Patrick Dwyer

Where The Wild Things ar As humans we instinctively recover the need and desire to belong. When we truly belong to something we achieve a understanding experience of acceptance, love and togetherness. Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is a childrens agree that explores the concepts of belonging and in contrast, not belonging. It is a very simple tale accompanied by large, rich pictures. The text and pictures complement severally other, each enriching the sense of alienation for the responder. grievous bodily harm is a mischievous young son who displays aspects of childhood irritation and loneliness. He lives in a humanness with restrain freedom as he is a child.It becomes clear to the responder through the positioning of the character on the page, the vector of the boys crazy gaze as well as the neutral, bland colours use that Max feels like he doesnt belong in the world he calls home. The pictures at the beginning of the story are quite unengaging compared to t he bright, luxuriously textured pages that follow. This sense of not belonging leads to Max fantasising and creating a unhurt new world within his resourcefulness. In this world Max is king, in that respect is no one to tell him what to do and how he must act. In this place Max is completely accepted and the most important social occasion of the wild things world.Max wears a wolf suit during the story, it shows the responder that Max is disguising who he really is and that the suit enables him to escape from reality. Whilst Max is wearing this suit he becomes a wild thing and he thinks that his behaviour is acceptable. Max is preciselyton his family away, but he is also wishing to obtain a sense of belonging, love and acceptance. He finds this sense of belonging with his new wild friends. passim the text, the composer portrays a range of emotions felt by Max. He finally gets what he wants, a place of unlimited freedom and acceptance, but still is not happy.He needs to be whe re someone loves him best of all. So he returns to the comfort and familiarity of his bedroom, where his mum had left his supper, still warm. Framing is an important visual element of Where The Wild Things Are as Maxs imagination grows, the illustrations get larger until they fill the whole page. Early in the book, sooner Maxs imagination takes him to the land of the wild things, we see a hand drawn picture of a wild thing temporary removal on his wall. He has thought about the wild things before and has been forming a plan in his mind.Max has often felt like he doesnt belong and has imagined belonging somewhere else, in an imaginary world where he makes all the rules and is king. The text regularly refers to Max as king, but he doesnt appear to be enjoying his job much. He looks sad, worldly and lonely and begins to long for his home, which is a place where he does belong. Where The Wild Things Are links quite closely to the sort out text Romulus, My Father. two texts contain an informative tone and both contain the central story of belonging. Both texts use imagery to represent the sense of not belonging, which wherefore leads to belonging.In Where The Wild Things Are the lack of belonging is shown through Maxs escape from reality, but accordingly the sense of belonging is shown through Maxs desire to return home, to which he realises is where he belongs. This links to the set text Romulus, My Father where the lack of belonging is shown through Romuluss softness to reduce the cultural barrier between him and the rest of the community, but then the sense of belonging is shown when the community look at how hard Romulus plant life and therefore appreciate him, in which he belongs. By Pat Dwyer