EA300B Compare ‘family’ in Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and in Anthony Browne’s Voices in the Park.

Outline

Research question

Compare ‘family’ in Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and in Anthony Browne’s Voices in the Park.

Thesis Statement

There are differences and similarities in the representation of family in Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and in Anthony Browne’s Voices in the Park differs in many ways that depend on different elements and conditions.

Topic sentence

There is a difference between the traditional representation of family (The Tale of Peter Rabbit) and the postmodern one (Voices in the Park).

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There is diversity in the representation of family in the two picture books and in the way they are portrayed.

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They comprise a mom, a dad, and children differently and they share different social class and different ethnic background.

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There are similarities in the presentation of family in both works.

Introduction

The representation of family in (The Tale of Peter Rabbit) is traditional while in (Voices in the Park) it is different as it is a postmodern work that includes different elements. The current paper is critically discussing the family representation in both works through a comparison that studies certain elements such as the social class, ethnic background and the members of the family in each work referring to literature and discussing if there are any similarities in the two works.