The whole time I was reading this essay I was either smiling, shaking my head, or had my jaw dropped. I was absolutely amazed by the level of analysis this scholar put towards a children’s book about a train. His breakdown of the controlling and capitalistic themes of Tootle made me feel I was reading an Analysis of Georgie Orwell’s 1984! I was thoroughly impressed with this researcher’s exploration of major themes of adult society such as education, adulthood, peer pressure, quantitative societal expectations, and even sin. While it was conceded that there is now true way to understand in aggregate what children derive thematically from this book (consciously or unconsciously),I found it interesting how the phenomenon of children’s
