Monday, 31 October 2011
In today's strip, a two-year old's fear of what she can't help but see as monsters is played for laughs.
(Strip Number 329, Original Publication Date, 30 October 1982)
Panel 1: We start things off with Lizzie telling Elly that she wanna go out, wanna go; since Elly isn't nearly ready for the trick-or-treaters yet, she tells Lizzie to stay.
Panel 2: Given that waiting to do something she wants is not something that a child like her can do, she continues hollering that she wanna go out, wanna go, wanna when the door bell rings.
Panel 3: She opens the door to find a boy in a goblin mask and a girl in a witch costume looming over her and yelling "Trick-or-treat."
Panel 4: Given that she thinks that they really look like that and, since they're monstrously ugly, that they want to do bad things to her, she yells "WANNA STAY!!! WANNA STAY!!!:
Summary: This is what bothers me the most about trying to force children that tiny to participate in Halloween; it seems to me that sending a child too young to know what a disguise is and who's kinda afraid of everything out in an environment filled with scary monsters is sort of asking for trouble.
(Strip Number 329, Original Publication Date, 30 October 1982)
Panel 1: We start things off with Lizzie telling Elly that she wanna go out, wanna go; since Elly isn't nearly ready for the trick-or-treaters yet, she tells Lizzie to stay.
Panel 2: Given that waiting to do something she wants is not something that a child like her can do, she continues hollering that she wanna go out, wanna go, wanna when the door bell rings.
Panel 3: She opens the door to find a boy in a goblin mask and a girl in a witch costume looming over her and yelling "Trick-or-treat."
Panel 4: Given that she thinks that they really look like that and, since they're monstrously ugly, that they want to do bad things to her, she yells "WANNA STAY!!! WANNA STAY!!!:
Summary: This is what bothers me the most about trying to force children that tiny to participate in Halloween; it seems to me that sending a child too young to know what a disguise is and who's kinda afraid of everything out in an environment filled with scary monsters is sort of asking for trouble.