In the book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, there are a lot of themes that can be found and applied to the real world, even though this book is a fantasy book. These themes can help you deal with hardships in your life. An example of one theme would be the theme of love. The theme I will be talking about is that you have to go through the times where there’s sadness and the times where there’s happiness, because where there is sadness, there is happiness. Or in another term, when there is bad, there is good, or in vice versa. Essentially, there are two sides to a coin, and this coin is called life. The book describes very well how you have to go through with this theme and how the two are on the same coin. This theme is also amplified
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In this time, Edward “experienced his first genuine and true emotion. Edward Tulane was afraid.” (DiCamillo 47-48). He was without Abilene and didn’t know what happened. He compared it to “waiting for Abilene to come home from school.” (50). But it wasn’t. His head was stuck in the mud and he has no one there for him for hundreds of days. A storm comes and picks up Edward to where he eventually gets caught in a fisherman’s net and he meets Nellie and Lawrence. For Edward, “life, for a very long time, was sweet.” (66). This experience may feel like it cannot be shared because no one could survive at the bottom of the sea for days, but, because of this fantastical nature, it makes the experience even greater. This is because you may feel like you are stuck in the bottom of the ocean and there is no one around you. You may feel lost and not know what’s going on. You feel powerless, just like Edward, and can’t move out of the muck at the bottom of the ocean. You may feel some sort of relations with Edward. This could only be achieved through a fantasy book. The book then shows you that with patience and hope, happiness does …show more content…
Edward goes through so many bad times in his life. Seeing how Edward went through his bad and good trials, it allows you to have empathy for him. You can’t have empathy for someone when they have everything like Edward did in the beginning of the book. And without that empathy, we can’t connect with Edward. Connecting with him is vital because it allows us to put ourselves in his shoes and feel his emotions and understand his feelings throughout this roller coaster ride. So we have to see him go through the bad and the good. What this book does well though is showing that he goes through the bad to end up having a good time with something else. And the good is always something different, while the bad is always the same. That’s the benefit of going through the bad. Edward’s bad moments were always similar and it was similar because he always had to be separated from a person he loves. But when he gets through the bad experience, he experiences the good, and the good is always different. There was a different type of good with Abilene, with Nellie, and so on. He learned the difference between them and was happier. As mentioned above about the hero’s round, one element is that the hero matures. Edward matures through the story because of the bad things. He was able to lose someone and then find good again and reopen his
In this time, Edward “experienced his first genuine and true emotion. Edward Tulane was afraid.” (DiCamillo 47-48). He was without Abilene and didn’t know what happened. He compared it to “waiting for Abilene to come home from school.” (50). But it wasn’t. His head was stuck in the mud and he has no one there for him for hundreds of days. A storm comes and picks up Edward to where he eventually gets caught in a fisherman’s net and he meets Nellie and Lawrence. For Edward, “life, for a very long time, was sweet.” (66). This experience may feel like it cannot be shared because no one could survive at the bottom of the sea for days, but, because of this fantastical nature, it makes the experience even greater. This is because you may feel like you are stuck in the bottom of the ocean and there is no one around you. You may feel lost and not know what’s going on. You feel powerless, just like Edward, and can’t move out of the muck at the bottom of the ocean. You may feel some sort of relations with Edward. This could only be achieved through a fantasy book. The book then shows you that with patience and hope, happiness does …show more content…
Edward goes through so many bad times in his life. Seeing how Edward went through his bad and good trials, it allows you to have empathy for him. You can’t have empathy for someone when they have everything like Edward did in the beginning of the book. And without that empathy, we can’t connect with Edward. Connecting with him is vital because it allows us to put ourselves in his shoes and feel his emotions and understand his feelings throughout this roller coaster ride. So we have to see him go through the bad and the good. What this book does well though is showing that he goes through the bad to end up having a good time with something else. And the good is always something different, while the bad is always the same. That’s the benefit of going through the bad. Edward’s bad moments were always similar and it was similar because he always had to be separated from a person he loves. But when he gets through the bad experience, he experiences the good, and the good is always different. There was a different type of good with Abilene, with Nellie, and so on. He learned the difference between them and was happier. As mentioned above about the hero’s round, one element is that the hero matures. Edward matures through the story because of the bad things. He was able to lose someone and then find good again and reopen his