{"id":665,"date":"2017-03-29T14:20:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T18:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/?p=665"},"modified":"2017-03-29T14:20:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T18:20:55","slug":"appropriate-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/appropriate-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Appropriate for Children?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Une Semaine de Bont\u00e9<\/em>… It’s taken me a long while to decide what to blog about this week because of the question mark that is this book by Max Ernst (if it should even be considered a book?).<\/p>\n

As a kid, I always gravitated towards darker stories, ones with black and white illustrations and not so friendly looking faces (think\u00a0Stories to Tell in the Dark\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Series of Unfortunate Events<\/em>). If I were to lump Une Semaine de Bont\u00e9<\/em> into a category, I would lump it with what I like to call my “creepy books meant for kids.” However, I doubt Ernst had children in mind when he created his five part collection.<\/p>\n

So with that I ask my main question, the theme of this blog post: could\u00a0Une Semaine de Bont\u00e9\u00a0<\/em>be read by children?<\/p>\n

My answer (and I’d love to hear yours too… whether you agree or disagree) is yes. I’ll even go further: I believe this book would be even better in the mind of a child.<\/p>\n

Let me explain. When I first starting flipping through\u00a0Une Semaine de Bont\u00e9<\/em>, before we got any background information from class, I had no clue what was going on. I concluded that this book was simply a collection of dark collages representing nightmares. No overarching story, just pictures of the same theme. In no way would I have been able to understand that the figures in the pictures were recurring figures. I never would have guessed that each day had a protagonist. Yes, there was a man who always had some sort of mammal for a head, but how was I to know that this mammal-headed human was the same person throughout?<\/p>\n

As an adult reader, I have enough knowledge to discern one animal print from another. My ability to distinguish between to images of animals is something learned. However, I believe that a child, someone younger who maybe is not as well trained at distinguishing the different details between mammal-headed figures, would see the mammal-human as the same character. If that person has an animal head, whether it be a bear or a lion or a cat, it must be the same character.<\/p>\n

As we age, we lose our sense of imagination and grow more and more logical. It is hard to except these strange images and connect them into a coherent story. But a child, I think would be able to come up with connecting dots to make the seemingly disconnected images of Une Semaine de Bonte<\/em> whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Une Semaine de Bont\u00e9… It’s taken me a long while to decide what to blog about this week because of the question mark that is this book by Max Ernst (if it should even be considered a book?). As a kid, I always gravitated towards darker stories, ones with black and white illustrations and not … <\/p>\n

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