Winnie The Pooh Analysis

Although though one could argue that these disorders such as Pooh’s eating disorders, Piglet’s anxiety, and Eeyore’s depression have not been dealt with in a healthy way, Milne approaches them from a different angle. The stigma that surrounds mental illness in society is damaging to the people who suffer from them and forces them to stay silent most of the time. Winnie-the-Pooh is not a platform that deals with these disorders; it is a platform that teaches kindness, acceptance, and love. It is a reminder to the child reader that in life, s/he will encounter people who will be suffering, and it is important to provide support in order to give them the capacity to heal. When they are silenced, they are robbed of their voices; they are robbed …show more content…
It gives them the capacity to dream and experience these dreams within the safe boundaries of the Hundred Acre Wood. Given that this text is aimed at children between the ages of 4 and 7, it is an ideal world, safe and reassuring, which is how the world is in young children’s imaginations. However, as they grow older into young adulthood, they gradually start seeing the reality of the world; it is not the safe place their parents had tried to create for them; it is not the loving world they had believed in. As they shift into young adulthood, these beliefs start to collapse, and they start losing their agency to dream freely. Collin’s The Hunger Games highlights this growth and shift in …show more content…
She resists and reclaims her autonomy as much as she possibly can within her confines. An important declaration that Katniss repeats is that she will never get married, “I know I’ll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there’s one thing being a victor doesn’t guarantee, it’s your children’s safety. My kids’ names would go straight into the reaping balls with everyone else’s. And I swear I’ll never let that happen” (Collins 311). Katniss had no choice coming into this world and being doomed to be part of the Games, but she recognizes how awful it is to have this choice taken away, so she vows never to be the cause of such misery for anyone, which shows an attempt on Katniss’ part at retaining part of her

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