{"id":423,"date":"2022-03-01T18:59:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T18:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/?p=423"},"modified":"2022-03-01T18:59:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T18:59:10","slug":"wild-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/03\/01\/wild-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Where The Wild Things Are <\/em>and <em>The Good Lion <\/em>are completely different stories, yet they kind of have the same themes. <em>Where the Wild Things Are <\/em>kind of focuses on one\u2019s imagination and one\u2019s ability to think abstractly. In the book, it takes on a journey through the protagonist\u2019s eyes into the wild with wild animals. <em>The Good Lion <\/em>focuses on the wild in Africa. It talks about the differences in culture between Africa and Italy, as the wild lions in Africa eat humans, while the Good Lion is outcasted because of his wings and food choice of pasta and scampi. These stories are similar in the fact that they both have a lot of personification and symbolism. They are also similar because they both have this underlying idea of being away from home, or \u201cin the wild.\u201d The Good Lion literally travels away from his home in Venice, while the protagonist in <em>Where The Wild Things Are <\/em>figuratively travels away from home in his imagination.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One line I chose from <em>The Good Lion<\/em> that illustrates being away from home was, \u201cThey all roared in African Lion dialect. Then the good lion circled higher and higher and set his course for Venice.\u201d The first sentence represents the wildness of Africa, and the wild nature of the lions in Africa, as they all roared together trying to get the good lion. The good lion then used his magical wings to escape this wild place and head back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One line in <em>Where the Wild Things Are<\/em> that illustrates the wild place away from home was, \u201cMax stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye\u2026 and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him.\u201d He was forced to leave his wild imagination and his wild animal friends in his imagination as shown in the first sentence. The second sentence illustrates the reality of being present minded in his home, as his dinner was ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Major Wheless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where The Wild Things Are and The Good Lion are completely different stories, yet they kind of have the same themes. Where the Wild Things Are kind of focuses on one\u2019s imagination and one\u2019s ability to think abstractly. In the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/03\/01\/wild-literature\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}