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Mature Themes in Children's Literature, 2002.
Discussion of the beneficial role children's literature can play in helping children cope with stressful situations.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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Summary: Children's literature can be useful in aiding children in this aspect of their growth. In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the representation of death, and the fear of death, plays a prominent role in terms of character, plot and setting. The character of Harry Potter is defined, from the outset of the book, by the death of his parents.
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Gender Patterns in Children's Literature, 2003.
Explores gendered patterns of maturation in children's literature.
1,615 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper explores the patterns of maturation found in children's literature with reference to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. It finds that in modern children's literature the typical gender roles are reversed, with Harry acting on behalf of society (typically a female pattern) and Charlotte maturing as an individual (typically male pattern). Anne of Green Gables and Treasure Island are used to display the typical patterns.
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"In children's literature gender roles have been laid quite clearly. These patterns exist from the early fairy tales to present day novels. Recently some authors have attempted to reverse the typical gender roles of characters; giving male protagonists more passive and nurturing characteristics, and females greater abilities to become active individuals. This is particularly apparent in stories about maturation."
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Children's Literature, 2005.
This paper examines "Hana's Suitcase" and "The Paper Bag Princess" as both employing a mature theme of survival.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper analyzes the mature theme of survival as discussed in Rebecca Lukens' work "The Critical Handbook of Children's Literature." Using "Hana's Suitcase" and "The Paper Bag Princess" as examples, the paper looks closely at the plot, characterization and setting of these two works in order to determine the mature theme and its effects upon the readers.
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"Children's literature can often be a source of education for children and this instruction can either be personal or school-related data. Rebecca Lukens, author of "A Critical Handbook of Children's Literature," explains how themes can be instrumental in this education. Some pieces of children's literature, such as "Hana's Suitcase" and "The Paper Bag Princess" have included such mature themes to engage their readers in their stories. The mature theme of survival, as found in the texts of "Hana's Suitcase" by Karen Levine and "The Paper Bag Princess" by Robert Munsch, is illustrated through the use of plot, character and setting. The plot of "Hana's Suitcase" shows examples of the mature theme of survival. As Lukens states, the theme is "one that enlarges our understanding and the one we discover for ourselves" (93)."
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Maturation in the Children's Novel, 2002.
Explores the theme of maturity in three class children's texts.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper compares three classic children's novels and discusses the theme of maturity in them. How is a change in the characters' maturity reflected by their behavior or their environment? The novels discussed are: "Alice in Wonderland", "The Wind In the Willows" and "The Secret Garden".
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Maturation in 20th Century American Literature, 2004.
This paper discusses maturation, a common theme in 20th century American literature, as found in Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat", John Steinbeck's "Flight", Zora Neale Hurston's "The Gilded Six Bits" and Richard Wright's "The Man Who was Almost a Man".
1,460 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 48.95
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This paper explains that these maturation novels are a genre of literature called Bildungsroman, German for "formation novel", in which the main character usually is involved in a crisis and ends up recognizing his role in the world, a process that is usually typical of the maturation of the character throughout the story. The author points out that in these stories the process is an intellectual and moral growth: "The Open Boat", the growth is caused by experience, allowing the correspondent to finally feel the loss of the soldier through his comrade; "Flight", the growth takes place in the journey of a boy too eager to be a man; "The Gilded Six Bits" a full transformation from boy to man takes place as the character learns to deal with his emotions, feelings and responsibility; "The Boy Who was Almost a Man", the character never quite fully completes the maturity process, but the reader is taken through his bumpy ordeal. The paper concludes that all of these growths are very real and natural, leaving the reader with a new sense of understanding in this process of self-development and change.
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"In Wright's "The Man Who was Almost a Man," the journey of maturing into manhood is left unfinished. Dave Saunders, although thinking otherwise, never becomes a man. Dave sees men in the field one-day shooting, so he decides to purchase a gun. He associates the obtaining of a gun with becoming a man; to him the gun represents manhood. The pistol also has phallic connotation as well. After accidentally shooting the mule, Dave is not received by the other men around him, causing him to run away in search of acknowledgment somewhere else. He practices shooting, hesitant at first with his eyes closed and his head turned, he fires the pistol. It isn't until after he has fired the pistol that he realizes it wasn't as scary as he made it out to be. Once he overcomes this small hurdle he immediately feels he is a man."
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Home and Away, 2003.
