![]() Here’s a real world example of that sort of thing: Incredible story behind squashed Aussie home PARATEXT An old man in a house won’t move as the world changes all around him. There’s a clear link between “The Little House” and Pixar’s animated children’s film Up (2009). ![]() See: The Little House (1952) on YouTube Mary Blair’s concept art for the Walt Disney short, The Little House 1952 Notice as you read the mention of the moon, linking something small on Earth to something universal. He mentions it because of course Charlotte’s Web is another example of a feminine, domestic, circular structure. Peter Neumeyer in his annotated guide to Charlotte’s Web. ![]() In The Little House, the curvilinear lines of the illustrations represent not only the gender of the female Little House, and her surroundings in good times, but also the cycles, return, and renewal, the generation and the continuity, and the affirmations of life that are the theme of the book. “The shape of a story” is, of course, a metaphorical phrase, but it is one that connotes profoundly. Husband and Wife are of the Same Mind Chapter 1Ĭircular plot shapes tend to have a feminine feel and star female characters (but not always). ![]()
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