A children's classic, When the Sidewalk Ends, has both an interesting premise along with a very intriguing author. Shel Silverstein was a man of many hats and tricks up his sleeves.According to Biography.com, before he even started on writing, during the 1950’s he was enlisted in World War II. During this time in the war, Mr.Silverstein started working on comics strips for a military newspaper. This is what help Mr.Silverstein has his foot in the door for this creative career. Though his job as a comic artist, he starts to explore in writing and even his own music. As he continued his work, an editor named Ursula Nordstrom convinced him to starts writing material more suited for children. Mr.Silverstein then started to write a few books till his most famous children's book was born, a book titled The Giving Tree was born. To expand this topic this paper shall be analyzing this paper on themes of imagery, plot, and art of this piece.
Starting off, this imagery of this poem displays a transition from a happy tone to a more solemn one. This book was declined by most publishing companies due to it’s darker and realistic nature of humanity. This is shown his such lines like …show more content…
This poem seems to be portrayed with some of the good, there is also going to be the bad. The acceptance of that is illustrated in such lines like, “To the place where the sidewalk ends.Yes, we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go”(Silverstein, Shel). It provides an image of what going to another stage of life is like. Mr.Silverstein, like started before from Biography.com, was a comic artist. The physical drawing to portray this a little girl and boy looking over an edge with a puppy stuck in the sidewalk. It goes well with the this is about childhood. Whatever this piece may be about, the art is shown in this piece, metaphorically and quite literally is a site to
Starting off, this imagery of this poem displays a transition from a happy tone to a more solemn one. This book was declined by most publishing companies due to it’s darker and realistic nature of humanity. This is shown his such lines like …show more content…
This poem seems to be portrayed with some of the good, there is also going to be the bad. The acceptance of that is illustrated in such lines like, “To the place where the sidewalk ends.Yes, we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go”(Silverstein, Shel). It provides an image of what going to another stage of life is like. Mr.Silverstein, like started before from Biography.com, was a comic artist. The physical drawing to portray this a little girl and boy looking over an edge with a puppy stuck in the sidewalk. It goes well with the this is about childhood. Whatever this piece may be about, the art is shown in this piece, metaphorically and quite literally is a site to