Type 400+ words here, analyzing your selected short story or book with the Critical Lenses. You may use any combination of the Marxist, Feminist, & Freudian Lenses.
Include both of your names and the title and author of your short story or children's book.
Analyze as deeply and critically as possible. Use at least five terms from the "Critical Lenses 101" yellow handout to earn more points. Indicate which exact lenses you are using. Indicate how the yellow handout helps you think more critically.
Analyze as deeply as I did with The Paper Bag Princess, I Know a Rhino, and Princess Smartypants. Go way beyond/below the obvious. A surface interpretation will not be accepted. Summarize very little--only when necessary to communicate your interpretations.
Perhaps you will analyze Edgar Allan Poe's master narrative, "The Cask of Amontillado" (picture above).
72 comments:
Chloe Shoup, Jenna Pike, Jessica Olson
(Our book is Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Suess) We found a lot of lenses on each page. On page one we found that the main character is a boy which is femnist lens because they chose a boy over a girl. He's yellow like the sun and the sun lights up his paths. On page five it's marxist lens on the whole page. Having brains is power and power is superiority. All the monsters noses are pointing in the same way to the direction that he should be going for his future. Page seven has boobs on the land and he's lonely and it's showing that the right way may be a struggle. Page nine is marxist and it shows a rich palace and that he's leading to the palace. Page 15 makes it seems that he is better than everyone and the hot air balloons are going towards the same pathway. Page 17 is all about death and going through the hard times. Page 19 shows monsters trying to attack him going through his path but how it's the right path. Page 23 has rips and shows a lot of hangings. Page 25 there are guys in front who are nuts and have hats on, showing marxist lens. Pg. 29 shows that he and the others are number one leading towards a rich palace. Page 31 shows his fame and how he gets it by winning, being rich, and getting points which shows marxist lens. Page 33 he doesn't know the right direction with the compass pointing every way and he's getting let down because he followed the wrong path. Page 35 the monster is attacking and that is showing scary situations in life. Page 37 is slowing down life and stating that it might be hard to get up in life. Page 39 is showing a butt = fredian lens. Page 41 shows the path and how he can go against the normal and it's marxist lens because the necklace the monsters are wearing are happy and rich and wearing not a necklace shows poor and sad. Page. 43 shows he is moving mountains and telling kids that they can do it making this book a positive one and Page 45 shows freedom and that every kid can do it! Hurray!
Ashley Christensen, Emily Stirling
The book we picked is “Love, Splat” by Rob Scotton. The first lens we used was the Feminist lens. In this book you see that the girl Splat is in love with; over powers him. Something’s she does to overpower him is: bending his tail, poking him, calling him smelly, making fun of him for his tummy rumbling and pulling his ears. With this you can see that Spat is easily overtaken. Also Kitten is as we call it “popular”. Because of this he has to compete harder against Spike. The second lens we used was the Marxist lens. Spike (the other cat that competes for Kitten) has a bigger Valentine’s Day card for her. This represents that Spike has more money than Splat because when we think of larger cards we think of the money that was spent. When Splat draws a heart Spike has to draw a bigger heart because it shows his love for her. In this school Splat is the only black cat. Also Splat is the only one who is not wearing any clothes, because of this one gets the feeling that he cannot afford clothes. Splat’s best friend, Seymour, happens to be a mouse. This is ironic because usually the cat eats the mouse. This shows that he cannot be mean and he has no power. Also this mouse has more influence on Splat, because he keeps on questioning him about Kitten. Next we pointed out the names in the story. First is Splat, we thought of it as being flat to the ground and nonexistent. Second is Kitten, this name is boring, original, and feminine. This name is feminine because when one thinks of Kitten they think of girls. Last is Spike, his name signifies that he is poking Splat and this causes him to deflate. Some other items that we noticed are, that there is a rubber duck on the first five pages. This means that he is a child and he needs a security blanket. We also noticed that Seymour the mouse’s tail is shaped in a heart meaning that he is the peacemaker. His tail also is transformed into a question mark, meaning that he is confused of why Kitten is treating Splat like that. On another page his tail is shaped like a heartbeat monitor and then goes flat because Splat and the mouse are growing apart. The moral of the story is that kids can be friends with anyone like Splat and the mouse; and that you should not let bulling take over you.
Kelsey Rist and Jen Anderson Pd. 7
We chose the children's book "The Spookiest Pumpkin" by Andy Rector. Under a Marxist lens you notice how the society in a pumpkin world is completely opposite than our American society, but has the same idea of "fitting in". The pumpkins need to be extremely round, tall, or fat to be a good pumpkin. In our society you need to be lanky skin and bones to be perfect. The "popular" pumpkins need to keep the other pumpkin around though, because they need someone to keep them entertained. They need him so they have someone to laugh and and make them feel better about themselves. As long as someone else is around that is lower class than they are it puts them up into an even higher class ranking. The left out pumpkin is also not as free as the other pumpkins because he is stuck in the pumpkin patch. The other special pumpkins get to go home with kids and become a Jack-O-Lantern. In a way the pumpkin patch is like an American gym class. At the pumpkin patch each one is specially picked out because of it's good qualities. In a gym class when you play a game each person also is chosen because of their special qualities. Then, there is always going to be a person (or pumpkin in the story) that is picked last. That person (pumpkin) is going to feel bad about themselves because they just don't fit in and aren't accepted. They are going to think there is something wrong with them when in reality they might just be better at something else. Each person has their own special qualities in different areas. In a Freudian lens you see that the pumpkin that gets left out, named Jacko, is in denial. He knows that he isn't like all of the other pumpkins and he just keeps putting himself down. Then, a spider comes and talks to him. This spider is in the same place as him. He too is not accepted in society. Jacko and Spider then become friends and stick together. But, Jacko is too envious of the other pumpkins because he wants to become a Jack-O-Lantern too. The Spider has a positive look on being the way he is no matter what people think. We can not look at this book through a feminist lens because we never find out if any character is a boy or a girl. Overall this book can give a bad message to little children because you find out that not everyone is perfect and fits in society and has a fairy tale ending. It also can be good though because you can learn early in life that not everything will work out exactly as planned and you will be perfect.
Cassie Grogan and Victoria Hurney Pr. 1
(Our book is 'Today I Feel Silly and other Moods That Make My Day by Jamie Lee Curtis, and illustrated by Laura Cornell)
Marxist
-She is a little girl who wants to be a grown up and do everything in the world. She tries to take charge of a bake sale and a park clean up. Her outer appearance is that of an old bag lady; however her family and home appears middle class. She does not know how to dress herself correctly yet she wants to be a high fashioned diva. At one point in the novel she does care about what she looks like but seems to give up.
Feminist
-She becomes sad when her friends leave her out of group activities. Little girls always fight about stupid things that have no real purpose. She also looses a friend because she tattles on her. We can relate this book to “Mean Girls”. On one of the pages she is seen holding a book of pictures of her and her friend that she has lost. She is coloring and drawing faces on her friends picture, just like the mean girls wrote about there friends in the burn book. For gender roles in this book; she is seen running in a race just as fast as any of the boys. That is portraying girls can do anything that guys can do and sometimes do it better.
Freudian
-She has a crush on her older nasty looking teacher. That is so wrong on so many levels, but it does happen in the real world. She has all these dreams of being a diva, a show girl, a dancer, and other things that she just is not. On one page of the book she is using Star Sleek straightening hair salve and Ever So Young eye gel to make herself be more grown up and feminine, but she still has to have her mom put band aids on her cuts and scrapes.
This book shows that you do not always get what you want in life and you have to take what is given to you. You have to be what God intended you to be no matter who has a problem with it. Be who you are not what others would have you to be and mean what you say and say what you mean.
Brittany Bolter and Samantha Hagen period 4
Love You Forever
Robert Munsch
Feminist-
page 1. mother is taking care of her son. no father is around in this book. the mother is wearing blue and not pink showing not every girl has to wear pink.
page 3. the little boy's room has all boy toys. nothing in the son's room has anything dealing with a girl.
page 4. the boy is a messy boy( just like all guys :P ) he is carrying around a baseball and a glove. showing he is athetic and a man
page 5. mom is wearing pink slippers and blue pj's. mixing the colors. even though the little boy is growing up the mother is still talking care and rocking her son.
page 10. even though the mother is gray and old she still drives over to her son's house and rocks him. (he is a grown man now)
page 11. The son is cooking which guys think is a girls job.
page 12. The son now is rocking his old gray mom.
page13. The grown son is now taking care of his little daughter. Her room is full hearts and is very pink.
This children's book does not show the other spouses of this family. It shows how a single mom can raise her son very well and to take care of himself.
Freudian-
page 1. the mother is rock her son back and forth. it could refer to the saying. "If the _______ is a rockin' dont come a knockin."
page 3. the mother is creepin in as the son is sleeping.
page 4. his bottle is dripping looking like a "guy part" cumming. also he has a ball in his hand maybe indicating he might be gay. He has a bubble coming out from his mouth maybe showing he likes to blow.
page 5. mother and son are cuddling on a bed... GROSS!
page 6. lamp looks ilke a phalic symbol. THe son's mouth is open looking like he is going to put the light bulb in his mouth. The friends are kind of in a 69 position indicatin they might be gay together.
page 7. a ball is laying next to a bat.
page 11. the pot handle is close to his manly area.
page 12. the mother is on top of the son's lap and he is "rocking" her
page 14. The son is rocking his daughter. daughters hand is on his boob. and the fathers had in on her butt.
The book we choose is "My First Garden" by Julia Allen. When looking at the cover the first thing we both noticed is that both the boy and the girl are not very cute. But normally children are portrayed as cute and innocent. These children are almost chucky like or look like little dolls, robotic. If you look at it in a feminist lens the boy and girl are dress pretty much the same. Same pants and shirt, the only difference is color. The girl is wearing pink, as usual, and the boy red striped shirt. The author is so vague that she does not even give them names. Maybe because the children are so young that are reading it they would not remember the names anyways. Or the author wants to make it easier for the children to imagine their selves and not get distracted with another name. On the first page they are claiming the ground they will use for their garden and both are in a very dominating pose; hands on their hips, straight backs, and a wide stance. Here they are show as equal because they both look very dominant. As they start to prepare for the garden it shows the girl digging the hole and the boy just kind of standing around or not doing anything of importance. Also when it comes to seeding and watering the girl is also doing the work. Only on one page is she directing him to use the plow. This shows boys that they can be dominate, even when "working together" with girls. The book was published in 1993; a time when being a farmer was becoming less of a popular choice. This is also a book for very young children so it is targeting them right away. Corn is a very common crop that farmers grow, almost too stereotypical because farmers grow a much wider variety of crop. But what is odd is that they are not farming, it is only a simple garden. This is probably because they want to make it more realistic for children to do and it is common for people to have gardens.
Lyle Hall & Melissa Bendixen Pd.6
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon
Written by Patty Lovell, Illustrated by David Catrow
It’s about a little girl who doesn’t feel comfortable about all of her features: including her teeth, voice, height, and clumsiness. She goes to her grandma for advice and her grandma tells her to smile big, sing loud, walk proud, and believe in yourself, so she did. Molly Lou Melon ended up having to move to a new school and she used all of her grandma’s advice and learned to be proud of everything she has.
Feminist: The grandmother is the one the little girl goes to; it makes you wonder why isn’t she going to her mother? Where is her mother? The grandmother is also very wise – the older you get the wiser you become. The main character is a little girl – not a boy – showing girls are more self-conscious about their bodies and need more support. Later on in the book when Molly Lou Melon goes to her new school there is a little boy who picks on all of her “flaws”. Supporting the idea that boys are the mean ones and the bullies. This set in gender roles and gender expectations.
Freudian: Throughout the book Molly Lou Melon is trying to express her super ego as best she can. First by believing in herself and trying to love the things about her she once loved least, then when Ronald Durkin (the bully) was trying to put her down she didn’t turn to her id to make things better, she just shined through with all of her beautiful traits she already had. Ronald Durkin on the other hand was controlled mostly by his id when he was picking on Molly Lou. He was trying to make himself seem bigger and better than her not only in his eyes but in his other classmates eyes. When Molly Lou outsmarted him, he felt foolish and guilty so when the end of the book came around he went to his super ego and was sweet to Molly Lou.
