Winnie the Pooh - A.A Milne's Chapter 9

The version of childhood constructed in A.A Milne's classic children's story, Winnie the Pooh, is both complex and contradictory. This can be clearly seen when analyzing Chapter Nine from the book. The story starts with a narrator talking directly to the reader and the dialogue of the characters are very child-like. In the text, the description of the conversations are - "i said to him" "he said to me"...etc which conveys the idea that someone is talking to someone else in a simple but consistant way. The model reader created for this story is a child who is interested in adventure and resolving problems as a leader. The leadership is clearly seen when Pooh has developed an idea to save piglet and put it into an action which gives children an understanding about developing and learning life-long skills to solve problems. Whilst when Pooh is figuring out how to float; the steps he took to work out; the bottle can float on top of the water, so a honey pot can float → If Pooh wants to float on the honey pot then it needs to be big enough → balancing on the huge honey pot so he doesnt capsize. This technique of step by step overcoming the problems help child to experiment through trial and error. Therefore childhood is a time where individuals figure the solution to a difficulty through steps and using those skills to help others.