Why are authors so MEAN to their characters?
Update: 2023-08-25
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One of the things that my book club students often notice in children’s books is the Dead or Missing Parent Syndrome. In one class, we read:
- Roald Dahl’s Danny, Champion of the World: Dead mother
- Cornelia Funke’s Dragon Rider: Missing parents
- Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Secret Garden: Dead parents
- Diana Wynne Jones’s Charmed Life: Dead parents
- Kenneth Oppel’s Airborn: Dead father
- Kacen Callender’s King and the Dragonfly: Dead brother
- and just to top it off,
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