Marxist: Molly Lou Melon is a very independent little girl who looks to her older and wiser grandmother who guides her in her lives journey and teaches her how to be successful. Through a Marxist lens this girl in the beginning seams that she would be bad for a system because she is oppressed and different than everyone else, but as the story progresses and her grandmother teaches her to embrace what she has a Marxist would she that she could be very successful and powerful.
Laryssa Osheim, Meagan Donovan, Madison Rozell Pd.3
"If You Give a Moose a Muffin" &
"If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"
Through a marxist lens we will analyze how the moose from our first short story is a complete "mooch." He uses without asking: jam, a sweater, art supplies, socks, sheets, etc. And if using without asking is not rude enough, he always insists upon having more. The little boy is the power figure of the novel; he provides the moose with everything he asks. We are sending a false message to children that using without asking is acceptable, even comical; promoting stealing essentially. He also is the owner of the house which the moose is waiting outside of. The moose also dawns a too small sweater the entire book which presents the homeless aspect. The moose is also male, and men are commenly prejudged as being more moochy over women.
Through a freudian lens either novel can be examined. Each title involves a treat, which is also referred to as "goodies." If you give the mouse your "goods" it could be interpretted as virginity, sex, pleasure, and a multitude of other things. "Muffin" is also a slang term for the female vagina. Sex is so involved in the next generations' lives, and because of novels like these little kids are stealing, dressing inappropriately, and smarting off the parents. Who in their sane mind would allow their child to befriend a moose, none the less allow it into the house? These children obviously "own" their parents. The moose's book cover shows muffins stacked upon his hooves which resembles a penis, and he also has a "huge rack."
Through a feminist lens we would examine how the mouse needs to check if he has a milk mustache after eating cookies, and how his appearance is so important to him. Women are usually prejudged as being vain and "poweder puffs" which the mouse also uses later on.
There are also some literary devices throughout each novel. In the first published novel we see foreshadowing. The mouse is making cookies and on the floor we see muffin mix and also a muffin cookbook. In the next novel we see the moose playing puppets with both a mouse and a moose puppet, presenting a flashback effect. There is also a syrup container in the moose book, foreshadowing the novel "To Give A Pig A Pancake."
Jarrad Emery and Todd Suurmeyer
On the Farm by Kirsten Hall and
Thump, Quack, Moo by Dorren Cronin and Betsy Lewin
In On the Farm the story is all about a woman who does all the work by herself and goes through a day on the farm. Through feminist lens we see there’s the woman who does all the work. She is by herself; there isn’t any man in the book because she doesn’t need one. She can do all the work by herself. She works hard all day to get the job done all by herself and by the night is exhausted. Through a Marxist lens we see that she is a poorer farmer. She doesn’t have much equipment; she picks the corn by hand; and she has no one to help her. She enjoys her work and is happy to be doing it. At the end of the day she isn’t watching TV she is reading because she is a more intellectual.
Thump, Quack, Moo is also about a farmer but he is a man. Also in the book the farmer isn’t concerned about getting work done and taking care of the farm. Instead he is more concerned with building a corn maze. He doesn’t take pleasure in knowing that he is working hard for his living he is more excited about have people know him for what he did. He wants to get noticed for his great work and leave is mark. Through a Marxist lens we can see that he could be a richer farmer. He doesn’t need to do work because he has others to do it for him. He even enlists his animals to help him get ready. Also he is more worried about getting his maze done instead of making sure his farm is well kept. In the book we can see lots of selfishness. The farmer only cares about his maze. Also none of the other animals are willing to help until they get something in return. There is also a duck that changes the farmers design for him because that’s the only person he cares about. It’s funny too because you see at the end, here the farmer thought his animals were going to help when everything they did benefitted themselves, except for the chickens, they ended up entangling themselves in fencing.
The yellow sheet helps us think more critically because we have to study children’s books which aren’t necessarily intended for much deep thinking. By analyzing them and working hard at it we can learn to think deeper about others things to, not just things we are told we have to.
Katelyn Christensen and Sara Barnes Pd. 6
LOVE YOU FOREVER by ROBERT MUNSCH
Using the feminist lens, Sara and I uncovered that every room in the book that was ruined or trashed by the little boy is stereotypically a ‘womans’ room. For example: Kitchen, Bathroom, and the Living Room. You do not see the little boy in the garage causing commotion, or in the basement but the places that are dear to a woman’s heart are the rooms he causes the most disrupt. It is ironic that the author of the book is a male writing in a woman’s point of view. It is also ironic that the woman is the major power figure throughout the majority of the book, there is no father present.
Not a lens, but using the Oedipal Theory made Sara and I realize that there is no father present throughout the book, only a mother. The reverse is also true when the boy grows up into a man and has a daughter. Having the reverse effect on his own life, the boy may have adopted that value of only one power figure in the family, making it his own.
Through the Marxist lens, we analyze that this family is of the working class and that things are more normal, it shows the reader that there is more to love than just money, because usually the upper class tends to love money more than people, the reverse is true for the poor, but this book has a happy medium and a balance between the two. There are a few patriotic symbols throughout the illustrations, all throughout the book the great American sport, baseball, is continuously present. From early childhood, all through adulthood, additionally baseball is highly thought of in society, patriotic, a middle class sort of sport which highlights the fact that it is a blue collar living household.
Through the Freudian lens, the small pictures on the reverse page of each illustration, show only when the boy is asleep. This starts when he is a baby with a teddy bear, increasing to pizza as a teenager, this could be subconscious desires, leading to what he cares about at that particular stage of his life, or what he is dreaming about, from the previous day. This also illustrates the development of a little boy from child to and adult man. The mother is also present in this factor, when she is asleep, he is holding her, and on the reverse page is yarn and her reading glasses.
Chelsea Mattson and Megan Bly pd.7
Alexander by Harold LittleDale
Alexander is a child's book about a little boy named Chris telling his father about his day. He explains that "alexander" his imaginary red and green striped horse( his id) did naughty things through out the day like jumping on the bed, not bushing his teeth, spilling milk, knocking over can displays at the grocery store, and not playing with other kids on the playground. Everything that Chris does wrong is blamed on his imaginary horse friend alexander. Through a Freudian lens the story is told in a dream like manner, and the main character (chris's id) alexander is simply a figment of the imagination. Through a Marxist lens alexander has red and green stripes representing red for violence and bad things(communism) and green for life and blending into the walls since Chris has green walls in his bedroom(also through a Marxist lens is a typical boy's blue and green colored sports themed bedroom where the story exposition takes place) The father has power over the boy, as well as imagination(lie over truth) Through a feminist lens there is only one reference to the boy's mother. She is only mentioned once by him, and it's in a quote mentioned by chris of a type of punishment she could give. Chris' mother takes care of him, and keeps a clean house, and his father is the man of the house and fixes his little toy fire truck that alexander supposedly broke that day. The story is based off a father son conversation, no female importance in disciplining?
On the pages where chris misbehaves like pages 3 and 6 the picture turns to black and white except for the red stripes on alexander, and the red stripes on chris' pajamas. This shows the mirror image. The message to little kids isn't a good one, from the first page it is apparent that the father is smoking a pipe, possibly saying they are middle to upper class, and that that is a good class for kids to grow up in. Also it teaches kids that you can get away with blaming what you did on someone else (even an imaginary horse) and it will be acceptable to the father of the house hold. It is saying don't take responsibility for your own actions. Just blame it on your id and have no guilt since you didn't technically do it, or at least as far as your parent knows you didn’t. Chris is in denial of his responsibilities of his actions and behavior. Alexander provides a way for him to escape the blame.
Alyssa, Mandy, and Carly
Period 6
"How the Grinch Stole Christmas"
-by Dr. Seuss-
This children's story can be looked at through the different lenses very easily. Everyone should know the story of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" because it is very common to see around Christmas time and in some families, is even a tradition each year to have this story be read or watched as part of the Christmas holiday. This story can be seen through a Marxist lense by how the Who's of Whoville seem to have a 'class' ranking set up, or a sort of 'superstructure.' This can be noticed by paying attention to the fact that there are rich, upperclass Who's who can afford to just buy amazingly fancy Christmas decorations, and then there are the middle class Who's, who have to use what they have in their houses, such as simple house lights and lamps to decorate their homes in a Christmas fashion. There are also the poor, the Grinch included, who make their decorations for their homes out of things like garbage and such (however, the Grinch does not participate in the Christmas celebration at first, he still has homemade house decorations which are made from the garbage that came from the upper and middle class Who's). As well as the Christmas decorations, there is also an event that goes on in the town of Whoville, called the Whovillation, in which anyone from the town can be appointed the "Who'miester," which is the Who the the town thinks needs the most spirit boost. Although the rules say that anyone can be appointed this position, the upperclass seem to get first dibs (being the mayor of Whoville), when really it's the Grinch that could use that position the most, but he is the lowest class so he is definitely looked over.
This Dr. Seuss tale could also be seen through a Freudian lense, by how all the Who's in Whoville seem to have this picture of their supposed perfect Christmas, which includes them receiving a mountain of presents each, filling their plump stomachs, and all of these other materialistic objects. This is the 'dream interpretation' of the Who's that the viewer or reader would see at the beginning of this story. Who's all over the town would 'envy' other Who's over all the presents each one would possibly get for the holiday. At the beginning of the story, the Grinch's history is explained about how when he was little, during school all the students had to bring presents for their teacher on Christmas and look their best for that day. The Grinch put a lot of work in to create his teacher a special gift for Christmas and even tried to look his best for that day. Kids at school would make fun of him for how hairy and green he was, so to look his best, he tried shaving for the first time. He just wanted to fit in and look like the other kids at school at this point, which is another 'dream interpretation' the reader can notice.
This book could also be seen through a Feminist lense a bit. There seems to be some 'gender roles' throughout this tale. The men seem to have more control than the women and yet the men are seen in some pictures carrying the women's shopping bags. During the Whovillation, the women are the ones doing all the cooking for the taste testing contest and the men are left with all the physcial competitions. It seems to be the typical way you'd view a house wife and such, with them stuck in the kitchen doing all the cooking and the men outside doing all the physical labor.
Andrea Maassen and CJ Wachter Pd.7
We chose to analyze “Am I Beautiful?” by Else Holmelund Minarik. The main lens we are going to analyze is the feminist lens. The story is about a baby hippo whose mother is lazy and lays in a mud bath all day long. He uses his “id” and wanders off into the jungle seeing many mothers and fathers playing with their children and telling them that they are beautiful. The hippo is sad and jealous. He asks all the other parents if he is beautiful, and they all respond by saying something like, ask your own mother. This could be because they don’t want to tell him the truth that he is not beautiful and hurt his feelings, so they say they don’t know. Using the feminist lens, the mother hippo is lazy and wants to do nothing but lay around all day. The baby hippo is jealous of all the other children animals and their relationships with their mothers and fathers. It could be saying that the little hippo is being neglected of social interaction with his mother. We also found it very ironic that the father heron was giving his kids dance lessons. Most would feel that a mother figure would be right in teaching her children to dance. Also, while walking through the forest he encounters humans who are African American. Why would the people living in the forest need to be black? It is a stereotypical scene and the people even live in little straw huts. In the end the hippo goes back to his mother who tells him that he is beautiful, especially beautiful because he is her child. This book shows how kids can have insecurities about their body images, but that they are still loved by someone no matter how they look. It makes complete sense that the author chose to use a hippo over any other animal. A hippo is not an animal thought of as beautiful to say the least. Most would classify a hippo as fat, ugly, and wrinkly. They use one of the most unappealing animals to show that looks aren’t everything, love is. We used the feminist lens questions from the yellow handout to help use with the analyzation of this exhibit. The illustration in the exhibit depicts everyone as happy and getting along well. The lions don’t try to run after the hippo and eat him. The hippo doesn’t even seem to be worried. The author only wanted to focus on the hippo’s beauty dilemma and focus on that rather than to distract children with more things.
McCord Stowater & Sam Seydel
Clifford: The Stormy Day Rescue
Adapted by Kimberly Weinberger
Illustraded by Del and Dana Thompson
The story is about Clifford who has a gigantic bone and trys to find a spot to put it. He digs all around town but always is told he can't dig there. When a big flood arrives the library is in danger and Clifford helps out by digging a trench to save the library.
