Allusion In Peter Pan

Children’s literature is the precedent for the development of all children. Children’s literature varies from poetry to children’s picture books. Every aspect of children’s literature gives an ability to grow a child mentally and develop their ideas and imagination. In early literature, children were romanized to be perfect and well behaved. Author Maurice Sendak counters the idea of a perfect child in his book “Where The Wild Things Are”. Sendak uses his picture book to illustrate a child’s ability to have feelings of anger, resentment, and frustration. The interviewer, Patrick F. Roughen of Red Feather Journal states that“Where the Wild Things Are (1963) contains some of the earliest attempts in children’s literature to represent the intrapsychic challenges of the lives of children. Anger, frustration, and the complexities of parent-child relationships can be found throughout its pages”. “Where the Wild Things Are” reinforces the idea that children are capable of emotions that one would imagine are only depicted in the adult world.

Shel Silverstein is an accomplished poet, cartoonist, songwriter, and playwright that has made an impact on children’s literature in ways that one could never imagine. Silverstein’s quirky writing style and fun black and white cartoons attached to his poems, drew many kids to enjoy his poetry even though they did not have happy endings. Many young children thrive on the notion of happy endings always being the end result, but Silverstein was able to create literature without this ¨perfect¨ ending while still being widely popular in the 20th century and continued into the 21st century. The reasoning behind Silverstein’s lack of a utopian environment and atmosphere is due to the experiences he has encountered, therefore, causing him to destroy

Bradbury’s style throughout his story aids in portraying his theme of technology’s harmful effects. Irony is a one of the stylistic devices that he uses. When a person thinks of a nursery, he pictures a safe, happy place where children can play with their siblings and parents. In this story however, Bradbury keeps the

Many times in history people have been corrupted with power. In the short story “The Veldt” the author, Ray Bradbury uses many different useful craft moves such as similes, metaphors, and foreshadowing to help make the story feel like there is a bigger meaning to it than it portrays. The craft moves that Ray uses make ¨The Veldt¨ more than just a creepy short story. The story has a room called the nursery, it can turn into whatever the kids want. But the kids have too much power with this room. They end up killing their parents by locking them into the hot, lion infested Africa. Since Bradbury has added these craft moves he has made ¨The Veldt¨ a story that people can debate and talk about what Ray was trying to show in this story. He made the story into something that people can relate to and be interested in.

Another example from, The Veldt, would be when the psychologist saw the nursery and became very concerned about the children's state of mind " 'You've let this room and this house replace you and your wife in your children's affections. This room is their mother and father, far more important in their lives than their real parents.' " When Bradbury included this through the psychologist, because he was trying to get through to the audience that the parents had let technology do their job while they did nothing for so long that in their own children's brains, they don’t see their parents as parents any more. So, that’s why they have a hard time doing what the parents say, because in the children's brains, they are having a battle with themselves over if they should follow their true parents' orders or to disobey. Most of the time, they take the latter.

Through the use of irony in the HappyLife home, Bradbury demonstrates the notion that although the home included “everything” the Hadley family “could ever need,” the home could not imitate the human emotion and nurturing that is needed for a truly meaningful life (Bradbury 1). The Hadley parents, George and Lydia, did not feel that human interaction was necessary, but rather that an expensive, state-of-the-art home could provide anything they could ever want. Bradbury emphasizes the idea that the Hadley family was provided for when he states that “They walked down the hall of their HappyLife Home, which had cost them thirty thousand dollars

Throughout the years, people think they have gained happiness from their materialistic things. In this story, Ray Bradbury creates a family that is particularly wealthy through material possessions and how they become dispersed through the possessions they own. However, in Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Veldt” he emphasizes that utilizing materialistic things can actually result in terrible harm. Through the use of symbolism, irony, and foreshadowing, Ray Bradbury establishes the idea that overindulging in materialistic possessions can result in grave consequences.

In “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, Bradbury focused on multiple craft moves such as similes, dialogue, and foreshadowing to show different ways to describe the story throughout the book. In the story there is a nursery that is controlled by the children who live in the house. The nursery is in this very advanced house that does everything for them. The children's parents want to get rid of the house to live a normal life but their children don’t like that because they love the nursery. Eventually the children's rage of the parents taking the nursery away ends with them killing their parents. The craft moves show the arguments, descriptions and foreshadowing to show the reader how spoiled the children really are.

While Moses is up at the Mountain of Sinai receiving the 10 Commandments from God, the people began to become worried. They urged Aaron, their temporary leader, to make an idol because they believed that Moses had either died or left them. As a result, Aaron melted their gold earrings and created a golden calf, which the people began to worship. The Lord of the Flies by George Orwell alludes to the story of the Golden Calf, where the pig’s head served as the “golden-calf”. The pig’s head symbolizes the root of evil and corruption in humanity; sin.

Many people have witnessed a toddler having a meltdown in public only to have a parent sooth them by giving in to the child’s demand. Although sometimes this can be a beneficial parenting technique, if a parent over-indulges a child too often, then that child can become spoiled. However in “The Veldt”, Ray Bradbury challenges the idea of satisfying children; he suggests through his tragic tale of the spoiled and undisciplined children Wendy and Peter, that over-indulged kids will be taught to not value their family. Through the use of spoiling kids, harms of technology, and conflict, Ray Bradbury shows children need to be disciplined in order to be well-rounded individuals.

Furthermore, reading that the character Peter Pan was introduced by the author in his earlier novel in a story told to a young boy David by a bachelor wanting to lay with him. The realisation that this may indeed be written to 'fulfill adult desires ' grows.

Peter Pan is a timeless tale in which transcends time and culture through its’ underlying themes. Each of the characters fulfilled their roles tremendously, and was able to bring forth these themes in their own unique ways.

In William Golding's Lord Of The Flies, the boys on the island come in contact with many different elements that symbolize ideas. Golding demonstrates that when human beings do not have rules, authority, and a government they allow their natural savage instinct to take over. Through the use of symbolism, Golding uses the Conch, The Painted faces of the boys, and Piggy’s glasses to portray this thesis.

The nursery has disadvantages for the children as George and Lydia can see an idea of what is going on with their children’s mind. As

Every night, after a long, tiresome day in second grade, I would curl up in bed and beg my Mother to read me one of my favorite books, Peter Pan. There was something always magical about Peter Pan that helped me escape the daily events of the real world. Whether it was his capability to fly, difficulty to find his shadow, or ability to never grow old, the story of Peter Pan has stuck with me and has helped shaped me into who I am today.