Seven Day Terror Analysis

1. All stories seem to agree that children are chaotic and illogical to the brink of destruction, but ultimately contain the rawest form of humanity. I feel The Seven Day Terror demonstrates the randomness most evidently as Clarence actions are quite random, whilst original tied to some obscure form of logic, what has value to him, it moves quickly away from this as he started taking away houses, cars, and people. Maybe because they also held no value to him or anyone he truly cared about, or maybe because he simply can – because it’s fun. He and Anthony of It’s a Good Life, are both representations of what children do when in possession of power. Honestly, both are depicted as brats. But, Clarence used his power almost completely on his own volition.

Closer to animals due to the simplicity and immediacy of their desires, while I on the other hand believes that’s what makes them more human than the rest of us. What gives them the ability to penetrate the most complex adult façade. Each story also made a metaphor about childhood, for It’s A Good Life made childhood into a form of dictatorship where parents and adults are subservient to whims and emotions of their undisciplined child. Seven Day Terror made childhood appear as a chaotic adventure full of mishaps and misunderstandings that adds color to the adult life. In Mimsy were Borogroves, the author tried to use the dissemination 4th dimension intellect to turn the story into a sort of fable that asserts that you children will think differently and act differently than their parents. Whether it Mimsy stresses that parents should try to counteract this difference or facilitate this difference is unclear, I vaguely get the feeling that more discipline and attention would’ve prevent Paradine and Jane’s children from