{"id":442,"date":"2022-03-03T01:51:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T01:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/?p=442"},"modified":"2022-03-03T01:51:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T01:51:43","slug":"blog-post-6-wild-in-literature-and-the-wild-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/03\/03\/blog-post-6-wild-in-literature-and-the-wild-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post #6: &#8220;Wild&#8221; in Literature and &#8220;the Wild&#8221; in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In both Hemingway\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Good Lion<\/em>\u00a0and Maurice Sendak\u2019s\u00a0<em>Where the Wild Things Are<\/em>, \u201cwildness\u201d is conveyed in both, but with separate meanings.\u00a0\u00a0In Sendak\u2019s\u00a0<em>Where the Wild Things Are<\/em>, wildness is depicted as animalistic and imaginative. In the beginning of the story, Max\u2019s mother calls him a \u201cwild thing\u201d with which he responds \u201cI\u2019ll eat you!\u201d This implies his wildness is mischievous and daunting. Later when he reaches the mysterious island, he finds that it is infested with \u201cwild things\u201d or beasts. In the picture book, they have fangs and claws, ready to demolish and destroy anything in their way, yet Max was able to tame the wild beasts. The repetition Sendak uses of the \u201cwild things\u201d is also noticeable as well. The type of wildness portrayed in this book is animalistic as seen with the creatures Max comes across, but there is also wildness in his imagination- as his bed room turned into a forest, he sailed on a boat for a year, and was able to tame their wild creatures. On the other hand, Hemingway\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Good Lion<\/em>\u00a0depicts wildness in a conceptual way demonstrated through good versus evil. The good lion escapes the dangerous lands in Africa which are full of evil lions that just want to kill him. Instead, the good lion is a \u201cpast-eating lion\u201d that has no intentions of killing for food. The wildness is also portrayed in the fact that a lion has wings, which ultimately help in his escape from the bad lions. The bad lions were seen as less than and \u201cuncivilized\u201d because of this therefore making a massive differential between good and evil. The wildness portrayed in\u00a0<em>The Good Lion<\/em>\u00a0is more hidden, more between the lines compared to\u00a0<em>Where the Wild Things Are<\/em>\u00a0as wildness here is used repetitively to describe the imagination and animalistic tendencies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~Audrey Wines <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In both Hemingway\u2019s\u00a0The Good Lion\u00a0and Maurice Sendak\u2019s\u00a0Where the Wild Things Are, \u201cwildness\u201d is conveyed in both, but with separate meanings.\u00a0\u00a0In Sendak\u2019s\u00a0Where the Wild Things Are, wildness is depicted as animalistic and imaginative. In the beginning of the story, Max\u2019s mother &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/2022\/03\/03\/blog-post-6-wild-in-literature-and-the-wild-in-literature\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","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\/442","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/wild-things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}