Oh, the Places You'll Go! (Poetry)

Title: Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Author: Dr. Seuss

Illustrated by Dr. Seuss

Genre: It is poetry because it have joyous ode to life's adventures.

Summary: It started off with "You're off to great places! You're off and away" You can go any directions with your brains and feet. There are many paths and directions where you can decide to go in life. Sometimes you’ll be at your highest and the lowest but the important thing is that you know you can keep moving on forward.

Theme: It is about starting new chapter in life, it could be about graduation, moving out, or getting married.

Medium: Pen and Ink

Literacy Elements:

Setting: With this book, it doesn't just have one location. So the art is just backdrop because it can happen anywhere and anyplace. It doesn't have one location. It is an adventure for us to embark on. It started with paths in a town, then leaving town to see the wide open world. It also showed a boy in hot-air balloon seeing things on ground from the air. It popped so he was in the lower place. He was in a slump. Eventually he got out of it.

Style: I loved how Dr. Seuss is broad on the characterization because it can be anyone. He wrote it in future tense and second person point of view. Not many authors can do it successfully without making it sounds like self-help book. He have repetition because this is ode poetry kind of a book. He repeat things to make point on "on you will go" every other line on one page to foretell that you'll keep going on.

Characterization: This book doesn't have specific character beside the boy in the adventure. Dr. Seuss is trying to be broad on the character so we readers can relate it to ourselves. We all will go on adventures now and then. We all would rise and fall. We all will have to make decisions. It is kind of flat because it kept going on, there's no personal growth from it. There'll be good and bad decisions that we'll make and all we need to do is keep marching on.

Plot: This book is progressive because it have climax. We all will have positive things that happens to us, we eventually falls in slump. The book concluded in open ending, it's up for us to see for ourselves for what happen to ourselves. It is man vs himself because we all will struggle through something.

Evaluation/Reflection: This book is amazing for anyone who is going through new chapter in their lives. When this book have dark moments, the art'd be dark as well. When this book have bright moments, the colors are brighter. The art interprets beyond literal meaning of this story. I honestly would recommend this book to anyone of any ages from 10 and up. Younger kids would see it as for literal meaning while older kids could see the concept of different paths and different challenges we all can face. This is one of my favorite children's book because this book made me think. Two thumbs up for any books that can make me actually think.