ENGL 202 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Peter Rabbit, Major Depressive Disorder, The Giver
ENGL 202
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Peter Rabit
- 1902
- pocket book
- Potter ade pulishers realise the potetial of the hildre’s lit arket
- Potters disproval by parents in terms of career shown through peter → longing for
freedom
- Hindrances of parental authority
- Stranger danger
- Single parent and lack of father leads peter to be able to get up to and be more
mislead
- Father killed by mr macgregor
- First image contrast signifies change into fantasy world and movement out of safe
zone
- Change of peter into human clothes shows a longing to fit in and compliments image
where he is facing the other way.
- Shrinking of Vignette → emphasizes scariness
- Animal reference to children
- Mother → son relationship shows lack of male role model and parental struggle
Themes:
Social restriction – does’t eessarily validate authority
Father figure missing no authority
be yourself
change from real to fantasy
odd one out not paying attention – also only boy??? Gender stereotype boys mischief.
Conformity to social norms
environmental impact of us on animals- human is the devil, harsh for a childrens book,
humans are bad
BEATRIX POTTER
- Another work by her is 3 bad mice 1904
- Originally wrote peter rabbit for sick friends son to cheer him up
- Unable to find work in Victorian era so turned to writing. Attempted to study fungus
Where the wild things are
- Time skewed shows time representation of kids and lack of reality
- Food → suppliance of food from mother and oral stage in development
- Story grows images expand → childs mid and imagination as well as power and
strength → change back to reality
- Wolf suit → kids animal reference and civilization, each element changes into
something else in the book when he goes to the jungle
- Result of rules gave opportunity for imagination, role of parental influence of
hildre’s groth ad life
- Natural products --> human civilization → fantasy brings back to natural → human
produts. Purity of the hild’s id
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- He still is young and can still grow and has a huge iagiatio, he is’t ature,
aturatio of ature ito thigs e a use. He’s id is still ra ad ioet.
- Power fantasy, standing and sitting contrast, how he sees authority
- e ill eat you up- e loe you so shos hat he said to his u was not a
threat it was out of love, affection → animal and children relationship of expression
of emotions.
- Piture o all he likes they’re his est frieds, portrays a sese of loeliess l,
escaping from reality. He feels like he is one of them because he is dressing like that.
John Newbery
1744 Switch from trying to teach to trying to entertain
Pocket book became first entry into commercial literature
- start the modern childrens lit genre.
- short little stories/poems and jokes rather than large books and things like today
- newbery medal named after him, commemorates his role in the origins
J.K. Rolling – rought hildre lit out of depressio i ’s. rought a reaissae.
19th century collection of fairytales → thought as for children rather than folk tales
- rother’s Gri pulished sholarly additios of gera fairytales.
- “urprised he part of audiee as’t sholars they ere parets
- Recognized commercial successs and published smaller additions without sex and
violence for children
- first additio i Eglish of gri’s fairytales
- fairytales big influence in childrens lit → slightly longer, introduced magical and
fantasy into childrens lit
- 1851 publication of first English language original fairytale (the king of the golden
river)→ john Ruskin
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Document Summary
Potter (cid:373)ade pu(cid:271)lishers realise the pote(cid:374)tial of the (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)"s lit (cid:373)arket. Potters disproval by parents in terms of career shown through peter longing for freedom. Single parent and lack of father leads peter to be able to get up to and be more mislead. First image contrast signifies change into fantasy world and movement out of safe zone. Change of peter into human clothes shows a longing to fit in and compliments image where he is facing the other way. Mother son relationship shows lack of male role model and parental struggle. Conformity to social norms environmental impact of us on animals- human is the devil, harsh for a childrens book, humans are bad. Another work by her is 3 bad mice 1904. Originally wrote peter rabbit for sick friends son to cheer him up. Unable to find work in victorian era so turned to writing. Time skewed shows time representation of kids and lack of reality.
