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Monday, April 5, 2010
Be like Mike or Ike or . . .
Here's something the children's department in the library is wondering--What fictional character in children’s literature do you most resemble?
4 comments:
Hotspur
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While I would like to choose a character like Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn or Charles Schulz's Linus van Pelt (yes, I do consider Peanuts to be literature), the sad truth is that these are simply my favorite characters, and although I do identify with them, I do not truly resemble them. For instance, I'm much more of a Charlie Brown than I am a Linus. But if I had to choose only one character from children's literature who I most closely resemble, I would choose the pessimistic Eeyore from A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" stories. While this self-depricating stuffed donkey is the quintessential "Gloomy Gus," full of melancholy and cynicism, he also possesses a good heart and is oftentimes smarter than he is given credit for. His humble signature phrase "thanks for noticin' me" easily could have been the motto for most of my life.
Big fan of both the Peanuts and anyone who resides in The Hundred Acre Woods! You're in good company with folks from either group. :)
I think my obsession (am I revealing too much here?) with a stuffed Velveteen rabbit ties me to the character Trixie from Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems. Knuffle Bunny is a picture book that incorporates photography and illustration to depict a near tragedy when a little girl and her father almost lose her favorite toy.
My rabbit also traveled everywhere with me, and I was inconsolable if faced with the prospects that I would be spending a night without it. In fact I'm starting to feel a little anxious now because I'm not currently sure where the rabbit is stored...
Several years ago I read The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers and I remember identifying a lot with the main character, Frankie Addams. I don't think our personalities are really that similar but at the time I related to the almost unbearable boredom she sometimes felt during her adolescence: the isolation, wishing you could be someone or somewhere else more interesting, and hoping that something, anything, would happen.
I would have to say Franny B Kranny! (Pippi Longstocking from my time) Even though I never particularly liked my hair when I was young, I did "march to the beat of a different drum" for sure!
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Sapphire's Push
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4 comments:
While I would like to choose a character like Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn or Charles Schulz's Linus van Pelt (yes, I do consider Peanuts to be literature), the sad truth is that these are simply my favorite characters, and although I do identify with them, I do not truly resemble them. For instance, I'm much more of a Charlie Brown than I am a Linus. But if I had to choose only one character from children's literature who I most closely resemble, I would choose the pessimistic Eeyore from A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" stories. While this self-depricating stuffed donkey is the quintessential "Gloomy Gus," full of melancholy and cynicism, he also possesses a good heart and is oftentimes smarter than he is given credit for. His humble signature phrase "thanks for noticin' me" easily could have been the motto for most of my life.
Big fan of both the Peanuts and anyone who resides in The Hundred Acre Woods! You're in good company with folks from either group. :)
I think my obsession (am I revealing too much here?) with a stuffed Velveteen rabbit ties me to the character Trixie from Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems. Knuffle Bunny is a picture book that incorporates photography and illustration to depict a near tragedy when a little girl and her father almost lose her favorite toy.
My rabbit also traveled everywhere with me, and I was inconsolable if faced with the prospects that I would be spending a night without it. In fact I'm starting to feel a little anxious now because I'm not currently sure where the rabbit is stored...
Several years ago I read The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers and I remember identifying a lot with the main character, Frankie Addams. I don't think our personalities are really that similar but at the time I related to the almost unbearable boredom she sometimes felt during her adolescence: the isolation, wishing you could be someone or somewhere else more interesting, and hoping that something, anything, would happen.
I would have to say Franny B Kranny! (Pippi Longstocking from my time) Even though I never particularly liked my hair when I was young, I did "march to the beat of a different drum" for sure!
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