Examines maturation, exploration and triumph outside the family home in children's literature.
1,162 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper shows how children's literature portrays how it is essential for young adults to leave home in order to mature. It explores this theme in relation to books for very young children like "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" (Beatrix Potter), novels directed at male audiences like "The Tale of Huckleberry Finn" (Mark Twain), and literature aimed at female readers such as "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" (Avi).
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"The process of maturation in children's literature is often characterized by a character's departure from the family home. Frequently this change of environment acts as a catalyst for the character's growth. This is in part created because authors of children's literature often portray the family home as unstable, strict, and at times even abusive. Due to this fact, the protagonists must venture out on their own in order to find themselves as individuals and experience life to its fullest. This is true in many forms of children's literature, from picture books, such as Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit, to novels written primarily for boys, like The Adventures of Huck Finn, and to those for girls, like The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Frequently the characters in literature for young adults need to explore outside the family home, which is often characterized as threatening and stifling, in order to begin the maturation process."
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Freud on Art and Literature, 2001.
The paper looks at Freud?s conceptions about art and literature and the creative forces of motivation on an author.
2,953 words (approx. 11.8 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 87.95
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This paper is about Sigmund Freud's concept of 'unconscious' and its relevance in the arts. The author discusses how Freud is commonly recognized as having invented the concept of the ?unconscious?. The author explaines that the subordination of the ?pleasure principle? by the ?reality principle? is done through a mental process that Freud refers to as sublimation. According to Sigmund Freud, dreams and fantasies (or phantasies) are the symbolic expression and fulfillment of wishes and desires that as a result of sublimation by the ?reality principle? cannot be fulfilled through daily life and are consequently repressed into the ?unconscious.? To Freud, ?the motive forces of fantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single fantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality? (Freud 485). Freud affirms that dreams are disguised, hallucinatory fulfillment?s of repressed wishes. He concludes that if expressed in undisguised form, they would be so disturbing that it would wake the dreamer from sleep. Freud?s fundamental assumption is that the sublimation of the artist?s unsatisfied libido is responsible for producing all forms of art and literature whether it be painting, sculpting, or writing. David H. Richter notes in his introduction to ?Sigmund Freud? that Freud was once criticized by Carl Gustav Jung, a fellow psychoanalytic theorist, for insinuating that artists were diseased individuals creating art out of their own personal neurotic needs. The writer feels that Freud insinuates that art is primarily an escapist method, that ?in an ideal world in which everyone had matured sufficiently to replace the pleasure principle by the reality principle, there would be no need for art? (Storr 103).
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"The historical tradition of scholarly theory has been one in which literary texts are subjected to scrutiny regarding whether they are either implicitly or explicitly ideological in nature. Arguably so, nothing reflects a society?s fears, hopes, and desires about gender, class, and power more than what the society maintains about art and artists. A literary text is credible of fully reflecting the culture in which it was written, that is to say, it has the potential to embody certain sociological assumptions presented in the dichotomy between ?normal? and ?abnormal.? Sigmund Freud, the patriarch of psychoanalysis, is associated with Charles Darwin and Karl Marx as being ?one of the three original thinkers who have most altered man?s view of himself in the twentieth century? (Storr 145). Yet, even literary theorists, including Freud, realized that ?any comprehensive vision of human nature such as he provides must have implications for the nature of happiness, and for the relation of man?s natural capacities to his normal or ideal state? (Sousa 196). That is, numerous later theorists and critics believe that Freud?s own theories about the function and nature of the mind uncovered some fundamental truths about how an individual?s notions of ?self? are formed and how culture and civilization operate and are affected by these notions. Coinciding with Freud?s own account, the significance of everyday action is determined by motives that are far more numerous and complex than people are aware of or commonsense understanding takes into account. The most basic and constant of motives that influence our actions are those of the unconscious, moreover, those that are difficult to acknowledge or avow. Freud?s conception of the unconscious and his rediscovery of the importance of dreams encouraged painters, sculptors and writers to pay serious attention to their inner world of dreams; to find significance in thoughts and images they previously would have dismissed as absurd or illogical. Therefore it is plausible that notions of art and literature as described by Sigmund Freud, are created through the ramifications of the unconscious or the sublimation of an unsatisfied carnal appetite."
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"There Are No Children Here" by Alex Kotlowitz, 2004.