Marxist:
Clifford is a big red dog which one could interpret into being a symbol for communism. Emily or Clifford's "master" controls him throughout the book which suggests she could be considered a Joseph Stalin or Big Brother figure. Also, in the book at a restaurant there is a white customer being served by a black waiter. This suggests the social class stereotype. Also in the restaurant the customer has just a piece of white bread. This again could suggest that white is better. Once again this white suppremacy arises during a part where everyone is in a classroom. Everyone besides Emily is foreign. All the people in the room look at her as if she is the leader. When the water is rising and the people try to dig the trench in front of the library the majority of the people are foreign. Also in the picture the only white person is right in the middle of the group suggesting he is the best and attracts ones eyes to the main race.
Feminist:
Emily is the leader in the book suggesting women are more powerful. She also controls Clifford who is the biggest and strongest character. The teacher in the book is a woman. The only picture of her in the book potrays her as being dumbfounded and confused. This could be an insult that women are too stupid to think under high stress environments.
Fruedian:
During the whole book Clifford is carrying a gigantic bone which could be interpreted as a big penis. Also throughout the book he trys to find a "hole" to place his bone. This could also be twisted in another way in which Clifford is trying to satisfy his id by doing whatever to find a place for his bone. In a series of pictures is goes from rain to sunshine where everything is bright and lively. The rain could be sperm that gives life to all the plants.
Lexy Maassen and Alyx Cocoran
The book Alyx and I chose to analyze was “Little Critter- This is my school.” This book is part of a whole series of Little Critter books. In these books Little Critter goes to various places with various people and teaches young kids how to do things the good and proper way. These books do not just have one central message targeted at children; they have many little random messages that teach kids valuable lessons. In this particular book Little Critter teaches readers how to behave at school. When deconstructing this book through the Marxist lens we noticed that there is a small mouse that follows Little Critter around everywhere. He can be found on every single page in the story. In a sense we feel that he is almost representing a lower social class. This mouse is portrayed as a scavenger. He is using Little Critter as an escape from oppression. Little Critter provides protection, food, shelter, and possibly could be considered the mouse’s source of clothing. When looking through the Feminist lens we saw that even though the mother of Little Critter plays the motherly role well and does everything exactly the way a mother should; she also plays the role of the father, which Little Critter is lacking. On one page when she is taking Little Critter to the bus she is wearing a jacket that makes her shoulders appear very broad and manly like. This book subjugates the norm of having two parents care for a child. In addition, the gender roles in the book were very typical. The principal and the bus driver were men, while the teacher was a woman. However, there is a women cow that has horns; which could represent female power. Viewing the book through the Freudian lens we noticed that this book follows the Oedipal complex theory. Little Critter has managed to get rid of his father and now has his mother all to himself. Some subliminal messages we picked up on were that the teacher’s name is Miss Kitty; which is common stripper name and also could be a reference to feminine parts. The school nurse is a bunny and is dressed in scandalous nursing attire; which could suggest that she is a playboy bunny. Also, we found quite a few phallus symbols. The one that stood out the most to us was at the end of the book when Little Critter said that he was going to bring his pet snake in for show and tell.
Kaylee Anderson and Lauren Brandt
Beauty and the Beast
Adapted by Teddy Slater
Feminist Lens:
-The girls name is Belle, meaning beautiful in Italian
-She is said to always have her nose in a book. This can mean that girls are always more studious and care about reading and learning more than men.
-The prince is disgusted by the old beggar woman, showing that men only care about a woman’s looks and how attractive she is. Men don’t care about ugly women.
-Belle is “supposed” to marry Gaston because he is the hunky guy who can take care of her. This says that all women need to lean on a man to survive, that women aren’t self sufficient enough to take care of themselves.
- Belle is a strong girl who knows what type of man she wants to marry. Usually in fairy tales, the woman seems so excited that any man wants to marry her. She feels like she has to marry him without even knowing him.
- Belle is also the only woman who has a significant role in the book. This can prove that if women act as strong as her, they will be able to hold their own against many men.
- Belle ends up having to save the Beast twice throughout the book. The roles are reversed and the man has to lean on the woman for help to survive. Without Belle’s help, Beast would have died.
Marxist Lens:
- The powerful prince is taken off his throne and turned into an ugly beast. He loses his social class status.
- Belle does not come from a rich family or have a lot of success, but she is still happy and knows how to live her life in a way that can make her happier than money can
Oedipal complex:
-Belle’s mother is not shown in this book at all. We don’t even know if she exists.
-The townspeople think that Belle’s dad is a crackpot inventor who is crazy, but Belle sticks up for her dad and says that he is a genius inventor.
- When her dad is taken captive, Belle comes to his rescue and quickly offers to let him free if she will be held captive instead.
-While she is living at the Beast’s castle, she still misses her dad and wants to see him.
- When she sees her dad looking like he’s dying, Belle comes to his rescue again and tells the townspeople to leave him alone.
For this partner in thoughtcrime project, Austin and I decided to analyze or “Exhibit” that we decided to analyze, is “The cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss. In this children’s book/novel, with the help of the "Critical Lenses 101" packet, we noticed many interesting things that the average reader wouldn’t notice, or even consider noticing while reading. Throughout the “Exhibit”, the main Critical Lenses that we really noticed were the Marxist, and Freudian lenses, with a little bit of the Feminist lens thrown in. in this “Exhibit”, we see that fish is the supper ego, the kids are mostly the ego, the cat and thing one and thing two represent the id. We found the "Critical Lenses 101" packet helpful, and we will use it again for other Exhibit’s that we use.
Freudian lens: through a Freudian lens, the hat that the cat wears is somewhat of a folic symbol, and is practically naked in the book. Now we know that cats don’t wear clothes to often, but this cat looks more like a person, and we are pretty sure that If we saw a cat/person wearing only a hat, bow tie, and gloves, we would be a little freaked out if they walked into our house wanting to play.
Marxist lens: through a Marxist lens, we notice that the cat seems to represent the upper class just by how he acts, looks, walks, and holds things. The cat, in “The cat in the Hat”, is wearing a top hat, bow tie, and gloves. Which is mostly seen on the upper class, but not as much these days. When “The cat in the Hat” holds things throughout this book, his pinky finger is always pointed outward, and rich people, back in the day, acted the same way. We also see that he is carrying an umbrella with him, which are mostly seen carried by upper-class women.
Feminist lens: through a Feminist lens we noticed that “The cat in the Hat” seemed to act a little feminine at times, and the mother figure is some what a father figure. The father is usually the one who works, and makes the money for the family, and the cat seems to be more of the stay at home mom who stays home with the kids and wants to have fun with them, and when the mother/father figure is seen returning home, they have to clean up house before the mother/father figure gets mad and punishes them.
Brittney Myrlie, Katie Lindner
We analyzed the book “My Big Sister” we looked at the book with more of a feminist lens. On almost every page there is the little girl’s cat expressing the same emotion as the girl. Gina and Mercer Mayer used a cat as the animal because it is more feminine. Cat = feminist. A cat is soft, slow, gentle, and quiet. In the dream, the big sister plays the gender role of the mother. She is dependent on the older sister, only role model in book. At the begging of the book starts off with a dream a freudian lens of the girl who wants a big sister. The little critter envies other girls who have older sisters and wishes to have the same. The whole book is of her day dreaming. We used the Freudian lens to interpret the dream. The book show all the things that she would do with her older sister if she had one. Girls want to be celebrities. She dreams that they are to be celebrities, rich, high class and popular. Girls are meant to have the kitchen rolls, dancing, dress up, makeup and other girl things. In the book they are playing volleyball, normally schools don’t have a guy’s volleyball team, it’s not manly. That is our id of what roles our genders take on. At the end of the book the girls dream gets awaken by her brother and she realizes that she will just have to be happy with what she has. Then the girl ends up playing catch with her brother. Boys want to be athletes and follow their id. They want to be powerful, known for their strength so they play sports. The gender expectations of the Little Critters are that the boy plays football and the girl plays dress up. Then we compared other Gina and Mercer Mayor books with this one and noticed a lot of similarities between the book like how there is either a cat or a dog on every page depending if it’s a boy or girl. In “My New Neighbor” it showed that girls can do anything than boys can do. The dog is more of a manly animal and is with him through every adventure. When the girl wants to play with the little critter he runs away because he doesn’t want to play with a girl. He goes through many tough obstacles trying to run away from her, doing things a girl isn’t portrayed to do like: climbing trees, swinging over a stream, jumping onto a roof. In the end he realizes he had fun playing with her and wants to do it again. After all they did play together even if they were opposite genders.
The “Critical Lenses 101” gives us an understanding what a superego, id, and ego are. The questions under each lens were good to answer while reading the book.
Blog by Justin Gabbert and Cade Erck
Our short story is called "Dinosaur Days" by Linda Manning. This is a childrens book about teaching kids the days of the week. Looking at this book through a Freudean lense it is more like a battle between your id and superego. Each dinosaur is performing an act and the little girl is trying to control the dinosaur. It actually appears has if the little girls is performing all the acts that the dinosour are commiting. Through a Marxist lense the little girl performs all the acts that a poor person would do. She cleans and looks after the dinosaurs and takes care of the house. She is basically a maid to the dinosaurs. Even in the story there are pictures of the dinosaurs as high class citizens. This short story would be very frustrating through a femenist lense. The little girl is forced to clean and take care of all the messes that the dinosaurs make. Even though dinosaur books are mainly directed toward little boys the main character is a little girl. This may be because the writer is female herself. The book however is dedicated to a boy named David because he loves dinosaurs. Upon deeper inspection of this book it is also sexual. The female dinosaur is riding a pole like a stripper would while the little girl just watches and admires. The dinosaur ends up playing with a hose which would imply a phallic symbol. We also believe that the writer was very religious, because on each page there are tons of numbers to represent the days of the week. However on Saturday the number is six and there are only 2 six's. Thus the writer is avoiding the number 666. Also with a Marxist lense the day of the week starts on Monday instead of Sunday, because people normally work Monday through Friday. We are forced to believe that the week begins on a Monday instead of Sunday. Also with a Marxist lense the T-Rex is the king of the dinosaurs, yet he is found giving food to all of the other dinosaurs. The greatest predator is serving the weaker creatures. This is a colorfull and active childrens book but looking through it deeper one can see that it isn't very proper for children to read.
The book me and my FRIEND chris anaylzed was the day jimmy's boa ate the wash by Trinka Hakes Noble.
Through the Freudiad lense you got a young boy and you girl and Cats and Roosters. Each of those could be consider sexual names for there nicknames. also later in the book jimmys "snake" goes towards the the clothes line and scares the old grandma and in this scene his snake is slithers throw all the clothes and they kinda seem like condom's. At the end of the book it had the old farmer man and women sitting at around the fire with jimmys boa in th middle of them and and the old women was nitting a giant scarf for the boa and it simplizes a large condom and above the man and women there is a roster sitting ontop of the mans chair and obove the women there is a cat sitting ontop of her chair and at the above the fire place there is a clock and above the clock there is a roster so it's saying that the man runs the household.
For Feminest lense through out the book the only people that get attacked by the animals are the Males. All the females sit around and are not harrased by the animals. Later in the book the boys start to out smart the girls and the girls end up getting hit with all the eggs and the boys just laugh.
Matt Pueppke and Lauren Teal (Pd. 1)
Our children’s book we chose was Pigs Can’t Fly! by Ben Cort. Throughout this book we noticed many different lens like feminist, Marxist, and Freudian. So in a Feminist Lens we noticed that the main character was a male who happens to be a pig. This shows that men are pigs, and they are self-centered. This book is obviously written by a men because there aren’t any female animals, or animals that would be more appealing to little girls such as a butterfly or a sheep. The pig can’t want to be a girly animal though because it wouldn’t work with his gender role. In a Marxist lens we noticed that page by page the main character becomes more and more dissatisfied with himself, and wants to ‘raise in class’, similar to a prole or in the poorer society. In any of these positions they’d want to rise to a higher class. The author chose a pig for the main character because they have the connotation of being unclean, and they roll around in mud which would fit more a poorer society. One page that stuck out in the book was when “Pig” wants to be a ‘Giraffe’ so he climbs upon stilts to look down upon the other animals. The next lens we saw was Freudian. This whole book is about dreaming of being something that you are not. The pig page by page is trying to change into an animal that is more ‘fun’ and ‘interesting.’ He doesn’t believe that his race (Marxist) is good enough for him. By wishing he is a different animal he is dreaming, and dreaming is considered to be a Freudian lens. More of a stretch of a Freudian Lens would be the page where Pig is trying to be an elephant. Why the author chose this animal is beyond me, but it just happened to have an abnormally large trunk which would easily be seen as a phallic symbol. Beyond the lenses we noticed other interesting things such as it has a really good moral towards the end teaching people to except who they are, and should not try to be something they aren’t. We both found it interesting that you can find so much inappropriate things in a childrens book if you look for it. I know that we both will analyze the book (in our heads) with our children while we read it aloud.
