The 1942 Randolph Caldecott Award belongs to Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey. In Make Way for Ducklings, two ducks travel through Boston, Massachusetts in search of a safe home to raise their family. Through the use of McCloskey’s color pencil drawings, readers go on this journey with the duck family, while learning about the city of Boston. Make Way for Ducklings received the 1942 Caldecott Award because of the dual purpose of the images within the text. Although each image features the duck family, it also depicts and aspect of Boston, Massachusetts. However, the ducks, landmarks, and people within the book are all drawn within proportion to each other. By using this method, McCloskey added realism to the images within Make Way
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To begin with, Angus and the Ducks by Marjorie Flack has an underlying theme which is about isolationism. In the book, Angus is a very curious dog that wants to learn about the things outside of his home. Furthermore, when the opportunity presented itself Angus ran outside to see what was on the other side of the hedge. Moreover, it is important to realize that the hedge represents the division between the United States and the rest of the world. The author wants the audience to recognize what could potentially happen when a country decides to become involved with the political affairs of other countries. One particular example, is given when Angus cannot control his overwhelming curiosity and decides to go under the hedge to see what is on
Margaret Laurence 's novel A Bird in the House is a collection of independent and intertwined short stories written from Vanessa MacLeod 's point of view. As an adult looking back on her childhood, the protagonist examines how she, and essentially everyone in her life, experiences a sense of entrapment and a need to escape. Because the author begins and concludes the novel with the Brick House, the major theme of escape is shown to have developed in Vanessa as she matures through childhood and adolescence and becomes an adult.
"In a little four-room house around the corner. It looks so cozy, so inviting and restful."(79) With this description Chopin introduces the reader to Edna’s new residence, which is affectionately known as the pigeon house. The pigeon house provides Edna with the comfort and security that her old house lacked. The tranquility that the pigeon house grants to Edna allows her to experience a freedom that she has never felt before.
Why does Harriet Bird shoot Roy Hobbs? This is the core question in the book, The Natural, by Bernard Malamud. Harriet Bird, the woman who shoots Roy Hobbs, covers less than one tenth of the book. However, she is definitely a major character since she affects Roy’s entire life. Malamud depicts Harriet as a special and mystical woman. Such portrayal creates tension throughout the novel. The suspense is formed as the author describe the costume and behaviors of Harriet Bird. The suspense draws the attention of the readers while making the novel novel more intriguing and fascinating.
In the Memoir of Jennings Michael Burch “They Cage the Animals at Night”,the story is regarding how Jennings tolerates change in certain points in the book.
In the chronological, descriptive ethnography Nest in the Wind, Martha Ward described her experience on the rainy, Micronesian island of Pohnpei using both the concepts of anthropological research and personal, underlying realities of participant observation to convey a genuine depiction of the people of Pohnpei. Ward’s objective in writing Nest in the Wind was to document the concrete, specific events of Pohnpeian everyday life and traditions through decades of change. While informing the reader of the rich beliefs, practices, and legends circulated among the people of Pohnpei, the ethnography also documents the effects of the change itself: the island’s adaptation to the age of globalization and the survival of pre-colonial culture.
Common sense seems to dictate that we are all going to die one day. As we all get older we crave to keep our youth, and to stay young forever is the ultimate dream. The thought of a possible immortality is just an added benefit. Even though we have strived towards this goal for centuries, have we obtained advances in successfully staying young forever? In Bill Gifford’s book “Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (Or Die Trying)” he explores these ideas of life and aging further. In this novel, he goes on a journey to try and debunk the mysteries and questions behind the new science of aging. He gathers information from tests and scientists from around the country to discover what really works to prevent or delay aging and what is just a hopeful hoax. He helps us figure out why we age and why aging
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In A Bird in the House, Margaret Laurence is able to incorporate many themes and motifs into her stories such as, war, tragedy, religion, and faith. Another theme that is also shown throughout the book is identity, both national and individual identity. National identity is defined as “ a sense of a nation as a cohesive whole, as represented by distinctive traditions, culture, etc.”, while individual identity is what makes a person unique, it is what a person believes, thinks and feels. Sometimes in life identity gets mixed up and can become a confusing aspect of life. People are a product of their environment, which is a factor in shaping identity. The protagonist in the book, Vanessa MacLeod, witnesses and experiences both types of identity. She sees the influence of the Canadian national identity in her Grandfather Connor, Scottish heritage in her Grandmother MacLeod, Irish heritage in her Uncle Dan, which ultimately influence Vanessa’s personal identity.
Both works have similarities. At the beginning of the story, the author describe the setting in the Ugly Duckling place of birth, “the golden corn, the green oats”, and beautiful meadows. This was similar to the description of his native land, Denmark, in his autobiography The True Story of My Life: A Sketch.
Belasco, Susan, and Linck Johnson, eds. The Bedford Anthology of American Literature. Vol. 1, 2nd Ed., Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2014. 1190-1203. Print.
I believe that Duck's poem is revolutionary for its time in the sense that Duck has taken the pastoral form and used it to convey sounds, sights, smells and an overall sense of the realities of rural urban life in the eighteenth-century. He took the form of pastoral poetry, as well as dabbling with the Georgic form, and was bold enough to use its advantages and disadvantages to convey what he felt was `real' urban life, in a period in which was highly influenced by the classics and had a very clear literary hierarchy.
According to Salewski and Bruderer (2007) is the regular, endogenously controlled, seasonal movement of birds between breeding and non-breeding areas. Migration is an adaptation that has been shaped by the natural selection. Birds have likely been migrating for millions of years. Migration continues to be a widespread phenomenon, with more than half of the world’s approximately 10,000 species of birds classified as migrants (Berthold 1998). However, the percentage of bird species that exhibit migratory behavior varies with latitude. The desire of migration is a hereditary impulse. The timing of the migration is usually a mixture of internal and external stimulus. Migration is a dangerous but necessary journey for many birds. Fortunately, they