When a fortuneteller’s tent appears in the small city of Baltese, a young boy named Peter cannot help but be drawn to it. Why one might ask? Well, there is one question that this little boy longs for the answer to, is his sister still alive? And if so, what is it going to take to find her? Peter then goes over to the tent and that is when the fortuneteller gives him two very simple answers to his question, she lives, and an elephant will take you to her. In her novel, The Magicians Elephant, Kate DiCamillo uses very detailed imagery every step of the way to focus the reader’s attention on the theme of hope and compassion. This story focuses on idea and the feeling of what hope means to a young boy named Peter Augustus. Some might go as far
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However one of the most important scenes that is able to portray the strongest sense of hope is a flashback from Peters past. “Peter started in the garden. He began his story with his father throwing him up high in the air and catching him.” An image that almost every reader is able to create over and over again in his or her head no matter how many times it is read. Flashbacks from when the reader him or herself was young, to thinking about the future with the child’s father showing this amount of compassion towards another human being. From the child’s point of view there is this sense of fear that you could fall straight to the ground but on the other hand there is also a sense trust in the person on the other end. So what was the purpose of starting in the garden and why give that image? Well, to most a garden represents new life and the start of something new. One is able to then picture little green plants everywhere slowly beginning to bloom and grow into something greater. There is hope that everything with turn out healthy and work the way it was supposed to, but in order to have this healthy garden one must show it a great deal of love and compassion. Beyond just the plants beginning to grow is the color green, which symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. The passage then continues with “He began with his mother dressed all in white, laughing, her stomach
However one of the most important scenes that is able to portray the strongest sense of hope is a flashback from Peters past. “Peter started in the garden. He began his story with his father throwing him up high in the air and catching him.” An image that almost every reader is able to create over and over again in his or her head no matter how many times it is read. Flashbacks from when the reader him or herself was young, to thinking about the future with the child’s father showing this amount of compassion towards another human being. From the child’s point of view there is this sense of fear that you could fall straight to the ground but on the other hand there is also a sense trust in the person on the other end. So what was the purpose of starting in the garden and why give that image? Well, to most a garden represents new life and the start of something new. One is able to then picture little green plants everywhere slowly beginning to bloom and grow into something greater. There is hope that everything with turn out healthy and work the way it was supposed to, but in order to have this healthy garden one must show it a great deal of love and compassion. Beyond just the plants beginning to grow is the color green, which symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. The passage then continues with “He began with his mother dressed all in white, laughing, her stomach