tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218460251150852982.post2604917957378272754..comments2024-01-11T02:33:42.530+11:00Comments on The Blytonly Obvious: The question of appeasement in the nurseryFenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10589433358689469513noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218460251150852982.post-78085961952697477622011-04-19T12:29:04.363+10:002011-04-19T12:29:04.363+10:00I'll have to read the adventurous four. Enid b...I'll have to read the adventurous four. Enid being Enid, though, she would never have dealt with the yucky stuff associated with war. Gullible nazis can be dealt with by Enid's Mary-Sues; but Germans bombing London?<br /><br />Massive casualties, air-raids, food rationing, evacuation of London ... these were not spoken of (or at least, she didn't deal with how people had to live with these things) as she probably considered them too low-brow. Proper children had parents with country houses and gardening staff who produced enough fresh food to not have to worry about rationing. they also had enough money to buy luxuries like sugar on the black market.Fenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589433358689469513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218460251150852982.post-79858860502923059742011-04-19T10:50:43.892+10:002011-04-19T10:50:43.892+10:00It's absolutely fascinating, actually. I rath...It's absolutely fascinating, actually. I rather like the idea of Enid trying to make sense of things through her stories. Of course, Enid being Enid, they couldn't <i>just</i> be stories - they had to "educate" in some way.<br /><br />Enid always handled the war in a fascinating way - as though she would only deal with it via long-handled tongs if she absolutely <i>had</i> to. I remember one curious mention of rationing in a <i>Famous Five</i> book (which confused the seven-year-old who had yet to learn about the World Wars). Of course, there's <i>The Adventurous Four</i>, too, which is obviously about WWII and Nazis, although it's never specifically mentioned. It's fascinating to think about why she did things that way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218460251150852982.post-1646134134929065192011-04-18T02:06:29.231+10:002011-04-18T02:06:29.231+10:00Hee! I like it too. I will never think about Ameli...Hee! I like it too. I will never think about Amelia Jane - or WWII - the same way again...<br /><br />I must point out though, that the war definitely intrudes in 'The Adventurous Four'. I mean, the villains are evil (and massively gullible) Nazis. The book even mentions the "crooked cross, the sign of the enemy".Sycoraxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05325330920056350110noreply@blogger.com