Jordan Meyers and Isaac Bigelow pd.5
The Three Little Pigs
By: Paul Galdone
We first used the Marxist lens in order to read this novel. The three little pigs are always shown as greedy, they ask for and don’t give back. The wolf in the novel represents communism. The three little pigs are perceived as capitalists because they always want more. When the wolf comes to the first and second pigs houses, blows the house down, and then eats them this is showing what communism (the wolf) will do to capitalism (the first two pigs). The first pig asks for a bundle of straw so as to build a house, this shows that the first pig is a part of the lower class of the capitalist latter. The second pig asks for a bundle of sticks, which is better than straw but not as good as bricks, the fact that he is between straw and bricks shows that he is standing in the middle class of the capitalist world. The third pig is obviously then at the top of the capitalist latter and lives in a luxurious house made of solid bricks. The wolf goes and blows down the first two little pig’s houses and then consumes them, but when he gets to the third pigs house he cannot blow the house in. This shows that the low and middle classes would be eaten up by communism, but the high class can withstand communism. In the end communism (the wolf) is eaten up by capitalism (the pig) in a pot of boiling water.
With a feminist lens we found that all of the pigs in the novel are male except for their mother who is shown wearing an apron and is crying because she is sending off her little pigs because she cannot afford to take care of them. We thought that this could be showing that women are either not capable of taking care of their children or that they are better because this female pig had been taking care of her three children all by herself without the help of a man. But we did find that she is the only woman in the novel; otherwise every other character is a man because men rule the world with their money and power. In the world of the three little pigs and in the real world men tend to dominate over women. The mother pig is shown as being weak as compared to her three little pigs who are going out to live in the world by themselves.
Lexi Fontana, Ashley Mork, Jayden Crull, Natalya Kwikkel. Pd. 6
My mom is trying to tuin my life by Kate Feiffer Illustrated by Diane Goode
Marxist -It seems to appear that this book is meant for upper-class families to read. The mother and daughter are wearing dresses the whole time inclusive with a sleeked back, sophisticated ponytail; like the upper class wear. Also the father is wearing a nice suit and tie with an overflowing briefcase at the beginning of the book, and towards the middle the father's "casual" wear is nice slacks and a sweater vs. shorts and a t-shirt, like middle-class families. In this short story, the mother is a stay-at-home mom; which demands the father to make bank. Having the income only comes from one adult and the family is still well-off proves that the father has a high-class paying job.
Feminist -This short story promotes gender expectation greatly. The title only uses one adult mom, instead of both mom and dad; showing that the mother is dominant in parenting over the father. It also insists that all mothers must be loud and obnoxious. Spend every minute of the day cooking, cleaning, and be ridiculously overprotecting by bringing an extra pair of shorts to school just in case. On the other hand when, the little girl fanaticizes about her parents getting caught by police, they police officers are dominated by males; two to one. The woman is also on the end of the line and in a skirt and kitten heels. Does society really think the women police force can perform their duty to the community in kitten heels and a skirt? We, being a group of girls, surely hope not.
Freudian -The second half of this short story is the little girl's fantasy. Dreaming of how her life would be, if she didn't have her parents to boss her around or "ruin her life" she says. The daughter's fantasy is her id speaking, telling her how wonderful and grand life on her own would be. On the other hand, her superego is her conclusion of truly being on her own, making her own food, reading her own bedtime stories, and having no one to comfort her when frightened in the middle of the night. In the end her superego conquers, like children's books should. Having authors teach the youth the best solutions to tough situations, is critical.
Using the "Critical Lenses 101" handout helped us a great deal. Having difficult material like Marxist, Feminist, and Freudian lens to comprehend; this tool made understanding it clearly understandable with ease.
Lindsay and Laura pd. 5
We chose to analyze the short story, “Just Me and My Dad” by Mercer Mayer. Throughout this short story many lens show through. All three of them are prominent when you take a deeper look. Little Critter and his father have a boys day out, and go to stay in a tent in the wilderness. That is basically all this story is about. On page one, you can see that they are leaving the mother home alone. When looking through a feminist lens, you can see the mother is wearing an apron, showing that she is depicted as a typical housewife, and she is not going along on the trip but is to stay home and do what women do, for example cooking, cleaning, etc.. This challenges the representations of women as a part of nature where as the father and son are a part of culture naturally because they are simple men. Biologically and socially women are thought to be less strong and less important than men. Gender roles play a huge part in this lens, as well as gender expectations. Little critter expects a day out with just his dad, and she is to stay home and cook and clean. From a Freudian lens, Little Critter is definitely trying to gain back his narcissistic bliss he once held as a baby. He tires to impress his father and get his attention by doing all the things they need to be done. For example he tries to find the camp, he tries to pitch the tent, getting dinner and so on. He wants to re – achieve this bliss and feel important to his father. Little Critter’s ego takes him over, as he tries to impress his father but continually fails at all the tings meant for adults to do on such trips as this. When Little Critter is scared, he lies and said that his dad was actually the scared one just to make his ego look and feel better. We believe that this boosts his ego to make him feel manly and be more like his own father. Also, Critter and his father are wearing flannels and boots, which is typically a blue collar wardrobe which relates to the Marxist lens. Although this book has mostly Freudian and Feminist lens, from the Marxist point, Critter is given less freedom because of his class. He is working hard to impress his father, and the social tension to be like his father is overwhelming and he continues to be unable to complete the tasks that he wants to. He is being mechanized and has oppressive culture to become the next man in his family. With these lens we can look deeper into even a children’s book, where children will probably only take it as far as spending a casual weekend with their father.
Joe Egge and Mike Schumaker P.5
Pigs Don't Fly.
If you were to deeply analyze this children's book in a feminist lense, you may see that the pig could possibly be female. No offense to girls at school, but some are the type like, "i'm not cool but this other person is, so i'm going to walk talk and act like that 'cool' person." This is about the only way i can relate Pigs Don't Fly to a feminist type deal. The pig may also feel like he's the "other" animal... until he sees the other pig having fun being a pig
Marxist Lense
The Pig doesn't feel that he is cool enough, or that he has enough power over others. If you compare a pig to the other animals mentioned, the pig is the smallest. The others mentioned are a giraffe, an elephant and a kangaroo. The pig also wants to become a parrot, (which is smaller, i realize) but he may feel the bird has more power because he can fly, which everyone knows is the ultimate thing ever. The pig wants to belong to a "higher" class of animals.
Freudian Lense.
In the children's book, Pigs Don't Fly, the pig has this thing of, "wanting to be bigger," which we all know kind of sounds like some stupid enzyte commercial with Smiling Bob. The drawings depicted here also have some sexual meaning in them. One picture has the pig laying on his back holding a flower at his waist line. Now anyone here PLEASE attempt to tell me that doesn't have any sexual meaning behind it.... that's right... you can't. Another picture in Pig's Don't Fly is at the end. the pig is rolling around in the mud with another pig... which could presumably be a female pig... and you know what else i'm thinking in that situation. Deeper into the Freudian lense, you see that the pig has great envy of the other animals. He/she is a bit narcissistic too. the pig "transforms" into other animals, and then has the balls to go around and tell people, "hey elephant, I'm a giraffe." To me, that is a bit full of himself. I'm sure though at the end when the pig "finds" himself, he has a bit of guilt. but not overly alot. the pig finally finds that being a pig is not so bad after all.
The book that I chose to analyze was Alvin the knight by Ulf Lofgren. Through a Marxist lens, he social classes interact with each other the way underclass people interact with higher class people. They are treated as peasants or slaves and they usually have to work harder to get what they want. He first starts out adoring a display of a knight in a museum then the story takes a chronicles of narnia sort of theme because he ends up going through a door to a whole new world. He does not get to become a knight at first. He starts out as a servant making food for higher class people and busting his butt. He then takes up the position of a court jester which is higher than a kitchen worker. Then after all that he ends up finally getting his position as a knight but he is so good that all the other knights try to overthrow him and he ends up going straight back down to the bottom. At the point where he is a kitchen worker he is miserable because it is not at all what he expected. He is expected to run and get stuff and prepare chairs for all of the people coming to the feast but he is not overworked because the other people do the same amount of work as he does. Through a feminist lens all the women in the story are kitchen workers which says that men were the only ones that did other stuff that needed done. Also through a feminist lens girls are usually dreaming about being princesses but this story is the male equivalent of those stories because Alvin dreams of being a medieval figure also. I think the story is trying to say that boys can be dreamers too. Every story about dreaming to be something has a female as the main character. Are they saying that stories are only supposed to have women in the position of the protagonist. Sexism goes both ways so I applaud the author of this story because he has exposed the other side of the spectrum of children’s stories. Through a Freudian lens knights represent power and Alvin is weak but wants to be strong and powerful like a knight. He ends up going from peasant to entertainment for the head knight to actually becoming a knight so it is like throughout the story Alvin grew up and realized being a knight was not what it was cracked up to be.
for this project me and nate analyzed spongebob squarepants lost in time: a medieval adventure. in this book we used a freudian lens, we noticed that spongebobs eyes and nose turned upside down look like a penis and testicles. they are very marxist characters, they seem to have money to do whatever they want even though patrick has no job or money, so i assume that spongebob is the one with the money and patrick uses him to do things. they go to a medievel moments restaurant where it is dinner and a show. there is a knight jousting match while they eat. all Patrick can focus on is food, he just wants to eat. the place asks for volunteers for the match and they pick these to. this is sexist because they pick two guys automatically, not even thinking about women. there are only 2 girls in this book, which from a feminist view would be good and bad. one girl, pearl who is the daughter of the king is a damsel in distress and needs to be rescued from a giant jelly fish. the other girl is a night that challenges spongebob to a dual and he beats her with karate showing that man always beats women. but she eventually joins up with them and helps them rescue the damsel in distress. this book is also weird because is shows the damsel as a whale and the king is a crab which makes no sense at all and makes you wonder how that happened.
Kassidy Hebb and Kelsey Sandvold Pd. 3
We decided to analyze Proper Percy by Linda Lee Elrod. The marxist lens and feminist lens are most easily applied in this book. Percy is a teddy bear owned by a rich little girl. It is very stereotyped because the girl has curly blonde hair and servants which goes along with how she is rich. The curls could be a phallic symbol. Through a feminist lens, you can see how
the girl is dressed in fancy, frilly clothes to make her more feminine. The bear also has fancy clothes-a satin vest and a bow tie. They are both red which
could be because the girl dressed him and it is a more feminine color. When Percy sees other bears who are worn and dirty, he cannot believe they are smiling. He is probably thinking this because he is rich and it is embedded in him that you have to be rich to be happy. One day the little girl's father calls her inside to see her new puppy. This is like Freuds "Oedipal complex" theory because she is abandoning her teddy bear to go spend time with the opposite sex parent. Nowhere in this book is the little girl's mother mentioned. The little girl acts so grown up that it could be her taking on a motherly role in the family. When Percy is laying there, it rains on him which ruins his beautiful clothes, making him feel less proper. When Coleen finds Percy, she holds his hand on the way home. Percy's first owner pushed him in a fancy wagon which is more feminine. It is also less personal and lovable to be pushed in a wagon versus being held. Coleen washes Percy and sews his eye back on. Through the feminist lens, she is doing the typical jobs that girls are supposed to do. She ties a blue ribbon around his neck. This is more of a manly color, and Percy is a lot less feminine from his velvet red he used to wear. At the end of the book, Percy realizes that money
does not buy love and you do not need to look pretty to be a beautiful person. This book has a great lesson to it. The yellow handout helps me think more critically because it helps better explain the marxist, feminist, and freudian lenses. I like how it has movies that I know, and analyzes them using these lenses which helps me think harder.
By: Katie Carlson & Ashley Wise Pd-6
The book we did was "Purple, Green and Yellow" by Robert Munsch
In this book, its about a girl who her mom keeps going to the store and buying her daughter these "new" markers, everytime she wants them.
