I agree with Brott that young children are strongly influenced by the books parents or teachers read to them or allow them to read. Since I’m small, I would read tons of illustrated books that primary focuses on how children, either in the form of human beings or animals, seek to exceed in life despite all the difficulties surrounding them. However, in my memory, there are not really any parents involve in any of the fairy tale stories. For example, in the three little pigs, the three pigs were left along to live in the miserable fill with wolves at an early stage. The brothers seem to never work together that they were always on a separate path and left along to suffer. Commonly portrayed in many stories, the youngest ones were always the smartest and toughest in the story. There are always a happy ending to every story. However during the course of the plot, family member of the protagonist were always faced with death or trouble that led the young reader like me to understand how certain choices in life are bad and foolish. The illustration is extremely interesting that there are never a single blood in the illustration despite it portrayed how pigs were swallowed by the evil wolf and died. The language it uses is also extremely optimistic that every thing would eventually turn out well if the characters were to make smart choices. Nothing is accidental that every time a person failed is due to that person’s own mistake. Now looking back at these stories, I find them to be extremely unrealistic.
Speaker: The speaker is the author who is a men and a father who has kids at the age of reading illustrated books
Occasion: The main occasion is the observation of a trend in children books that portray fathers as uncaring. Another occasion would be observation of the children’s bookshelves when he tries to find appropriate readings for his 2 years old daughter.
Audience: The audience is certainly for parents who have children at the age of guided reading from parents. Also, the audience is for book publisher to realize how the trend of the children’s book has negative stereotypical view of father.
Purpose: The purpose of the passage to illustrate how father are unfairly, negatively portray in children’s book as uncaring and seem to have less role in effecting children’s life than mother. He wants to show that these negative stereotypes are unrealistic that not all fathers are abandoning their family, despite some do. He wants parents to carefully select stories for their children in order to save the image of father and not to let their children to have this stereotypical mindset since an early age.
Subject: Father are portrayed unfairly as uncaring in children’s literature
Tone: The author’s tone is analytical that he carefully used details and examples to support his argument. He is quite anxious and worried about how father are portray as uncaring which he seeks to change by telling parents to not buy that kind of literature.
Question of Meaning
1. The thesis of the essay is “There is, however, one very large group whose portrayal continues to follow the same stereotypical lines as always: fathers” as stated in the beginning of paragraph 2.
2. Brott assume his audience to be stereotypical or just ignorant the fact that many fairy tales hold negative portray of father’s role in the story. I also fit into his assumption that I am totally unaware how father is portrayed in many fairy tales until I come across this unique essay.
4. Brott implies that after the essay has identify how certain fairy tales hold negative stereotypical view of fathers in the story, parents now have to then carefully select children’s reading in order to prevent their children from absorbing such unfair views of father. This way, we can eradicate discrimination at an early age.
Question on Writing Strategies
2. Reference to books for parents indicates that these stereotypical portray not only has an influence on children, it also influences the parents. This kind of book will only further create this kind of bad, uncaring father because father are expected to take less role in taking care of children than mother.
Question on Language
1. As stated in paragraph 3, caregivers are people who take care of kids by providing with materials goods and care for children by bouncing them around before putting them to sleep. However, nurturers are those who spend 24/7 around children and raise them with care. They constantly fulfill the needs of children and tell them stories and play games with them. Nurtures are those who participate in raising the children, not just giving them occasional care.
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