Comedy In Children's Books
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This 7 page paper explores the ideas concerning children's comedy and how it is seen in certain books. Bibliography lists 18 sources.
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Comic Book Culture
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5 pages in length. The charm of comic books embraces the combination of fantasy and escapism, two elements of life that do not exist in reality. Clearly, to be a kid with a stack of comic books on a Saturday afternoon is to hold the entire world in your hands – a world that is filled with excitement, danger and super heroes who possess extraordinary characteristics and perform amazing feats. Comic books are not meant to replace reality, but rather they insert a small yet potent imaginary episodes into which an individual can dissolve when fantasy and escapism beckon. No bibliography.
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Comparative Analysis of Four Works by Writer Gary Paulsen
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This 4 page report discusses five of young adult fiction writer Gary Paulsen novels -- Hatchet, The River, Brian’s Winter, Brian’s Return, and The Haymeadow. Four of them are directly related to one another and tell the story of Brian Robeson, a teenager who survives a plane crash, survives the wilderness, and then chooses to leave society to return the natural world he came to love and respect. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Dealing with Death Using “Charlotte’s Web” and “Bridge to Terebithia”
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A 5 page paper looking at these two children’s books by E.B. White and Katherine Paterson, respectively, in terms of their treatment of death. The paper provides a detailed synopsis of both works, and argues that reading books such as these helps children come to terms with the presence of death in their own lives. No additional sources.
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Don’t Be Deceived by Appearances: A Critical Analysis of Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont’s “Beauty and the Beast”
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A 4 page paper which argues that this tale emphasizes the importance of looking beyond appearances to the person within. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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DR. SEUSS ALIAS THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL
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A 5 page paper. Under the pseudonym of Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel became the most well-known and most beloved writer of children's literature. Geisel was a man who was personally concerned about numerous world and national issues, many of which became messages in his books. This essay discusses Geisel's Dr. Seuss books in general and then provides an analysis of the messages found in two of his works. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Dreamspeaker vs. Tuck Everlasting
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A 9 page paper on these two young adult books. Both the books have many similarities and these similarities are illustrated throughout the paper. They both maintain a sense of the unbelievable much like science fiction as well as their similarities in terms of philosophies and ethics. It remains important through each separate novel that people are intrinsically the same and that underneath the fear and lack of trust we are all connected.
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Eoin Colfer’s “Artemis Fowl”
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A 3 page example book report of Eoin Colfer’s novel “Artemis Fowl” the first book. No additional sources cited.
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Evolution of Children's Literature From Fantasy to Postmodern
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An 8 page paper which examines how children's literature has evolved, with a gradual balance between psychological and imaginative contents to everyday situations and materialism. Specifically considered will be early fantasy literature, in the form of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe;" the later fantasy of Susan Cooper's "The Dark is Rising," Penelope Farmer's "Charlotte Sometimes;" the modernist narrative of Peter Dickinson's "Bone From a Dry Sea," Sue Gough's "Wyrd," and the postmodernist narrative of Francesca Lia Block's "Weetzie Bat," and Stephen Chbosky's "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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