Marxist:
When her daughter sees her friends with these markers she automatically wants them because there the new thing, her mother runs out and buys 500, usually we would only get 20 or 25, which makes us think that this mother is rich, because she goes way over the expected.
Another would be in the pictures they picture this "huge" beautiful house that is clean other than the girl in which colored all over the walls.
Feminist:
In this book there are several different points in the book where a feminist lense could be used.
The first would be that there are no guys in this story, its all girls, being with the mom and daughter. Also the girl they make out to be "not the smartest crayon in the box" which is making girls look dumb, saying that all girls are dumb, and that all guys are smart and these "never making a mistake" people.
Another thing would be using this lense the daughter always goes to her mother and asks her for the markers not her father, saying that her father is alot more strict then her.
Alot of terms helped with analasising this children book, some of those terms would be.
CLIMAX, which helped me pick out the middle of the story and actually the most important point of the story because its where that challenge is.
EXPOSITION, which helped me know background information on the markers, why she needed the newest ones and what they did.
RHYTHM, This book was very rhythmic in repeating What she colored with the different markers she received.
VISUALIZATION, Even though there are pictures in this book, it still makes you picture what is going to happen next, since not everything that happens is pictured, it also helps understand whats going on with the story.
FORSHADOWING, From the beginning of this book, readers whats going to happen at the end of the book when she has the "not-coming-off-markers-untill-your-dead-or-longer, we all figured that she would color all over herself and that wouldnt want to tell her mom.
The last Glossary term that helped me deconstruct this book would be the TWO-SHOT, it showed the mother and daughter at the same time, and in the end it showed the daughter-father and mother-father.
Kenton and Kortney pd. 3
The Lion King
Feminist:
This story only mentions two females throughtout this children's book, Sarabi and Nala. Sarabi is the mother of Simba and the queen of Pride Rock, but other than that she is pretty much a nothing making it seem that she is less important. Nala is the best friend of Simba. She is easily coaxed by Simba to disobey what his father has told him making her seem weak and independent. Also, reading on, she is seen as a strong lionness that stands her ground, making it look like that she should be in power instead of Simba. Nala is seen as the intelligent one, because she enlightens Simba about what is going on at Pride Rock. Nala is Simba's best friend and is there for support and to kind of help him in the right direction, which is to go back and challenge Scar. This book is demeaning to Sarabi by making her a nothing and for Nala also by showing her as weak, but does show Nala as a strong, dependent, intelligent lionness.
Marxist:
The lions in this book is very power hungery. Mufasa is very strong physically and the fact he is male is the only reason that he is in power. But power hungery Scar is the one who is really intelligent and if given the chance might do good, because he does come up with a good plan to kill Mufasa and Simba.
Males are seen as the dominant character in this story. (man's world??)
You see two different social classes. Mufasa's is the upperclass the ones who have it all and life on Pride Rock. And Scar's who live in the outskirts of Pride Rock and have to fight for what they got. You see the struggle between the two and constant fighting to share what they all want.
Fruedian:
One kind of obvious on is that Pride Rock is a phallic symbol. Men rule Pride Rock.
Hakuna Matata is also seen though the Fruedian lens. It means no worries. Its that life that everyone would love to have. Simple and easy. You see how Simba goes from him one day being King and how he wants to be king then realizes all the responsibility that goes along with it. Then goes to live with Timon and Pumba in a "no worry" lifestyle and enjoys and takes advantage of it.
Kristi Stomberg, Kenzie Fritz, Megan Short
We analyzed deeply of the children’s book “David Gets in Trouble” bye David Shannon. As a Title you it is already about a boy in trouble, indicating that girls don’t really get in much trouble. In this story one lens I used was a Marxist Lens or theory. Through out this story, David brakes a window while playing baseball in the fenced in yard knocking over a plant. The expression on his face is surprised but not scared of what his parents will think or say. With his reaction and the fenced in yard could make them in a middle or higher up class. On another page David is caring a bunch of snack, junk food. Families that are not made of money wouldn’t have this much food just waiting to be eaten. Another lens we used in this book is the Freudian lens. David is the id in this story because it overpowers his superego and always gets in trouble and doesn’t follow the rules, and creates more bad things to happen than good. On a page David is eating and asking why he has to, but the food is of 2 eggs, that could resemble boobs, they could have had one and bacon, or pancakes. On another he forgets to wear pants and running around in his underwear. The saying of keep your pants on, really means something. While girls are in the background looking and laughing. Finally we have the Feminist lens. This is a very touchy subject that really gets to be miss leading. The page were David forgets his pants his mother is running behind him, though we do not see above her shoulders, trying to give him his pants. This could be a gender role of this is the mom not the dad for a reason because women should be home working as a house mother. Dads aren’t really there, The dad isn’t really mentioned just one page when David has soap in his mouth and he states “but dad says it!” men are allowed to swear and makes them more manly and women are suppose to be perfect and they cant have a vulgar vocabulary, only men can. Gender expectations are apart of that, boys can burp and be nasty, they don’t have to do their homework, and David does all of that stuff in this book, while all the other girls have their homework done and never do anything wrong. I think children’s books are worse than what they really seem.
Tyler Nelson, Ethan Graff, “A Quiet Night In” by: Jill Murphy.
Children’s books, like A quiet night in, have a great impact on childhood growing up. They set the moral bar for the rest of your life. For example, a Quiet Night, on the surface, shows an adorable story of two worn out parents, but if you look deeper under the surface with critical lenses you can unlock many unseen meanings that impact one’s life. For example, when looking at this book using a Freudian lens you can see that Mister and misses Large really just want the kids to go to bed so they can bang.. Mrs. Large clearly tells the kids that she wants nothing to do with them tonight because she wants a “A Quiet Night In” with her husband on his Birthday. Using the familial lens, you can see that this book is training men and women the in a capitalist society the way a family “works”. The Male figure spends his entire day at his blue collar job and when he gets home, he places himself on the couch and expects his wife to wait on him like a king. A prime example of this is when he first arrives home, the children greet him with a book asking for a story. He is illustrated in the book as being obviously annoyed with the idea of having to spend time reading to his children. The female figure is expected to take care of the children all day, continuously cleaning up and taking care of them. On top of that, she is expected to cook a complete meal for her husband and not complain and enjoy it. Looking at this book through a feminist lens you can see that women are portrayed as less of a human being because they have to take care of kids because that is their role in life. Taking it back to the Freudian lens, we can also predict that these two adult elephants were faking falling asleep while reading the story in order for the children to go to bed and leave them alone at last. This can be seen through the illustrations throughout the book. On the second to last page, both Mister and misses Large “appear” to be sound asleep separated on the couch from each other. However, on the last page of the book the two adults magically appear side by side cuddling with one another with their trunks intertwined.
John Grothe and Ryan Mudder
Title: Beth’s Happy Day
The book we chose to analyze with the Feminist, Marxist, and the Freudian lenses was Beth’s Happy Day. The cover of the book shows a girl who has blonde hair and blue eyes. Looking at this through a Marxist lens, one could see this as a reference to the Arian race, or the “perfect race” in Hitler’s eyes. This can be looked at through a Freudian lens as being the typical attributes a girl would have in man’s fantasy. The title of the book is “Beth’s Happy Day”. Throughout the book it is referenced as being her birthday but looking at the title with a Freudian lens one could wonder why it wouldn’t just say, “Beth’s Happy Birthday”, instead. This “happy day” could be full of adventures. Throughout the book there are some narrow, hot dog shaped balloons. A reader with a Freudian lens would say that it looks like a dick. This book has a reverse Electra theory included because only the mother is in the story and not the father. Beth plays with her cat in the book. A Freudian lens would suggest that she is playing with her pussycat, as in playing with herself. She plays with the cat whenever she gets bored. A lady is shown doing the laundry outside. Seeing this with a Feminist lens says that doing laundry is a woman’s job and that is what they are supposed to do. The only boy in the book is Asian and he is playing in the sandbox. The boy is wearing a white shirt and white shoes with red overalls on. The colors of Japan are white and red. There is also a pail in the corner of the sandbox that is red, white, and blue with a white star on the front and red and white stripes on the top resembling the U.S. flag. With a Marxist lens on, this looks like he is at war on the beaches of Japan against the United States. The boy is also crying. By playing in a sandbox all alone and being depressed, it stereotypes him to look poor. The next page he is holding a ball and is about to drop it. With a Marxist lens this could be interpreted as dropping a bomb. Later, Beth talks with a female neighbor who has a cast on her leg. With a Feminist Lens, this makes women look weak. The lady is also reading, which is what most women do in their spare time. As Beth enters the room for her party, a penis shaped balloon is close to her. The Asian boy is at the party but now the cat is by him instead of her. He is now playing with the pussycat. He also is blowing up a party toy when Beth enters the room. When you blow this toy up, it becomes straight. With a Freudian lens, this makes it look like he is getting an erection as she enters the room. The next page shows the mom with her mouth open facing two round balloons. On the other side of her head is the penis shaped balloon. Through a Freudian lens, this makes it look like the mom is giving a blowjob. At the end of the book, Beth is blowing out her candles. A Freudian lens would suggest that she is blowing stiff candles out.
Im doing my 200 words for plummer and my childhood book presentation. The book we chose to analyze was one of my childhood favorites which is "Go dog Go" by P.D. Eastman. The book is about a bunch of dogs and the activities they do to get to their ultimate dudetopia. The book can be anaylzed through a marxist lense because from the cover it is apparent that the dogs are wealthy, like the bourgeoisie there is no room for proletariats in this book. The cover of the book is a classy looking dog with an european racing scarf on driving a car with a grill signifying a fine foreign car. Through out the book the dogs are using classy mobiles and they are sleep in a very high class bed. In this bed that they sleep it is all male dogs sleep in a huge bed. This could be looked at through a freudian lense because they might be trying to achieve narcissistic bliss taht they felt as little puppy dogs. In this book the female dog plays a insignificant role ina few pages a female poodle tries to please a male dog but her effort was in vain. At the end of the book the high class male dogs climb a very large ladder to get to the dudetopia at the top of the tree of "dudedom."
Kristi Stomberg, Kenzie Fritz, Megan Short
We analyzed deeply of the children’s book “David Gets in Trouble” bye David Shannon. As a Title you it is already about a boy in trouble, indicating that girls don’t really get in much trouble. In this story one lens I used was a Marxist Lens or theory. Through out this story, David brakes a window while playing baseball in the fenced in yard knocking over a plant. The expression on his face is surprised but not scared of what his parents will think or say. With his reaction and the fenced in yard could make them in a middle or higher up class. On another page David is caring a bunch of snack, junk food. Families that are not made of money wouldn’t have this much food just waiting to be eaten. Another lens we used in this book is the Freudian lens. David is the id in this story because it overpowers his superego and always gets in trouble and doesn’t follow the rules, and creates more bad things to happen than good. On a page David is eating and asking why he has to, but the food is of 2 eggs, that could resemble boobs, they could have had one and bacon, or pancakes. On another he forgets to wear pants and running around in his underwear. The saying of keep your pants on, really means something. While girls are in the background looking and laughing. Finally we have the Feminist lens. This is a very touchy subject that really gets to be miss leading. The page were David forgets his pants his mother is running behind him, though we do not see above her shoulders, trying to give him his pants. This could be a gender role of this is the mom not the dad for a reason because women should be home working as a house mother. Dads aren’t really there, The dad isn’t really mentioned just one page when David has soap in his mouth and he states “but dad says it!” men are allowed to swear and makes them more manly and women are suppose to be perfect and they cant have a vulgar vocabulary, only men can. Gender expectations are apart of that, boys can burp and be nasty, they don’t have to do their homework, and David does all of that stuff in this book, while all the other girls have their homework done and never do anything wrong. I think children’s books are worse than what they really seem.
Santagia L. & Kelsie T.
