In both \u201cWhere the Wild Things Are\u201d by Maurice Sendak, and \u201cThe Good Lion\u201d by Earnest Hemingway, the idea of \u201cwildness\u201d is integrated into both stories, although in different ways. In the former, the word \u201cwild\u201d is not only in the title, but it is also on almost every descriptive page in the book. There are \u201cwild things\u201d and they are acting \u201cwild\u201d during when Max cried, \u201clet the wild rumpus start!\u201d By including the word \u201cwild\u201d so much in the story, Sendak forces the reader to consider the definition of \u201cwild\u201d to be connected to one\u2019s imagination, since the premise of the story is that we are party to a boy Max\u2019s imaginary \u201cwild things.\u201d With this, the term wild is, for the most part, used with a positive connotation. While the actual word \u201cwild\u201d is used many times in \u201cWhere the Wild Things Are,\u201d the word is used as more of a concept in \u201cThe Good Lion\u201d rather than Hemingway including the actual word. In the short story, the Good Lion, who is \u201ccultured\u201d and only eats human food, visits Africa, where he meets native lions there that eat other animals and humans. During this visit, the Good Lion thinks, \u201cwhat savages these lions are,\u201d which shows that the Good Lion does not think highly of these lions that are, what Hemingway would consider to be, living in the wild, thus painting the term \u201cwild\u201d in a negative connotation. The word in this negative connotation is being connected to the word \u201csavage\u201d that the Good lion used to describe the wild African lions. While the word \u201cwild\u201d in both stories is used to describe personified and made-up creatures, the light that is painted on the creatures of each story is very different from each other. While both the African lions and wild things are considered to be uncivilized in the stories, the Good lion wants to get away from the \u201csavage\u201d lions while Max wants to be with the wild things, until the end where both of their feelings switch towards the creatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In both \u201cWhere the Wild Things Are\u201d by Maurice Sendak, and \u201cThe Good Lion\u201d by Earnest Hemingway, the idea of \u201cwildness\u201d is integrated into both stories, although in different ways. In the former, the word \u201cwild\u201d is not only in … Continue reading