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Travel, Journey (INTRO (Plan (The impact on the children of the story…
Travel, Journey
INTRO
Problem
We can ask ourselves if fictionnal children's journey are an effective way to highlight social ills.
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Hook
A journey can be defined as a way to find answers to your life, existential crisis or problems. Well here, I'm going to talk about children's journey.
PART 1: Historical aspect, a global poverty in these extract
Davis GRUBB's The Night of the Hunter, 1953
From l.18-25 GRUBB explains what is great depression. It started in 1929 in USA. People had no food, no money, parent couldn't feed, stray kids, had to beg for a place to rest and sleep and also for food
Charles LAUGHTON's The Night of the Hunter, 1955 (movie poster)
We can see at the top of the pic a boat and the kids Pearl and John are inside it. It became a very famous scene. The Preacher is at the bottom and he looks like the boogeyman who's scaring kids in horror movies. The colours are very dark, even though in black and white. It's a way to show "darkness" of the story and the madness of the Preacher.
Mark TWAIN's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884
In the second part of this extract, we have Jim who's a 2nd character and a slave. His situation is explained in very simply terms. It helps the reader to understand what is "nigger tradder" l. 101-109. He had to escape from his master's house because of this tradder
CONCLUSION
Final point of view
Children's journey help the reader to understand social ills. They use stuff such as an easy vocabulary, sometimes in a funny way. The fact that the writer use children to portrait these problems is also showing us that even kids can get these problems
Closing Statement
So children's journey related in books is a good way to share to the readers the social ills of the past, or present.
Recap
We saw that in children's journey, there is historical aspects and then that it had an impact on the children of the story.
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