm gets cut off (comically by getting it closed in a treasure chest). It really became clear for ...
This is my summary of the book, 1984. Many major ideas, conflicts and themes are introduced. We are shown how the earth has changed, into 3 main continents. we are also introduced to the main character and how he fits into the new world. Also we are shown how the computer age has taken over peoples' minds. The language is easy to understand, it ha...
Beatriz, la poluci?n Mario Benedetti Dijo el t?o Rolando que esta ciudad se est? poniendo imbancable de tanta poluci?n que tiene. Yo no dije nada para no quedar como burra, pero de toda la frase s?lo entend? la palabra ciudad. Despu?s fui al diccionario y busqu? la palabra imbancable y no est?. El domingo, cuando fui a v...
There are many things that could be said about the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, '.' The fact that Hester can see the devil in her own daughter's eyes, and the way that Dimmesdale torments himself nightly with tools of pain. It is like an almost incurable disease that rips apart at their lives. I think that the focus of this book is, Guilt can rip...
The passage of adolescence has served as the central theme for many novels, but J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, long a staple in academic lesson plans, has captured the spirit of this stage of life in hyper-sensitive form, dramatizing Holden Caulfield's vulgar language and melodramatic reactions. Written as the autobiographical account of a...
Have you ever felt that the people you love are perfect, and then came to realize they are not? In the realistic fiction novel Babyface by Norma Fox Mazer, Toni Chessmore thinks her life is perfect. She has great friends, loving parents and lots of good luck. People even call her Toni- Luck. But when her best friend moves away and her sister tell...
