Everyone needs to read this article, because it brings up the great point that not only is there a need for characters to achieve the inevitable idea of 'growing up,' but also that we need more literature about it. I will be seeing the new Winnie the Pooh movie, but I will probably cry like I did during the Search for Christopher Robin, because I'll be like "It's school and he's never coming back!!!"
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/07/13/137816699/will-christopher-robin-ever-grow-up?sc=fb&cc=fp
Oh dear, this article makes me cry. I doubt I have the stomach to see the whole movie!
ReplyDeleteOh, childhood, where did you go? Oh, childhood, why can you only stare back at me through the eyes of my stuffed animals. Their unblinking, no longer animate eyes. I can still hold you, though. I hold you with my Care Bears and Beanie Babies and the rest of the everlasting cast.
This makes me really sad too. Especially now that I have to get rid of 98% of my stuffed animals because I have to. IT'S NOT BECAUSE I'VE OUTGROWN YOU. IT'S BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T LIKE BEING IN A BOX FOREVER!
ReplyDeleteI told my dad about this movie. He's totally willing to watch it with me. He's also willing to watch 'Mr. Popper's Penguins' with me too. I love how my dad likes watching kids movies with me. In a way, it's like maintaining my childhood. Right?
That hits a little too close to home. That's how I feel. Always on the cusp of emotional maturity. I don't feel like I can be an adult and still read YA fiction and use curse words like "ball-sack monkeys."
ReplyDeleteIt's funny, I picked up the Fellowship of the Rings today because it was on Paul's bed, and Frodo is described as being in his "tweens."
Tweens being the in between year, the early twenties, before hobbits reach emotional maturity at 32. I feel like I'm in my tweens.