Anthony Browne’s Voices in the Park is a complying illustrated story of how each person takes a different perspective on the same situation or person. However, Browne’s moral dives deeper as the illustrations detail how the attitude of a person can, not only, change an individual’s outlook on life, but importantly change those around them. Browne conveys this message not only through text, but also relies heavily on his illustration of each voice’s perspective to create a complex story through a simply narrative and detailed illustrations.
For example, the son, Charles, sees the park as in the beginning of his journey as dark and lonely standing in his mother’s shadow, looking around the dead trees with despair. He comments that his dog was …show more content…
In the time Charles disappears from his mother in the park and meets Smudge, there is a clear illustration of his outlook on life changing. Smudge asks Charles if he wanted to play, and as the two children stare at each other Browne creates a split picture of Charles’ gloomy world versus Smudge’s bright one. As they begin to play, Charles bleak world turns bright as they “[swing] on the climbing bars” and climb the trees. However, as Charles is called away from his new lively friend, his bleak world slowly returns as the sun …show more content…
It just kind of depended on the mood they were in” (Serafini). Browne uses the characters perspective of the park to shape how the reader views their attitudes. The children noticed elements of the illustration like “the flame on the tree might represent the mother being mad” (Serafini). One girl spoke of the differences of each voice illustration in depth, that the mother was “kind of gloomy” so the trees “were boring” and that the young girl was happy so “its spring, there’s flowers” (Serafini). She also noticed how Smudge changed Charles outlook on life through the illustrations, “when you go to the boy and the trees are dead…. They are dead except for when they’re together” (Serafini). Browne’s moral is clear and visible to readers as they observe his detailed illustrations that bring to life this complex
For example, the son, Charles, sees the park as in the beginning of his journey as dark and lonely standing in his mother’s shadow, looking around the dead trees with despair. He comments that his dog was …show more content…
In the time Charles disappears from his mother in the park and meets Smudge, there is a clear illustration of his outlook on life changing. Smudge asks Charles if he wanted to play, and as the two children stare at each other Browne creates a split picture of Charles’ gloomy world versus Smudge’s bright one. As they begin to play, Charles bleak world turns bright as they “[swing] on the climbing bars” and climb the trees. However, as Charles is called away from his new lively friend, his bleak world slowly returns as the sun …show more content…
It just kind of depended on the mood they were in” (Serafini). Browne uses the characters perspective of the park to shape how the reader views their attitudes. The children noticed elements of the illustration like “the flame on the tree might represent the mother being mad” (Serafini). One girl spoke of the differences of each voice illustration in depth, that the mother was “kind of gloomy” so the trees “were boring” and that the young girl was happy so “its spring, there’s flowers” (Serafini). She also noticed how Smudge changed Charles outlook on life through the illustrations, “when you go to the boy and the trees are dead…. They are dead except for when they’re together” (Serafini). Browne’s moral is clear and visible to readers as they observe his detailed illustrations that bring to life this complex