This paper discusses Alex Kotlowitz's book,"There Are No Children Here," which is about childhood in the Henry Horner projects of Chicago where children are not free to be children.
1,655 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper explains that, at the Henry Horner homes, children are not looking to come over and play with the latest Matchbox cars because many of the children are already being lured by gangs and getting used by older kids in drug activities; friends are people you could trust, but at Henry Horner, Lafeyette, the child character in the book, didn't feel that he could trust anyone besides his family. The author points out that, to the kids of Henry Horner, the police become a threat because, even if they aren't doing something bad, they are constantly surrounded by bad things; therefore, if they are in the wrong place at the wrong time, they are immediately accused of doing something. The paper relates that children at Henry Horner are desensitized to experiences such as violence, gang drug exchanges, and death; the children and the residents there have to put their emotions away and become stone on the inside.
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"In an area where the summertime is feared and school is a safe-haven, where it is dangerous to make friends as they might try to lure you into a gang, where drug lords run your neighborhood enforcing rules like a dictatorship with the manpower to back it up, you are stripped of your freedom. Sitting in public with a little kid can be embarrassing sometimes. "Mommy, that woman is fat!" or "Daddy, why is that man crying?" are questions that children will ask loud and clear without hesitation. They don't realize that other people can hear them or that other people have feelings that might be hurt. They are egocentric. However, for a child living in the Henry Horner homes where LaJoe and her children live, a comment like this can become life threatening."
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Parents and Children, 2002.
This paper discusses the obligations of parents to children and children to parents in "The Metamorphosis", "Upstairs in a Wineshop", and "Endgame".
1,370 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper explores the relationship between parents and children in "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, "Upstairs in a Wineshop" by Lu Xun and "Endgame" by Samuel Beckett. All three works support the contention that parents must satisfy the needs of their children, and children must satisfy the needs of their parents. The author shows how all three works illustrate this thesis in different ways.
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. The Metamorphosis
III. Upstairs in a Wineshop
IV. Endgame
V. Conclusion
Bibliography
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"In The Metamorphosis, Kafka tells the story of Gregor, a man who wakes up one day to find that he has turned into a bug. Gregor has been working hard at a job that he clearly hates to support his parents and sisters. His parents owe Gregor?s boss money because of a failed business, and he is determined to keep working until the money is paid back. At the same time, he keeps his family in a large apartment with a maid. Gregor tries to make enough money so that his parents do not have to work. After his transformation, his primary concern is for his family?s well-being. How will they survive without him? Clearly Gregory feels a strong obligation to look after his parents. His parents feel the same way towards him, especially his mother. She is horrified at the sight of him, but forces herself to visit him. Gregor, for his part is upset because the sight of him causes her pain. Gregor?s mother also tries to keep Gregor?s things in his room so that he will feel more at home. It can be argued that Gregor?s father is hostile towards him, but consider the fact that he does not throw Gregor out."
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Television violence and its impact on children, 2002.
An exploration of the impact that television violece has on the development of children and how children react to the violence.
3,034 words (approx. 12.1 pages), 19 sources, MLA, $ 89.95
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This paper explores the topic of television violence and the impact it has on children. In recent years there have been increasing allegations that television violence is having a negative impact on child development. The writer begins with an overview of the problem, looking at specific examples of television in America. Next, the paper defines some key terms for understanding the topic as well as providing a background about why this topic is important to society. The writer concludes by arguing that children are not developmentally advanced enough to separate fantasy from reality and that the increased violence they are seeing on television is creating more violent and aggressive children.
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"In recent years there have been increasing allegations that television violence has a negative impact on child development . There have been school shootings, children acting out both at home and in classrooms and other developmental traits that have been laid and the feet of television violence".
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Children's Poetry, 2002.
An overview of poetic genres in children's poetry and how children relate/react to poetry.
960 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper looks at how poetry is a useful form of literature for children, intellectually and emotionally. It discusses the creative use of language, which is specialized to stimulate the imagination and arouse feelings of readers, especially children.
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"Narrative poetry evokes emotions that represent the mood or feeling of the work, rather than that of the poet. This type of poetry was often used orally to relate new or events to others and in written form it is read like a story. Although some narrative poems (such as epics and romances) are too sophisticated for young readers, ballads are an appropriate form for this age level. Originally designed for an illiterate people, ballads are easily remembered and adaptable for singing or recitation. Although some ballads are ancient and difficult for children to relate to, ?old ballads do serve to transport children to a more primitive past, to wilderness, to feudalism, to a time quite different from their own, yet not without flavorsome, musical, language.? The appeal of these ballads is often in the use of language, which evokes a mood or emotions."
