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Looking For Alibrandi And Winnie The Pooh

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I’m not going to lie, I’m quite scared, and anxious, even terrified, but as Max Lucado once said, “Meet your fear with faith”, both faith in yourself, and faith in the people around you because sometimes a different perspective is a smile away. This belief in others is clearly communicated in Kate Wood’s ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ and beloved children’s book ‘Winnie the Pooh’ by A.A. Milne.
Josie Alibrandi, the protagonist of Looking for Alibrandi, marches through her life without her father, deeming him as useless “just like all dads”, but as her life progresses through her final year of formal education, her entire world turns upside down, illustrating to her the value of a father in her life. Josie’s scholarship schooling, although impressive, …show more content…

This visual metaphor was used to illustrate Josie’s belief on fathers, but as the film progresses, so does her perspective. …show more content…

Winnie the Pooh, although a children’s book, still conveys the value of working off others, as a means of personal growth and changing perspective. Winnie, along with his friends, venture their world and coming together to work off each other’s strengths and weaknesses. Each individual character has a blatant difficult that they struggle with throughout their countless adventures and stories, such as piglet being an anxious mess, and Eeyore struggling to find a reason to even bother doing anything. Yet as their adventures progress, so does their friendship, constantly evolving and adapting, working off each other to grow as people, and overall, change their perspective. A prime example of how each individual assists in changing the perspective of another, is the tale of when Winnie and his friends get lost in the woods. Piglet, being the only one not with them, is terrified of both the dark and the forest, but he conquers his fears, not for himself, but for his friends. He changed what he saw from a nightmare into a plain, old tree. Winnie the Pooh may be a book directed at children, but it still shares the same concepts and beliefs that even the greatest narratives present. Changing perspective can be a difficult process, but with help from others, it can be

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