The Lost Thing
On Monday, in my Fantasy class, we had a look at Shaun Tan's picture-story book, The Lost Thing. On the cover, just beneath the title, is written, 'A tale for those who have more important things to pay attention to'. Funnily enough, most of the class had raced through the book just before class, because it's 'just a kids' book'.
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so christop, have u rushed through the book too hehe? what's the tale about?
No, I've probably read it about fifty times, because it's one of my favorite books. And I've written an essay on it before.
However, I rushed through the excerpt of Billy Budd, which I wasn't so interested in, for my next class.
The Lost Thing is about a kid who finds a lost thing at the beach. It's about the city and alienation and stuff. And the pictures are amazing. Get it from the library.
I've read it. Well Chris made me and a kinda rushed through it. Althought it got me thinking coz towards the end it says something like i don't see many lost things anymore, or maybe i don't notice them.
It got me thinking about what i chose not to notice in life.
I like that book. I made me feel sad for the lost thing tho. And I felt sad that he "grew up", and didn't see the lost thing
i love tan's work...
im a picture book snob
yeah i really liked the book and that he tried to find somewhere for the lost thing i thought it was sad though that the only place in the city for it to go was somewhere that almost seemed like a jail for things that were "different" and that he doesn't notice any "things" when he gets older
best picture book i have ever read
I don't think the protagonist actually is a kid.
And, with regards to the ghetto where all the things end up, this seems to be the only location in the book that doesn't seem like a prison to me. When this place is shown, it seems as though the protagonist is looking up out of a grave, into the thing-place.
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