Beatrix Potter does a
great job at appealing to her younger audience by using cute, cuddly animals as
characters for her Books. The way she illustrates
each book only emphasizes the amount of lovability for each character. With these cute characters she is able to
entertain her audience while sill adding a moral for the children to
learn. There are two of her works in particular
that portray both Beatrix Potter’s way of capturing her audience and teaching
her audience a lesson in an entertaining manner.
“The
Tale of Tom Kitten” is one of my favorite children’s books by Beatrix Potter
because of the characters. Its main
characters are three adorable, little kittens that are forced to wear clothes
for their mother. Their mother wishes
the kittens to look nice for company so the kittens struggle to keep their
clothes on and clean. Most little girls
find kittens to be cute, cuddly creatures that they wish to touch; by adding
clothes to the kittens, not only creates more of the plot, but also adds to how
adorable the kittens are portrayed. Beatrix
Potter with the use of these cute character convoys the message that it is
important to listen to your mother. The
three kittens are required to wear clothes by their mother for company visiting
and she warns them that they must stay clean and that they should stay away from
the Puddle-Ducks. Even though the
kittens listen to their mother at first, they still end up getting dirty and
then losing their clothes to the Puddle-Ducks because of this they are punished.“The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit” is a story of two cute rabbits that any child finds adorable. However, this story even with these cute characters teaches the audience an important lesson. The fierce bad Rabbit is a mean rabbit and picks on the nice gentle Rabbit throughout the story. In the end of the book the fierce bad Rabbit pays his misdeeds by losing his tail to a hunter. This is how Beatrix Potter displays the lesson that if you cause misfortune to others that misfortune will befall you.
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