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Social Children, 2002.
An examination of the social development of children and their interaction with other children.
1,851 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper offers a brief survey of social child development over the years. It looks at how at each age a child needs to develop essential social skills in order to interact with fellow children. It looks at potential problems in social child development and the importance of age-appropriate stimulation for children.
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"Social skills develop gradually over time from the simple parallel play of two year olds to the playground games of elementary students, to social stratifications of high school. At all ages, however, the child must interpret the social milieu accurately and choose age-appropriate responses (Walker, 2002), and appropriate responses at one age will be inappropriate at another age."
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Brazil's Street Children, 1991.
This paper discusses the economic, moral, political and social forces that are creating homeless poor children, the street children of Brazil.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 9 sources, $ 79.95
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'This paper will be concerned with the street children of Brazil and the social, economic and moral problems they pose in terms of development. Like the other nations of Latin America, Brazil has been seriously concerned with the problems of social and economic development. Brazil has great potential for economic growth, as seen in its mineral resources and its numerous coffee and sugarcane plantations. However, development does not necessarily imply economic growth. Development may be defined as "the maximum use of a nation's potential for the greatest benefit of the largest number of its inhabitants". In the case of Brazil, the great wealth of the nation has been exploited by only a minority of the population. By contrast, large segments of Brazilian society live in dire poverty. Over the past few decades, many rural citizens have moved to the large cities of ... "
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Children's Voices in Literature, 2008.
A look at three children's books: E. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" and "The House at Pooh Corner", and C.S. Lewis' "The Magician's Nephew" and how they reflect children of that period.
2,656 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 79.95
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This paper looks at children's literature in Great Britain in the first half of the 20th century and considers whether children's books of that time gave access to the voices of children of that time. The books consulted are E.E. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" and "The House at Pooh Corner", and C.S. Lewis's "The Magician's Nephew". In conclusion, the author of this paper states that even in books written about children and for children, children seem to be all but mute due partly to the various agendas of their authors.
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"The first half of the 20th century was a dynamic and volatile time historically for Great Britain, given that during this time Great Britain played a primary role in two world wars, and also that - at the time - it was the most dominant nation in the world, with a huge colonial empire that spanned the globe. By the end of this period, Great Britain had begun to be eclipsed by the USA, as the USA leveraged its scientific and military might to gain global ascendancy. Also during this period began the huge changes associated with decolonization, as nation after nation claimed independence. This of course had a massive impact on Great Britain, as her colonial possessions were part of what made the British nation rich, powerful and strong. All in all, it was a time in which British power and control was slipping away. Yet at the same time, many Brits still retained a self-image of themselves as rulers of the world, and assumed that British standards of morality, decency and behaviors were universally valid (Cannon). This self-image, as we shall see, comes through more clearly in children's books than do the authentic voices of children."
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Advertising to Children, 2005.
This paper discusses the reaction of three interviewed children to television advertising of products of interest to children.
1,605 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper explains that children react to advertisements similarly to the way adults react (1) by absorbing subconsciously sensory data, such as slogans or jingles, and (2) by associating certain emotional responses with certain products; however, children, especially young children, do not possess cognitive skills sufficient to understand fully the impact of advertising on their impulses. The author points out that three children frequently peppered their interviews about products, which the children had seen advertised recently on television with "I want..[a specific brand]..", demonstrating that television commercials stimulate the consumer instinct and create brand awareness. The paper relates that advertising draws children's attention away from those products that are not advertised on television.
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"Advertising does create awareness of products that the kids might not have otherwise known about. The nine-year old, for example, said, "Oh, oh, I want the Barbie radio!" When I asked her if any of her friends had the product she said no, that she just saw it on television. Wanting was expressed linguistically and straightforwardly by all three children: all three used simple language to convey that they coveted or craved items they had seen on television. Even negative responses to television commercials were expressed through language of "wanting." A few of the three children used the word "need" in conjunction with what they had seen on television, except for the nine-year old who said that she "needed" some accessory toys for her doll, but not because she had seen them in a commercial. The twelve-year old, when talking about the Play Station commercials she had seen said that she "needed" to get a new game console because hers was old."
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