Image Of Child Heros
The image of a child hero or “trickster” is seen in many cultures.
This kind of role can tell a lot about how a culture acts and reacts to
things. The idea of the child hero in stories written and told before the
birth of Christ probably reflect the peoples beliefs that the child is the
future, and therefore carries some sort of power or gift. For stories that
were written after the birth of Christ, the child could reflect the idea
stated above, or it could also be the peoples belief in an infant savior,
that a child will make everything right again.
Whether the story comes from before Christ or after, the one
uniform aspect about these stories is that they are present in ...
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the Bible, in the Old Testament.
In this story a young man named David proposes to the king of Israel that
he fight and attempt to kill Goliath, the giant that had been plaguing
Israel. The king agrees, however hesitantly, and David goes on to slay the
beast using just a slingshot. While this story is not one that was
made up, it still shows us that the ancient Hebrews believed in the fact
that a child, or in this case teen, has the will and motivation to do
the impossible.
Staying on the eastern side of the world, we will next see examples
of Russian stories. In the former Soviet Union, a lot of the time stories,
books and other types of art were hard to come by. “In a broader sense,
though, recent years have witnessed genuine cultural enrichment, as
Gorbachevs glasnost policy permitted the works of previously forbidden
writers, artists, and cinematographers to become accessible”(Grolier
Multimedia). After the public was able to get at the mass of stories that
had ...
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up. Just as he left the tree
fell over on the witch and all her evil friends, crushing them. Ivashko
lived happily ever after. This shows that in the Russian culture there is a
presence of the child hero, and even shows the image of the trickster in
the way Ivashko tricked the witchs' daughter into showing him how to sit on
a shovel. Ivashko is a hero in this story not only because he killed the
witch, but because he rid the lake and the woods of the evil that kept most
people from going there. Although this isn't one of the newly released
works in Russia, I think that the children's stories, sometimes being all
that the Russian people had to read that wasn't corrupted by the ...
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