“Tacky the Penguin” by Helen Lester
In “Tacky the Penguin” the most obvious lens that someone could see is the Marxists lens. When the hunters come into play in the book the only thing that they care about is money. Even though each penguin is only a dollar they want the money. You can also see that the bear seems a bit more upper class than the wolves do. The wolves are skinny and the bear is plump. Although it looks like by their actions that their class is the same, proletariat. Now using a Freudian lens we see right away in this children’s book that there is a difference between the ‘normal penguins’ and Tacky just by their names. Moving back to the Marxist lens you can see that the other penguins are more upper class than Tacky. They wear nice clothes, dive, march, great, and sing perfectly where as Tacky is just the opposite. Right away in the story he is pin pointed as “odd.” Back to the Freudian lens; when looking and thinking about Tacky there is automatically someone that you think about. To me I think of a grandpa, with the clothes that the penguin picks out and the embarrassing looks on the other penguins faces remind me of my face from time to time. What is interesting is that even though you may be the upper class this story reminds children and the adults that are reading it to the children to remember just because they are different doesn’t mean they aren’t special. In Tacky’s case he saves all of his companions from getting sold off by the hunters. The hunters wanted perfect penguins but what Tacky showed them was exactly how he lived everyday life and with that the hunters ran away with their ears covered. What is more important about this story is that it is okay not to conform like everyone else. Goodly, Lovely, Angel, Neatly, and Perfect all are the ones that conformed. Tacky is the odd ball out but he does turn out to be more valuable than the rest. The other penguins symbolize conformity in such a way that they do everything exactly the same as the other. Not once is there mention that one penguin has a remarkable voice or dives the best. The only one that is picked out is Tacky because he does everything different.
Samantha Robinson and Emily Gardner
The children’s story we had analyzed was “The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss. We had read this story with a Freudian, Feminist, and Marxist lens. With the Marxist lens we notice how the class was shown as middle-upper. The kids have lots of toys and food. The pictures in the book also also show a Marxist lens. There are tennis racquets symbolizing their class. Also the cat in the hat is wearing gloves which show a higher class. This may be a stretch but one could infer the cat is half black and half white, showing the unimportance of race. With a feminist lens gender expectations are shown by saying the mother’s dress has pink polka dots. Society portrays girls to pink and boys to blue. The gender role of the mother is shown as a single mom who leaves her kids home alone. The story never mentions a father figure to the children. Expectations of a mother are always to be with the children and be with the children while the father role is “bringing food home to the table”. In this case the mother is out and the children are left to themselves, without the father. You can also read the pictures with a feminist lens. There is a man on a ship. Why couldn’t a women have been on a ship. This story can be analyzed quite deeply with the Freudian lens. The characters “the cat in the hat”, thing one, and thing two is thought to be the “id” of the story. All three characters create chaos in the house. They make a giant mess and show the children how to “have fun”. The superego of the story is known as the “fish”. Fish is tells the children this is wrong. You need to get rid of this cat. Which is funny because I though cats eat fish for food. The children are the ego because they just go along with what the cat in the hat, thing one, and thing two, or also known as the “id”. In comparison to the movie with Mike Meyers the rake is called a “hoe”.
This story leaves me with questions I can not figure out. Why does the cat ear a bow tie? Is he supposed to be wearing a tux? Why is the mother never shown completely?
The movie shows the story in more of a modern day way.
Samantha Robinson and Emily Gardner
The children’s story we had analyzed was “The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss. We had read this story with a Freudian, Feminist, and Marxist lens. With the Marxist lens we notice how the class was shown as middle-upper. The kids have lots of toys and food. The pictures in the book also also show a Marxist lens. There are tennis racquets symbolizing their class. Also the cat in the hat is wearing gloves which show a higher class. This may be a stretch but one could infer the cat is half black and half white, showing the unimportance of race. With a feminist lens gender expectations are shown by saying the mother’s dress has pink polka dots. Society portrays girls to pink and boys to blue. The gender role of the mother is shown as a single mom who leaves her kids home alone. The story never mentions a father figure to the children. Expectations of a mother are always to be with the children and be with the children while the father role is “bringing food home to the table”. In this case the mother is out and the children are left to themselves, without the father. You can also read the pictures with a feminist lens. There is a man on a ship. Why couldn’t a women have been on a ship. This story can be analyzed quite deeply with the Freudian lens. The characters “the cat in the hat”, thing one, and thing two is thought to be the “id” of the story. All three characters create chaos in the house. They make a giant mess and show the children how to “have fun”. The superego of the story is known as the “fish”. Fish is tells the children this is wrong. You need to get rid of this cat. Which is funny because I though cats eat fish for food. The children are the ego because they just go along with what the cat in the hat, thing one, and thing two, or also known as the “id”. In comparison to the movie with Mike Meyers the rake is called a “hoe”.
This story leaves me with questions I can not figure out. Why does the cat ear a bow tie? Is he supposed to be wearing a tux? Why is the mother never shown completely?
The movie shows the story in more of a modern day way.
Mike Vigants and Trevor Martinhaus
We chose to analyze the book that goes along with the Disney classic: "The Lion King". For a book and movie that is loved so much it is truly understood so little. With the three main lenses there is much you can uncover in this classic tale. First off with a marxist lense. The book starts with the lions up on top of a large mountain looking down upon the rest of the animals, showing that they are supirior. Lions are superior because they are the most powerful, not necessarily the smartest, but the stronges and most handsome, making them the leader even if they are not truly the best for the job, much like in real politics today, where the face often gets elected not their ideological beliefs. In fact scar, the uncle of mufasa, is much more clever and maybe would be better off to lead, but his dark complexion and meager size gets in the way of that. He has the class mobility mentally but not physically. Much like the superstructure of our government where african americans have a harder time getting elected because of their race. Even now Obama is criticised more than any president ever has been, and it probably has something to do with his race, not just his ideas. The coup in the book aslso is very interesting where it has to do with a lot of what they talk about in 1984. in the book it says there are three classes, high, midle and low, and they are in a constant strugle to keep and gain power therfore exchanging places forever. Mufasa would be the upper, royal class, assassinated and loses power. Scar would be the midle class, not royal, but still smart and not poor, and seeking power wants to exchange with mufasa, the Hiennas would represent the proles, not smart enough to think for themselves but when led in the right direction a very powerful force. Also the Hiennas are looked upon in a bad light just like the proles in the book. The difference between the two is that in 1984 the power will never be exchanged which seems like it would stop a lot of bad things from happening but it is not worth the cost of constant surveilance, fear, and hatred.
From a Frudian lense you can also see alot. The mountain where they start is very representative of a penis. It is erect and proud and strong, showing that Mufasa is leader because of his physical prowess and atributes. Later in the book you see Symba in the forest and he is not sure of himslef and almost seems ashamed. Next to him in that picture there is a log that is also phallic but is entirely different in its meaning. It is sloping downward,not erect but limp, symba is turned away from it because he is ashamed, but is definitely has potential, it is not a twig. His superego is controlling him making him think of the risks and tha what iffs of his return back home. But eventually his id wins the battle and he overthrows scar. Returning the politicle system of the mountain back to normal with royalty ruling once again.
My partner in thoughtcrime Cody Hausman and I are quite possibly the best analyzers of the children's book GO DOG GO to ever exist. The book can be looked at with all three lenses but mostly with the marxist and Freudian lenses. The book is about dogs that follow their ids and that are considered to be in the upper class.
In the beginning of the book the dogs are shown waking up in a king size bed which could be used with a marxist lense to show that maybe they are royalty. Throughout the book the dogs are following their ids and when a bird tells them to stop they are angered because they cannot follow their ids which tell them go dog go. On one page their is even two dogs rowing an upper class dog around showing the wealth of the upper class dog. At the end of the book the dogs follow their ids by having a dog party in which everything they ever wanted is at the party.
Roeder
I chose to analyze Runny Babbit. It is a book that mixes up words and letters to make children think. It can be looked at through all three lenses especially the Marxist. Runny is a rabbit from a poor family trying to be better than his families money status. It also shows his mother cooking and cleaning in a feminist lense. The only other females all his little girlfriends. Through the Freudian lense he has many big dreams of becoming more than he is such as a king or a prince. He dreams big throughout the entire book.
Austin Sumner
I'm doing my 200 words for me and Dan Nelson's, "Ahoy There, Little Polar Bear."
Feminist- Their are no females in this story which kind of shocks me. This is a story of a polar bear that is caught in a fishing net, taken onto a ship, and heading a long way from his polar home, to the port. On the boat is a Cat named Nemo. They meet up with the rest of Nemo's buddies at the port and eventually finds his way back to his home.
Usually when people think of cats they think of them being females and dogs being males. I know this because i have a female lab and whenever someone meets her they say, "whats his name." For some reason in the story though their are no females what so ever.
Marxist- Looking through a Maxist lense one could say that this polar bear has left his "white" (pure), clean habitat to a place where things are much dirtier and their is more color diversity (the cats). You could compare this to a missions trip to haiti or something. Going from a civil place to a place with much poverty and a total different lifestyle.
Freudian- after Lars (the polar bear) meets Nemo on the ship. Nemo comforts him, gets him a meal, and then curl up next to eachother and fall asleep. I dont know why but this kind of reminds me of the film Taken. The foreigners just get off their plane and a greated by a kind native. He comforts them then turns on them eventually putting them into a prostitution ring. This is sketchy to me to think that the two, Nemo and Lars, would be sleeping together hours after meeting.
Roeder
I chose to analyze Runny Babbit. It is a book that mixes up words and letters to make children think. It can be looked at through all three lenses especially the Marxist. Runny is a rabbit from a poor family trying to be better than his families money status. It also shows his mother cooking and cleaning in a feminist lense. The only other females all his little girlfriends. Through the Freudian lense he has many big dreams of becoming more than he is such as a king or a prince. He dreams big throughout the entire book. Jordan Meyers pointed out many phalic symbols throughout the book. Every page of the 89 has some sort of disturbing content. After analyzing these books I feel I need to shelter children from them.
Shad Smith
We decided to analyze the short story “Harrison Bergeron”. Harrison Bergeron” is set in the future, when Constitutional Amendments have made everyone equal. There is no Marxist lens because they are preventing the Marxist lens by limiting the ability of people who have more potential to become wealthy by handicapping them. Everyone is the same so how could there be a Marxist lens.People are made equal by devices which bring them down to the normal standard level in the story, which is actually below-average in intelligence, strength, and ability. From a Feminist lens women need much more handicaps to reduce there beauty.
Kashi & Dylan 7th period
The book we chose to analyze is "The three little pigs"
Marxist: In the copy i read for the three little pigs in the pictures it shows the wolf looking really cocky witha smirk on his face when he is approaching the pigs house of straw and he has a top hat on, the top hat is huge it shows he could be wealthier and he is obviousle in the high class of society while the pig looks to be a pauper, social interactions of different classes. So when the wolf rolls up on the house with thats made of sticks it shows a picture of a pig in a cabin deal with a sign that says "no parking and no wolves" and the wolf has this malicious grin on his face and as you can very well imagine the pig says"no i will not let you in not by the hair of my chinny chin chin" and the wolf huffs and puffs and blows him in. When the wolf comes to the brick house the pig runs in and the whole chinny chin chin spheel goes about and when he tries to blow the house in it is a furtive effort so the wolfs thought is "This is a clever pig i must pretend to be his friend" so when the higher class wolf cant opress the poorer pig with meer force he gets more cerebral and attempts to befriend the pig by taking him to a farmers field to pick turnips at 6:00, so the next day the pig goes there and picks the turnips and when the wolf shows up at 6:00 and finds the pig has picked the turnips he is very angry but doesnt show it and the wolf continues in trying to decieve the pig and eventually the pig catches him in a kettle of boiling water as the wolf is coming down the chimney, this is the jist of the plot the reason it is marxist is because how the wolf is portrayed as a richer person wearing a top hat gold brimmed opressing the poor farmer pig yeah its not much but its the only lense i could figure to use.
