{"id":429,"date":"2022-03-02T02:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T02:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/?p=429"},"modified":"2022-03-02T03:01:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T03:01:41","slug":"blog-post-6-wild-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/03\/02\/blog-post-6-wild-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 6: “Wild” Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The meaning of the word \u201cwild\u201d can be contextualized across different pieces of literature. In The Good Lion<\/em> by Ernest Hemingway, there is a good lion from Venice who visits Africa on a trip and encounters many bad lions. The good lion regards the bad lions as uncivilized, and \u201cwild\u201d because they eat humans and lack proper manners. The bad lions view the good lion as pretentious, as he eats pasta\/wine and acts like he is above everyone else in Africa. The wildness in this story manifests itself in the nature of society in Africa and Venice, and the level of domestication it holds. The good lion is characterized as very tamed, as \u201cthe good lion would sit and fold his wings back and ask politely if he might have a Negroni or an Americano.\u201d The way he acts very polite and does not resemble a characteristic lion shows how he represents civilization. The bad lions \u201cwould roar with laughter and eat another Hindu trader and their wives would drink his blood, going lap, lap, lap with their tongues like big cats.\u201d They are seen to be unrefined in their manners, and act seemingly unhinged in a way that comes across as uncivilized. However, they act like how typical lions would in what they eat and how they act. Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are<\/em> presents \u201cwild\u201d in a pretty similar way. This story is about Max, a young boy who feels isolated and misunderstood. He escapes through his imagination on a journey with wild animals and nature. Sendak noted, \u201cand when he came to the place where the wild things are they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.\u201d The wildness in this context is similar in that the animals are untamed and barbaric. Max is seen taming the wild things with a magic trick, and he, himself represents civilization. \u201cWild\u201d could also be interpreted in the way this fantasy land is a representation of Max\u2019s fantastical, nonsensical imagination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In both stories, there are similar themes of traveling away from home and strong use of personification. There are clear dichotomies between \u201ctamed\u201d vs. \u201cuntamed\u201d for allowing the reader to understand the meaning of wild. Wildness exists in the undomesticated nature of the animals in both stories, and are similar in that aspect even though they are vastly different stories with different plots and characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The meaning of the word \u201cwild\u201d can be contextualized across different pieces of literature. In The Good Lion by Ernest Hemingway, there is a good lion from Venice who visits Africa on a trip and encounters many bad lions. The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","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\/429","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\/416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}