TMA: Children’s literature
Peter Hunt: «To read a Children» book from childhood, Per haps as on escape from tee Stresses of adulthood, evades both the real now and the real them “ (13).
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Children literature is a rather recent genre that goes back 250 years ago.
It is a complex genre that includes works within for children audience, usually written in simple language, with a fairy tale opening, bright Pictures and Such amusing themes as adventures, Fantasy, magic, having allegorical characters (animals Speaking as humans) and children – isolate from their Parents- as Protagonists.
Although Children’s literature is targeted towards children as recipients, but …show more content…
How ever, many children's stories tackle implicitly such themes for example, Pullman's his Dark Materials trilogy introduces death sexuality, disobedience, rebellion and other themes that some adults may find irrelevant for children. Actually, I read Philip Pullman's Northern Lights (1995) twice. The first time was 10 years ago, during my preparatory education: I suppose, I was still a child at that time. During my reading g as a child , I was very amused by the bold adventure of the child female protagonist, lyra, the marvelous universe in which there is a split between the body and its demon, the witches, fantasy, travels and so on. That is all what I cared about the book. However, during my adulthood I came across the same book again and thought of revisiting it. Unconsciously, I approached it differently. I become more cautious to study the minutest …show more content…
As for as the themes are concerned, my reading as a child was limited to be enjoyed by the theme of quest and adventures of Lyre, and the suspense if she will succeed, or not, in rescuing the kidnapped children.
As an adult, I find out that the story is very rich with other serious thematic concerns.
First, the theme of freedom and knowledge.
The church tries to restrict people’s reaching Knowledge and to restrain their freedom for its belief that seeking knowledge was the major reason behind Adam and Eve’s disobedience to God.
As a result, they moved from the State of innocence in the garden of Eden to the garden of Eden to the State of experience on earth a state in the church’s view full of misery – Pullman resists authority and calls for a moral choice, a free will. Pullman depicts «Corrupt ecclesiastical and political authorities to whom allegiance would be evil» (Naomi wood, 268).
It Seems that Pullman holds the view that «instead of blaming the human desire for knowledge as the root of all sin, did the opposite and sought redemption through gnosis» (pagels, 1988, 68).
Further, Pullman is against submission to authority because it can be evil and