Where the Sidewalk Ends
Where the Sidewalk Ends is a collection of poems by Shel Silverstein. The book was published in 1974 and imminently got many great reviews. The book was published by HarperCollins which is one of the world's largest publishing companies. The Genre is Children's poetry and it really has no intended audience. The Theme of Where the Sidewalk Ends is basically where the sidewalk ends a world of great imagination begins. This book does not have just one plot but it has many imaginative plots. The setting is in a world “where the grass grows soft and white, and there the sun burns crimson bright” but For instance one of the poems takes place inside a lion. This book does not have one specific character but it has quite a few different ones as to which do not have a name. There are some names like the poem “Lazy Jane” or in the poem “pancakes?” it names “Good little Grace” and ”Terrible Theresa”. The title relates to the theme because it is saying a new world begins where the sidewalk ends.
The title, Where the Sidewalk Ends relates to the theme in a number of different ways. The theme of this book is that there is a new world that is created from imagination at the end of the sidewalk. The title and theme are basically the same …show more content…
This can't really happen because pants do not move on their own because they are inanimate objects In the poem “One Inch Tall” it says “To move a pen it would take all night (This poem took fourteen years to write ‘Cause im just one inch tall.) Which is not true because if you were one inch tall you would not be human. Another poem says “I’ve never washed my shadow out in all the time I’ve had it. It was absolutely filthy i supposed, and so today i peeled it off the wall where it was leaning and stuck t in the wash tub” That is something that can only happen in
Where the Sidewalk Ends is a collection of poems by Shel Silverstein. The book was published in 1974 and imminently got many great reviews. The book was published by HarperCollins which is one of the world's largest publishing companies. The Genre is Children's poetry and it really has no intended audience. The Theme of Where the Sidewalk Ends is basically where the sidewalk ends a world of great imagination begins. This book does not have just one plot but it has many imaginative plots. The setting is in a world “where the grass grows soft and white, and there the sun burns crimson bright” but For instance one of the poems takes place inside a lion. This book does not have one specific character but it has quite a few different ones as to which do not have a name. There are some names like the poem “Lazy Jane” or in the poem “pancakes?” it names “Good little Grace” and ”Terrible Theresa”. The title relates to the theme because it is saying a new world begins where the sidewalk ends.
The title, Where the Sidewalk Ends relates to the theme in a number of different ways. The theme of this book is that there is a new world that is created from imagination at the end of the sidewalk. The title and theme are basically the same …show more content…
This can't really happen because pants do not move on their own because they are inanimate objects In the poem “One Inch Tall” it says “To move a pen it would take all night (This poem took fourteen years to write ‘Cause im just one inch tall.) Which is not true because if you were one inch tall you would not be human. Another poem says “I’ve never washed my shadow out in all the time I’ve had it. It was absolutely filthy i supposed, and so today i peeled it off the wall where it was leaning and stuck t in the wash tub” That is something that can only happen in