THEME
Vardell notes that theme is a “sticky area” of contention in children’s literature circles. The debate ranges from those who seek deep meaning to those that argue that this doing so is an act of didacticism. One book that is safe from this debate is dePaola’s book because the value of self-sacrifice for the greater good of the whole is an obvious, some might say blatant, theme. When She-who-is-alone sacrifices the only memento left to her by her deceased parents she ends the long famine that has plagued the Comanche people.
Vardell notes that theme is a “sticky area” of contention in children’s literature circles. The debate ranges from those who seek deep meaning to those that argue that this doing so is an act of didacticism. One book that is safe from this debate is dePaola’s book because the value of self-sacrifice for the greater good of the whole is an obvious, some might say blatant, theme. When She-who-is-alone sacrifices the only memento left to her by her deceased parents she ends the long famine that has plagued the Comanche people.
DePaola, T. (1983). The legend of the bluebonnet: An old tale of Texas. New York: Putnam.
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