Classic innocent stories are being corrupted.... by people (ADULTS) today with modern ideas. Classic characters like Noddy and Big Ears are being vilified because when they were written, nobody thought twice about guys being friends and living in the same house and most kids today wouldn’t think twice about it either!
Enid Blyton has been hit with many modern day versions of her stories, names changed, characters living different lives all because it not deemed fit for ‘modern society’. But what people forget is the books being written within the context of her time. She wrote about the childhood she knew, which was middle-class, and created her fiction with characters that belonged to the era in which she lived.
In The Adventurous Four, she wrote about a 15-year-old boy called Andy who worked with his father full-time, as a fisherman. But it has been changed Andy should, in fact, be in full-time education, so the story now ensures that he is not guilty of reprehensible truancy. Now he is at his school desk all day and only helps Dad at weekends.
Why???? We don’t go after Dickens to take out all references to child labor. We'll have Oliver Twist pursuing a full-time education until the age of 16, before leaving to take up a 'work experience' post with Mr. Sowerberry the undertaker.
The Famous Five are famously intrepid explorers. One adventure takes them into the dark recesses of a series of caves. Surely they shouldn't be permitted to take such risks? What of the danger of falling rocks, hypothermia?
Surely the errant Five should be safely at home, experiencing their adventures vicariously through their computer screens?
Well, of course they shouldn't. Children, by and large, want to be thrilled and excited by stories that move ineluctably towards a happy ending. Enid Blyton’s talent is to engross the most recalcitrant or tentative young reader in tales that do just that: in Blyton, the good triumph and the bad are punished. As Barbara Stoney, Enid Blyton's official biographer said ‘It is all palpable madness. The fact is that no child has been rendered racist or sexist by reading Enid Blyton’
So I don’t understand why people get their knickers in a knot when the stories keeps the kids engrossed in adventures and maybe teach them about different aspects of people’s lives in period before they were born.
Most of my research for this subject and the previous page on Disney came from popular opinion within my life, through family and friends and through social media. One of my greatest resources was from the people who read them. I found out how people are feeling through, blogs, facebook and even a bit of twitter. There are sooooo many YouTube videos about the evilness of Disney... I actually got a bit scared of mind control influences that big companies may have been using on me. But I have also heard from my elders, my Grandparents and parents their despair at the classic tales they read as they were growing up, being vilified at not being politically correct enough for today’s generation. But if our parents learned lessons and morals from them the same lessons and morals are still in the stories.... without having to change them.
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| Noddy from Toyland.... Is this guy Corrupting your Kids???? http://blog.inkyfool.com/2011/07/poop-noddy.html |
References:Stoney, Barbara. Mail online. 2006. Last viewed on 1st November 2011. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-392400/Row-faster-George-The-PC-meddlers-chasing-us.html
Noddy from toyland, 2011. Last viewed on 1st November 2011.
http://blog.inkyfool.com/2011/07/poop-noddy.html
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