Jessi Lunstra and Amanda Hardick pd. 5
We analyzed the children's book, Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers. Overall, this book used the Freudian, Feminist, and Marxist lenses. The first page shows a marathon being ran by male dogs. Through a feminist lens we see that the girl dogs are on the sidelines cheering when some girls could be just as good as the boy dogs. We also see through a Marxist lens that there is a smaller dog with a stopwatch and dress clothes standing at the end of the race symbolizing his power and authority over the other dogs. On the next page, there are pigs dressed like pirates and police officers. This is ironic because in pirate movies there is sometimes pigs on he dinner table and a common name for a cop is a pig. There are also Siamese cats on this page, dressed in proper dresses and they are usually owned by upper class people. A few pages later, there is a moose bowling. Under a Marxist lens, we see the class rankings. Mose usually symbolize the lower class, as does bowling because it is cheap entertainment. Turning a couple more pages, we see an urban scene with building, sidewalks and taxi cabs. This also shows he class rankings. The city usually pertains to the rich but in every city there are lower class people too. We also noted that the cab driver looks like a Arabian snake or lizard which shows the usual ethnic background of cab drivers. A few pages later, we are shown a winter scene. There is a yak trying to ski but failing miserably. Through a Marxist lens, we see that the yak doesn't seem to belong in the upper class sport. On the next page, there are fish eating at a diner. Usually fish are eaten as a delicasy like caviar, but in this picture they look like grubby truckers with nothing better to do. Also through a feminist lens we see that the waitress is a female, which is a gender role. He next page shows a beach scene with rabbits. Through a Marxist lens we see them surfing, which is free and fun, more for the lower class. We also noticed that there are different colored rabits, could it be racial? The white female rabbit is under an umbrella, when the rest are not. He next page can also be analyzed by the Marxist lens through it's class differences. There is a lamb and a ram, both in the same family of animals. The sheep is inferior, in this picture, to the ram because the ram has horns. We can relate this to our high school life too, in the fact that srawnier guys are intimidated by buffer, more muscular guys. Turning to the last page, there is a little boy lying on top of a cloud shaped question mark that says, "But tell me what you see? It's your dream--not mine!" Through a Freudian lens, we notice the dream reference and the fact that anyone can dream about whatever they want.
Jessi Lunstra and Amanda Hardick pd. 5
We analyzed the children's book, Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers. Overall, this book used the Freudian, Feminist, and Marxist lenses. The first page shows a marathon being ran by male dogs. Through a feminist lens we see that the girl dogs are on the sidelines cheering when some girls could be just as good as the boy dogs. We also see through a Marxist lens that there is a smaller dog with a stopwatch and dress clothes standing at the end of the race symbolizing his power and authority over the other dogs. On the next page, there are pigs dressed like pirates and police officers. This is ironic because in pirate movies there is sometimes pigs on he dinner table and a common name for a cop is a pig. There are also Siamese cats on this page, dressed in proper dresses and they are usually owned by upper class people. A few pages later, there is a moose bowling. Under a Marxist lens, we see the class rankings. Mose usually symbolize the lower class, as does bowling because it is cheap entertainment. Turning a couple more pages, we see an urban scene with building, sidewalks and taxi cabs. This also shows he class rankings. The city usually pertains to the rich but in every city there are lower class people too. We also noted that the cab driver looks like a Arabian snake or lizard which shows the usual ethnic background of cab drivers. A few pages later, we are shown a winter scene. There is a yak trying to ski but failing miserably. Through a Marxist lens, we see that the yak doesn't seem to belong in the upper class sport. On the next page, there are fish eating at a diner. Usually fish are eaten as a delicasy like caviar, but in this picture they look like grubby truckers with nothing better to do. Also through a feminist lens we see that the waitress is a female, which is a gender role. He next page shows a beach scene with rabbits. Through a Marxist lens we see them surfing, which is free and fun, more for the lower class. We also noticed that there are different colored rabits, could it be racial? The white female rabbit is under an umbrella, when the rest are not. He next page can also be analyzed by the Marxist lens through it's class differences. There is a lamb and a ram, both in the same family of animals. The sheep is inferior, in this picture, to the ram because the ram has horns. We can relate this to our high school life too, in the fact that srawnier guys are intimidated by buffer, more muscular guys. Turning to the last page, there is a little boy lying on top of a cloud shaped question mark that says, "But tell me what you see? It's your dream--not mine!" Through a Freudian lens, we notice the dream reference and the fact that anyone can dream about whatever they want.
Justin Van Santen and Charlie Sellers
For the partner in thoughtcrime project we chose the book, The Napping House by Audrey Wood. We were able to use all three of the lenses to understand all the aproachments and understandings to this novel. This book starts out with a grandma sleeping on a cozy bed in a cozy house where everyone is sleeping right away I am wondering how she got such a cozy bed, where did she work what did she do to get this bed and this cozy house where she can sleep no problem, or I wonder what she has been doin all day to get this tired and what have the others been doing to get just as tired. As the story goes on a child sleeps and the grandma then a dog sleeps on the child, a cat sleeps on the dog, and a mouse sleeps on the cat. The flea bites the mouse and it causes mass kaios. I first analyzed this book with a marxist lense, i first noticed the social tensions. Though they are all sleeping the grandma who would be the upper class would be the most uncomfortable because everyone is on top of her. The mouse (lower class) would be the most comfortable because it is on everyone so it has a giant pillow. Next I analyzed this book with a feminist lense. The only sex of the characters that we know of is that grandmothers, she is the only woman in the story and she is the one who is on the bottom of the pile on the bed. We dont know if there is a man in the story or a husband to the grandmother. He could be in a different room with huge bed and no one is there to bug him. In this novel the only woman that we know of or that is in this book has limited power. Finally I analyzed this book with a freudian lens. Throughout the book I noticed that the grandmother always has her mouth open, though grandmothers ususally arent involved in sexual activity, the fact that throughout the whole book she has her mouth open could be taken as somthing sexual. With this book I am able to use all three of the lenses on some basic analyzing, the yellow handout helps me analyze and think more critically, it tells me exactly what to look for in the books and what lens to catagorize each part of the book under. I am able to use the handout and use the lenses with no problem at all.
Brandon Olson
My group did our thought crime on THE SNEETCHES by Dr. Suess. Its starts out explaining how these creatures are divided into two different classes. The Sneetches with green stars on their belly and the sneetches without green stars on their belly. In relation to this i pointed out through a marxist lens that the two classes relate to how a lower class and an upper class in a system. Sneetches with the green star on their belly are shown happy and far more superior to the sneetches without a star. They do not associate nor talk to ones without. Sneetches without a star are found miserable and outcasted. Sneetches without a star simply represent the poor class. Then a huge red car with Mcmonkey McBean shows up and scams them by making the poor so called sneetches pay three dollars and they will too be turned into sneetches with stars. But the rich snobby ones with stars find this sickening and are willing to pay even more to change themselves to have without stars(rich as they are they pay more such as ten dollars and the scam continues). Its as if its representing the phrase "money buys happiness" and indeed for these sneetches it does. Back in forth the two classes spend all their money until they are scammed broke poor. Mcmonkey scams them and takes all their money creating them eqaually weather they hav a star or not kind of like communism. In the end they are so confused on who started with a star or not that they became to friends with all since all are equally without money and with sort of class. This highly shows how communism is put into effect, power all to one dude with the red car and leave the rest equally. This book shows kids i think the matter of why social classes are bad and you could even relate this to a clique in school how we seperate and associate to different people in our reasonable standards.
The book that I chose is "Love you
Forever" by Robert Munsch.
Marxist lens:
By looking through a marxits lens you can really look at the system that the two characters are in. The family that is depicted in this book is a loving and caring system. The family appears to be a middle class family that cares about each other a great deal. This family system is perfect for the the 2 characters it gives them the opportunity to care for one another.
Feminist lens:
By looking through this lens it creates a lot of questions. The mom is one of the main charcters and then their is a son. THere is no father in this story. Does that mean he left or died? If there was a father figure in this book it might take away from feeling of the story. The mom is a more emotional figure in the book and it creates a more realistic personal feeling to the book. The way the mother kind of stalks the boy after he leaves does that make the mother crazy? she could be possibly losing her mind there could not been another male figure to comfort her. She could also be crazy in love with her son and just want to care for him always. the gender expectations for a women are to care for there young but does this women go to far? throught out the book the characters slowly switch roles and the son becomes more of the caring one that wants to see his mom. the mom gets old and becomes baby like and the son goes and cares for her. also since there is only 2 characters and their is not male figure other than the mom is the mom filling a male role too? there never is a father figure in this book does that make the mother tougher and if so she still has a gentle/caring side? the mother seems to be filling two gender roles of the father and mother. this mom at first doesnt seem to wierd or creepy but as the book goes on it does kind of get wierd and creepy. with her driving to her sons house to rock him does that show that the women is single? and has no other male figure around.
Freudian lens:
this lens can look at the minds of the two characters. They both love each other and care for each other. They won't stop at any cost to say they love each other every night.
Charlie Sellers_6
Justin VanSanten and I decided on the book "The Napping House", by Audrey Wood.
When looking through a Feminist lens there is only a few things that I noticed. On the cover of the book, there is an older looking woman with her legs spread wide open. To me, this looks a little awkward to be in a children's book because usually people see that cover and are shocked to see some woman with her legs spread wide open like that. But a good thing about the old lade is that she is completely covered up showing that females can be conservative in bed. It also shows hegemony, how she is the base of the one on the bottom of the bed while everyone/everything is piled on top of her with no oppression.
When looking through a Marxist lens there is not a lot that i noticed. The Marxist lens shows how some different classes like, humans, dogs, cats and so on, but they are all interrupted from their slumber because a flea interrupts them all and they cannot go back to sleep.
When looking through a Freudian lens there is a few things that I noticed. The superego of the humans, dog, cat, and mouse make them just stay asleep and not wake anyone up. But of course there always has to be an id. The flea could not control its id and bit the mouse which ended up waking everybody up.
Nick and I have deconstructed the childrens book, Bearnstines Bears and the Bad Dream. In this book all of the critical lenses can be used in an effective way.
As the name of this book implies the Freudian lens can be used towards this novel, mainly because the entire book is about dreams. Both of the children in this book suffer from night mares caused by things that they had seen the previous day. This goes along with the freudian lens that all things in dream have a reason.
Using the Marxist lens one can come to see the structure of the bear family. In order to recieve something the child needs to work and make money.
Using the Feminest lens this book can be seen as a favoritism towards the females. The daughter only has to play one game while the brother has to play three in order to make up for her playing a game of his choosing. Also, the parents of the Bears go to the movie with the daughter and leave the son to fend for hisself. Another Femenist way to look at this book is that the girl is unable to play with a toy because she is scared of it. The brother mocks her because she is afraid of a dream. The girl plays games that are traditionaly "Girl Games" and looks down upon anything that does not meet her standards. The mother in this story is always doing a "Womenly" chore like cooking, cleaning or the like. While the husband reads a paper the entire time.
The children’s story that Danny and I decided to analyze was the classic Goldilocks and the Three Bears. This story has been told many times to us as children; however, it is very interesting to note how when this seemingly innocent children’s story is viewed through the various lenses, this classic tale takes on a new light.
Freudian: Through this lens, Danny and I figured out how Goldilocks must not be to happy with her own life. This example is seen many of times throughout the story; the first time is when the reader, being introduced to Goldilocks, finds herself in the domain of one of the most fearsome creature on Earth, the bear. This simple description can infer that she leads a dull life, and how her Id is creating a highly imaginative world. A second inference can be made concerning Goldilocks’s life and how she might be seen as a child that is affected by the possibility of a new child and the bears representing her parents with the new child. This can be made evident by Goldilocks trying out the three different items, three different times. The first two of the porridges are too hot while the last is just right; this is also seen with the bed and the chairs; however, she breaks the last chair, even though it is “just right”, thus showing how she is much to big for her possible “baby chair”.
Feministic: In this lens, Danny and I discovered the stereotypical roles the bears play in the children’s story. The father bear is very much the leader of the household as he is takes charge of the situation and how he growls about the recent discoveries in his household. The mother bear is the complete opposite of the father; as she discovers the catastrophe that had occurred; not only does the mother bear do this, but the baby bear reacts just like a normal child would in that situation; however, the reader can also infer that the porridges are symbols for the various family roles. The father’s porridge is much to hot for Goldilocks, the mother’s is much too cold, and the baby’s is “just right”. This simple comparison makes the reader realize that for Goldilocks (a child of probably six or seven), the father’s porridge is off-limits because of how much power he has, and she does not like the mother’s because she is too young for that, yet Goldilocks enjoys the baby’s items because she can most likely relate to him.
Marxist: This was the final lens that was used in this project. Throughout this story we constantly see monetary situations and issues that the characters face. The bears can most likely be seen as the middle-class family, yet they are happy with their lives; but when Goldilocks comes, she is most likely the upper-class coming to intervene in the middle-class life. Also, looking at the history of this story helps make better usage of the lens. This story was originally written by the Brothers Grimm, which was during the 1800’s in Europe. This history helps relate the bears to the Proletariat party (working class) and Goldilocks being of the upper-class interfering in their daily lives, much like 1984 and the constant struggle between the Proles and the Party. Another interesting fact that we picked up using this lens, is the name of Goldilocks. If you break the name down you get “gold” “locks” (as in hair); which shows wealth and power, because if a person had blonde hair, they were said to be genetically perfect, which is similar to Hitler’s view of the perfect race (Aryans).
