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How are Peter Rabbit and Winnie-the-Pooh comparable

Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit and A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh are two unique children’s stories with their own distinct styles of prose. Yet, at the same time, these two memorable children’s tales have some underlying similarities. This essay will attempt to demonstrate what these similarities are and why they are significant.

Mostly obviously both stories deal with the telling of a story from the point of view of an animal. Hence, both the authors use the literary technique of personification to give human like characteristics to their main characters. Another similarity between Peter Rabbit and Winnie the Pooh, the protagonists, is that both animals are able to interact with both humans and animals.
Another similarity is that both stories provide morals. While Potter appears to be bringing out the moral of her story quite clearly, Milne does the same subtly. It appears that Potter has uses fewer words to communicate the moral of the story whereas Milne bui...

Posted by: Alexander Bartfield

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