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The Kingdom Of John Analysis

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The Kingdom of John is an engrossing tale of a once happy kingdom pillaged by rebels. The adventure follows a child through their cancer journey using fairytales to explain difficult topics related to the sickness. This book is not delineated through the eyes of the little boy, but represented by his cells. The Kingdom of John is a metaphor for John’s body, and the inhabitants of the vast land are John’s cells. We explain the cell cycle and the cell functions as we would explain a human 's life. The audience for this story ranges from four to five year olds who, with the help of John, can understand how they developed cancer in a captivating way.
The story opens with the villagers communing in the square and doing their normal duties. The first two pages of the Kingdom of John represents how happy the residents of John are and how normal cells are supposed to act. In the next page we begin to describe the daily functions of a cell and start to introduce the cell cycle. Page five demonstrates how cells or the citizens of the kingdom contribute in many ways. For example, making food for the Kingdom exemplifies the ribosomes of the cell creating proteins and the protecting of John imitates the functions of the cell membrane.
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