-Danny Sellers and Matt Thompson Pd 6
Anne Christensen and Justine Turbak
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
This book can be analyzed through a Marxist, Feminist, and Freudian lens. The first page of the story has a picture of Alexander standing in his room with his arms crossed looking angry. His room is very messy. You can see toys scattered about all over his floor and his bed covers astray. In the background there is the door to a bathroom. A Marxist lens tells you that he could live in a rich family because he has a bathroom in his bedroom. The toys scattered about on the floor suggest that his parents are not very strict. A Marxist lens tells you that they are too busy working for a living to tell Alexander what to do, possibly. Through a Feminist lens you notice that Alexander has two brothers and no sisters. Boys tend to be seen as stronger and they will keep the family going. Judith Viorst may have done this on purpose to get that point across. One page has a mother driving the children to school and they are carpooling. Alexander is unhappy that he is forced to sit in the middle instead of by the window. A Feminist lens tells you that the girls who get to sit by the window are more important than Alexander. Alexander’s school teacher is a woman. Women are sometimes more often seen as elementary school teachers and there tend to be less men working as elementary school teachers. This is fulfilling a stereotype and works with the Feminist lens. Also, in the picture where Alexander is at school, you see a young black girl. This is one of the only colored people in the book. A Marxist lens tells you that white people are the majority in schools. Later in the story, the mother takes the three boys to visit their dad at work. The boys get out of control and make a mess in their dad’s office. The mother is shown bowing her head in despair because of it. It is as if the mother is no longer an authority figure because the dad is around to take care of the children instead of her. This is a Marxist lens. One of the last pictures in the story shows the three boys in their bedroom. There is a poster that says “Kid Power!” The “I” in kid has a bed post going up through it. This could be a Freudian lens. The yellow handout helps us think more critically because we can better understand the three lenses. The examples and information about the lenses help a lot.
Jay Wright and Ryan Hansen, 7th THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME:
Marxist:
-Rainsford could potentially be seen as the working class (blue-collar job), matched up against General Zaroff, the upper class (white-collar job).
-The incredible amount of irony is displayed blatantly throughout this story: THE HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTED (cat and mouse; mouse = Rainsford, cat = Zaroff).
-Throughout the story, Zaroff is made out to be unhappy, bored, and quite unfulfilled. Only when Rainsford arrives does Zaroff find joy in life (and in the hunt) again.
-Richard Connell might have included a subliminal message to the reader when he wrote this short-story: WHAT GOOD IS BEING WEALTHY IF YOU’RE NOT CONTENT/SATISFIED/HAPPY?
-Ivan, General Zaroff’s assistant who does his bidding, represents the power and order that General Zaroff has.
-Back when TMDG was written, in 1924, it was still widely acceptable and popular to hunt wild game. It was not seen as poaching, as it is now. Additionally, in 1924, many people did not have thoughts of endangered species in the back of their minds, and even if they did, it wasn’t as big of an issue as it is nowadays.
-In this case, money DOES give Zaroff power, influence (over Ivan), freedom (he has his own island, isolated from society), and opportunity, but it DOES NOT give him happiness.
FEMINIST LENS
-There are no women represented in this story (or even mentioned, for that matter). This is ironic, seeing as how Richard Connell grew up with an older sister, two younger sisters, and no brothers. Perhaps Connell grew to reject his sisters, and aspired for more masculinity in his life, which may have lead to The Most Dangerous Game. Or perhaps he just grew bored of being around women all of the time.
-Does having no women in the story convey something? That women aren’t capable of hunting, or aren’t physically strong enough? Keep in mind that in 1924, women, along with many other groups, were still being oppressed and were not given an equal glance as of that of men.
-What would change/differ in the story if the protagonist was a woman? Would she be able to survive/think for herself if she were in Rainsford’s position? What of the antagonist? Would she still be rich if she were a woman in 1924? Would she still be savage enough to kill, daily?
-Perhaps this story would be better if women were the main characters, instead of men. Would the story still revolve around hunting, or perhaps it would switch to a hobby/popular event that women enjoyed/engaged in in 1924? No doubt that women could/can better control their savage instincts/emotions than men. They would most likely settle their differences instead of all of this mindless, useless killing/bloodshed/murder.
-Does it matter what gender the main characters are? YES!
FREUDIAN LENS
-While being hunted by Zaroff/Ivan/the hounds, Rainsford’s ego tells him to relax and to take a nap. The id also tells him that it is pointless to attempt to stay alive; Zaroff is too skilled at hunting; Rainsford can’t possibly keep up with Zaroff’s pace.
-The superego tells him to keep going, to never stop, and to listen to his primal survival instincts. For the most part, Rainsford listens to and satisfies his superego.
-Rainsford can be seen as the ego, deciding what to do with his complementary emotions.
-Zaroff’s superego tells him to let Rainsford and all of the prisoners go. His id tells him to murder them all in cold blood, in order to have some REAL fun.
-The gun that Zaroff has/knife that Rainford has throughout the hunt could potentially represent phallic symbols. Are Zaroff/Rainsford competing their penises/testosterone against one another, as subliminally seen in Star Wars?
The exhibit that Kashi and I choose to analyze was the children’s story of The Three Little Pigs. Using the Marxist lens on this story we we’re able to see and analyze that the pigs are split into different social classes, we saw this by looking at the pigs individual houses that they built. The first built his out of straw, the second built his out of sticks, and the third built his out of bricks. This clearly shows me that the first and second pig who built their houses out of straw and sticks where the lower or the Proletariat class, and the third pig who built his house out of bricks was a member of the bourgeoisie class. Being members of the Proletariat class gave the first two pigs a disadvantage and made them more susceptible to the wolf or other hardships in life, because of the lack of a nice house that represents wealth and power. Being rich or a member of the bourgeoisie class gave the third pig an advantage by allowing him to be immune to the wolf and all hardships, because of his wealth and power. Another aspect of this children’s story that you could analyze using a Marxist critical lens is when at the beginning of the book the pigs left their mother and went out on their own to seek riches. The first two pigs where lazy and took the path of least resistance by building below par houses, the third pig worked hard to achieve and build his house out of brick. Looking through a Marxist lens we can see that the harder you work the better chance at success you will have.
“The Three Little Pigs” can also be analyzed using a feminine critical lens. The wolf if examined by a feminine lens would reveal that he is playing the male gender role in the story. You can see that the wolf is playing this role, because he is bigger, tougher, and also a hunter in this story. The pigs if examined with a feminist lens would show that they are playing a female gender role, because they are the house keepers who cook, clean, and are much smaller than the wolf. If you analyze these gender roles you can see that the wolf that plays the male role is a predator to the pigs that oppresses and preys upon the pigs who are playing the female gender role.
"WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE"
Hilary Peterson and Kate Swenson 7th pd.
We analyzed this popular children's book through Marxist, Feminist, and Freudian lenses.
Marxist lens:
-The main character, Max, lives with his mother and possibly father(?) in a middle class household. The father isn't mentioned once in the book which could mean the mother is a single parent or that he's too busy 'bringing in the bacon' to make an appearance at home.
-The only power struggle shown in this short story is the one between Max and his mother. He feels he's being oppressed by her rules and wants a way out.
Feminist lens:
-The mother is never actually shown during this short story. Max and the reader can 'hear' her scolding him and telling him when it's time for dinner but that's all. After being sent to his room without supper, Max wakes up later to find his dinner on his nightstand, "still hot". This shows the mother fulfilling her "natural" gender role as a mother and a caretaker.
-Max is portrayed as a typical little boy who loves to cause trouble and chaos. He's even shown chasing the dog with a fork and hammering nails into a wall. He's fulfilling his "natural" gender role as a rambunctious young boy.
-In his dream, the wild things seem to have no gender. Maybe it's because at his young age, gender doesn't matter yet? Something to think about..
-As stated earlier, the dad is never seen or heard of. Could this be because he's too busy fulfilling his manly duties? Or is it a story of a single mother?
Freudian lens:
-There could be a possible "Oedipal complex" in the relationship between Max and his mother. His father is basically eliminated from the story and Max has his mother all to himself. -"Where The Wild Things Are" is all about Max fulfilling his own wants--he's being controlled by his id almost the entire time and more than half of the book itself is a dream. In this dream, Max is the king of the beasts and is in a state of narcissistic bliss. He has everything he wants--or so he thinks. But Max's id only lasts so long and he eventually realizes he wants to be: "…where someone loved him best of all." His superego kicks in as he decides to leave the land of the wild things and return home to his mother where he finds supper waiting for him.
For this project I analyzed Spongebob Squarepants lost in time: A Medieval Adventure with Trase. Using the various lens we determined some unique characteristics. Using a Feminist lens we found that Pearl, the princess of King Krabs, was totally depended on her father can be simple labeled as the damsel in distress character who must be rescued from an ignoramus jelly fish. I find it interesting that the strongest and smartest animal in the book, a whale, is portrayed as a weak simple minded princess. And her life is in the hands of a plant and a starfish?? Not the most conventional dominating predator of the ocean. The only other girl in the book in Sandy, a knight that must obey orders from Plankinton. As the women in the fight between her and Spongebob, she is easily defeated without much of a fight. A very sexist way of showing that men always dominate over woman. Now using a Freudian lens I remember hearing on the news that a man fell asleep with his son watching Spongebob and woke up looking upside down. As he looked at the TV show he thought he saw a penis and testicles and threw his son across the room to divert his attention away for this “absence” image. The man later tried and epically failed at removing the show from the air. Not sure if it’s Freudian or not but another thing that could be analyzed is the size of Plankinton; he is definitely the smallest “animal” in the show but he seems to have such a huge diabolical plan to destroy the Krusty Krab. His size could be considered to be directly proportional to his success at his plans and also maybe he is so aggressive and diabolical because he & his restaurant is always ignored and looked down by the citizens of Bikini Bottom. In a Marxist Lens this shows that the power and control of Krabs empire is under his claws and everyone else is his Peons. His daughter in the begging is also portrayed as a stuck up princess with everything seeming to be handed to her with a silver spoon. I don’t think young kids can grasp the unlikely animals roles in the film but they may feel like trying to act or be like one of the animals. This could be bad if they think that Pearls fits to get what she wants is a good thing to do to get what they want from their parents.
Autumn Brown Harlan Ellison “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman
Marxist Critical Lens
Just as 1984, this short story is a dystopian future featuring a middle aged man who has rebellious thoughts. The lower class people are not happy with the their wealthy governing body because it suppresses and doesn't recognize them. Their thoughts and feelings are shunned away from society. There are people that say that the people who would know how to run our country the best, are taxi drivers and Hair stylists. This is because these types of employees that listen and know what the average person thinks. One of the questions on the Marxist page asks if any of the characters climb the “social/economic ladder”. The answer to this in “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman is, sadly, no. No one is aloud to change their ways because they don't have enough time to do anything let alone think. The 'Ticktockman' or 'Master Time Keeper' oppresses their time and makes sure you do not have original thoughts. He kept track of all peoples schedules and calculated the “amount of life a person was aloud to have”. Are any of the characters “suffocated” by their class rules and codes? Yes, Of course! Just as the hand out states “money= power, influence, freedom, happiness, opportunity”. The bourgeoisie controls the government which controls the public, so indirectly the wealthy control the people. The lower class can not move up or do anything besides sit there and be poor.
Feminist Critical Lens
Who grants privileges to a gender? The TicktockMAN grants you your time. He watches your entire schedule and if you are late for any event he has the law on his side to punish because you'd be messing up the perfectly timed system. The Ticktockman seems to be an elderly man. Oppresion of the women is shone through two women. One of the woman you hear about in this book is Pretty Alice, who really wishes Harlequin would just quit getting into so much trouble. Another women you learn of is Georgette Delahanthy, whose husband is killed by the Ticktockman. It says that her “name was entered on the dole roles till she could remarry.” which makes her sound subjugated and insignificant. However this short story is considerate enough to give the women names.
Freudian Psychoanalytic Lens
Harlequin is defined as a clown or a buffoon, so we can assume that he listens to his id.
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