ENG 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ashdown Forest, Telling Stories, Inductive Reasoning
27 Sep 2016
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Alan alexander milne, english writer, poet and playwright. Fought in both world wars and sometime critic of war. The characters are based on his son, christopher. The hundred acre wood is based on a section of ashdown forest in south-east england. Winnie-the-pooh is names after a canadian black bear, winnie, who was in turn named after the city of winnipeg. The bear was a mascot during the first world war. Pooh comes from a swan the milnes played with. Milne produced work in a variety of styles and genres, and did not consider himself primarily a children"s writer. The real christopher robin also resented the books as an adult, since he saw them as an exploitation of his childhood. The events of the stories are derived from a combination of the games the real christopher. Robin played with his toys and the stories his father told him. Memories in the story are memories of what being a child is like.
