Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Article B)

The article Alice, Huck, Pinocchio and the Blue Fairy: Bodies Real and Imagined by M.L. Rosenthal is about the relevance between each book and their author’s life, specifically their childhood memories. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at first glance, according to Rosenthal, is a children’s book about a young girl trying to learn more about life. However, after interpreting it, Rosenthal states that the details in the story suggest "a grown man's nightmare of symbolic sexual failure rather more than they do a little girl's frustrated effort to learn more about life". The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a story in which the character, Huckleberry or "Huck" is the exact portrayal of the author, Samuel Langhorne Clemens or Mark Twain which is his "pen name". In the article it says that Mark Twains character, Huck, is the best example of his own life. Huck is the perfect character to describe Mark Twain during his childhood. Pinocchio is another story whose main character depicts the author. This article states that each author has a significant relevance to each character because essentially it is the author.

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