Pippi

I will start my blog by saying that I have never read Pippi Longstocking before and I loved it! My mother always called me Pippi whenever I was little and had my hair in the long braids with freckles on my nose but I never really knew who she was talking about. I feel like if I had known, I would have been so complimented!

I have a few things that I noticed while I was reading that I would like to shine light on. The first being that as I talked about earlier in my postings, the animal companion is relevant to this story as well as the other books that we have read. It is interesting that while Pippi did not have any family, Mr. Nilsson and her horse were essentially like her family. I know that we are focusing on the orphaned children in this section of the class but I would like to note that Pippi can be considered in the heroic classification as well. She does not have parents, she lives alone and is left to fend for herself, she is always involved in one scheme or another. She even has the two companions, Annika and Tommy. Although, I will say that they neither one were brave like Hermione or Ron!

I would also like to focus on how the reader views Pippi. It would be interesting to hear a child's point of view on her because while I was reading, I could not help but pitty her. While she was having a blast throughout the entire book, there is something so sad about a child left to her own means. To think of a child in that situation really breaks my heart. That is why I think it would be insightful to learn how a child feels about Pippi.