Alice s Adventures, The Bfg, And The Invention Of Hugo...

After reading these novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The BFG, and The Invention of Hugo Cabret, I was able to see the varieties of children’s childhoods. Imagination plays a major and main role in children’s literature. Without that imagination, the main characters in the novels mentioned before wouldn’t challenge their morals. In this essay I will argue that these three novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The BFG, and The Invention of Hugo Cabret help the reader understand that growing up with different backgrounds affects how the character handles their obstacles, determining right from wrong, and judgement of impractical and practical situations. In the novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the BFG, each character is lured into a world that could be parallel to reality; this is a fantasy world that puts many challenges to their decisions, however it is the way to prepare them to see life clearly. The main characters, Alice and Sophie are unsatisfied and tired with their living conditions, therefore they let themselves get lost in their fantasy worlds. According to Kohlberg’s stages of Moral Development, level 1 is the Pre-conventional morality: â€Å"At the pre-conventional level (nine-year-olds and younger, some over nine), don’t have a personal code of morality. Instead, our moral code is shaped by the standards of adults and the consequences of following or breaking their rules. Authority is outside the individual and reasoning is based on the