ARTICLE B Summary

ALICE, HUCK, PINOCCHIO, AND THE BLUE FAIRY:

BODIES REAL AND IMAGINED

Article B, “Alice, Huck, Pinocchio, and The Blue Fairy: Bodies Real and Imagined” is an article comparing, contrasting and summarizing the three famous children’s stories, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” “The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin” and “The Adventures of Pinocchio: Tales of a Puppet.”

“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” was written by Lewis Carroll: who was formally known as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. The article talks about the characters in the story are rude, ugly and have down-putting attitudes. Wonderland is a fantasy world of grown-up authority and power. Rosenthal (the author), insists that Carroll writes about these series of details because he’s relating it to his sexual failure, rather than Alice’s effort to learn about life. Rosenthal said that the long passageway, the locked doors, the key to a little door that opens onto an entrance small to pass through, the changes in size and the Dantean Pool of Tears; are subliminal messages of how Carroll’s sex life didn’t exist. In the books,“Through the Looking Glass” and “What Alice Found There” are basically the same thing as “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” but more intensified.

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin” was written by Mark Twain: formally known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens. The article summarizes some of what happened in the story and gives some background information about Huckleberry. He was the son of a drunk, who he hated. Huckleberry worshiped woman and girls and started dressing like one. He soon saw Tom Sawyer as his leader. Rosenthal explained how Huckleberry is the conveyer of Twain’s memories and observations. Rosenthal also said that Huckleberry’s psychological maturing beliefs blend in with Twain’s feelings.

“The Adventures of Pinocchio: Tales of a Puppet” written by Carlo Collodi: formally known as Carlo Lorenzini. The article gives a little summary about what Pinocchio is about and a background of him. His creator is Geppetto and obviously he’s a wooden puppet. Rosenthal compares Huckleberry Fin and Pinocchio, by saying that they are both awakened to compassion. In this story, adult consciousness repressed form is found in children’s literature. Pinocchio’s nose grows for the first time, when Geppetto carves it into existence; Pinocchio didn’t lie. The second time it grows, because Pinocchio is hungry. The third and fourth time, Pinocchio lies to the Blue Fairy then an old man. The ending of the book

The contrast between Pinocchio and Huckleberry Fin is the pressure of death and suffering. Pinocchio handles death only temporarily, after the Blue Fairy’s “supposed” illness and death. Pinocchio’s alter ego, Candleflame also dies and the little donkey who tries to warn Pinocchio. In Huckleberry Fin, his friends, Buck Grangerford and Boggs are shot and Pap Finn died.

Pinocchio’s body has been co-opted, Alice is happy to return back home and Huckleberry Fin is going to be adopted by his Aunt Sally.