Monday, August 6, 2007
Down the Rabbit hole...
Or rather an in dept look by Kenneth Kid into Alice and Wonderland, Peter Pan, and The Wizard of Oz. I wasn't sure what to make of this, at first it seemed Kid was saying the writer of Alice and Wonderland, was a pedophile, that used Alice as his muse. Then the article changed into a summary of a GN "The Lost Girls". I have read Alice and Wonder and Peter Pan and the Wizard of Oz, and I do not get the undertones that the author is a pedophile. I feel that if anyone's morals should be brought into question it should be the author of "The Lost Girls", a GN about the main characters of the previously stated works, brought together in a story of sex and no boundaries and horrid happenings. Who thinks about these things, its nasty. Why would you draw conclusions from a story of a little girls dream into some deep dark look into rape and molestation. I think that parts of Wonderland seem a bit out of a little girls dream, like a look into the evils of dreaming. But I think its more a warning that you can't just dream your life away, such as Alice's sister tellers her at the begin. It wears thin on my paycients with these revolutionists writers, keep trying to draw dark sinister meanings out of classic children stories. Just because some children have been raped or molested I highly doubt someone would want to write a children's book about it. Nor do children really understand all that has happened to them or is happening to them tell put in context, usually when they are older. The idea that someone would write such a novel as "The Lost Girls" makes me wonder where our morals in this world have gone. Possibly...down the rabbit hole.
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You are not responding to the analysis of the piece, but instead are fixating on "pedophile" -- in the same way that "bisexual" threw you off in the article from Monday. Focus on the important stuff, ie the analysis or the argument -- not on a misread of the use of culturally loaded words.
what do you mean? she pretty much just gave a summary of the Lost Girl's GN, and gave background on the characters, while starting off by ridiculing the author of Alice in Wonderland.
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