Children's Dissimilar Traits in Bridge to Terabithia
Children’s Dissimilar Traits in Paterson’s “Bridge to Terabithia”
I am going to analyze Katherine Paterson’s “Bridge to Terabithia” based on the characteristics that most children experience during their adolescence: their volatile states of mind, wild creativity, and audacious behaviours. In the beginning, the main character Jesse is depicted as an oppressed, yet artistic nine-year-old. At a very fresh age, not only does he have to face many problems in his family, particularly with his bad-tempered but overseeing dad, but that at school as well. He, nevertheless, gradually starts to put himself out indisputably soon after he meets Leslie, a cordial, outgoing girl of Jesse’s neighbourhood, and frequently bumps into her on the same school bus. His recurrent meeting her, however, develops their relationship to a deeper stage as they decide to spend time together after the school hours in this vacant area of the forest nearby, in which they invent an imaginary, life-like kingdom called Terabithia. Over time, their being inseparable, at length, discloses Jesse’s pent-up feelings, making him courageous enough to let go of his vexation. Another hint indicating such revelation is that when Janice, the irresponsible bully at Jesse’s school, and whom most juniors greatly dislike, alters from being brutal to everybody to be a more good-natured girl after the boy she intensely admires, Willard, dumps her in front of all her acquaintances, to which Leslie later gives her advice. Thus, the characterization shifting from being uncommunicative to approachable in Jesse, and that from cruel to tender in Janice, identify how unpredictable the states of mind they—respectively, children—may confront during their puberty. Throughout the book, I retrieve another distinct trait during the childhood phase: their wild imagination. Many clues showing that the children’s unlimited imagination is drawn in most parts, dominate my hitherto perspectives of children’s thinking ways. At
I am going to analyze Katherine Paterson’s “Bridge to Terabithia” based on the characteristics that most children experience during their adolescence: their volatile states of mind, wild creativity, and audacious behaviours. In the beginning, the main character Jesse is depicted as an oppressed, yet artistic nine-year-old. At a very fresh age, not only does he have to face many problems in his family, particularly with his bad-tempered but overseeing dad, but that at school as well. He, nevertheless, gradually starts to put himself out indisputably soon after he meets Leslie, a cordial, outgoing girl of Jesse’s neighbourhood, and frequently bumps into her on the same school bus. His recurrent meeting her, however, develops their relationship to a deeper stage as they decide to spend time together after the school hours in this vacant area of the forest nearby, in which they invent an imaginary, life-like kingdom called Terabithia. Over time, their being inseparable, at length, discloses Jesse’s pent-up feelings, making him courageous enough to let go of his vexation. Another hint indicating such revelation is that when Janice, the irresponsible bully at Jesse’s school, and whom most juniors greatly dislike, alters from being brutal to everybody to be a more good-natured girl after the boy she intensely admires, Willard, dumps her in front of all her acquaintances, to which Leslie later gives her advice. Thus, the characterization shifting from being uncommunicative to approachable in Jesse, and that from cruel to tender in Janice, identify how unpredictable the states of mind they—respectively, children—may confront during their puberty. Throughout the book, I retrieve another distinct trait during the childhood phase: their wild imagination. Many clues showing that the children’s unlimited imagination is drawn in most parts, dominate my hitherto perspectives of children’s thinking ways. At