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Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking
Review by Ucki (Sandra Uckermann, 18 yrs.)
If you don't know the three Pippi Longstocking Classics, you probably missed a little
piece of childhood.
Who would not like to dream about living with Pippi in her wonderful house - together with her monkey Mr. Nilsson and her very own horse - since Pippi is the strongest girl in the world and she has got a suitcase full of gold and a tree with chocolate and soda pop growing on it.
She goes to bed whenever she wants to and does whatever she wants. The opinions of adults
are not important to her. She has a lot of funny ideas and already travelled all over the
world with her dad, the king of Taka-Tuka-Land. To make it short: Pippi doesn't know the
word "boredom".
This also is the opinion of Annika and Thomas, two children living nearby. First of all, they are reeducated by Pippi. Compared to Pippi, the two well-bread children almost look stupid since they permanently are worried about doing something forbidden. In the end they do it anyway having heaps of fun.
Pippi's adentures are so numerous that I simply can't write about all of them. Every reader
has his/her personal favourite adventure. One adventure for example describes when Pippi went
shopping and bought sweets and toys for every child in the town. Another one tells how she
rescued two children from a burning house. Additional adventures tell how she found a ghost,
how she scolded with a shark or how she beat her dad in sailorlifting, ... and the list
goes on.
My favourite story is Pippi taking the Krummulus-Pills against growing up.
All the adventures of Pippi can also be seen in a movie. I like the song from the swedish Pippi Longstocking films. It is quite useful for an international understanding, because the melody is the same in every country, only the text has to be translated into the different languages. It's great fun to find the melody in every country and to sing and hear the song in so many different languages.
My opinion
If you didn't read the Pippi-Longstocking-classics so far, it's not yet too late! Do it now! The age doesn't matter at all!
Pippi reminds me of someone saying: Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
The meaning of the Pippi-books is almost revolutionary and as a maxim it's probably useless
for a good philistini. But it surely helps a person to become more self confident and to do
a few things with a bit more power.
On the outside and on the inside Pippi is a freak. I like this attitude very much in accordance to amazingly many other young and old kids who keep on dreaming about sitting in the chocolate-sodapop-tree with Pippi.
After all I still have to criticize a tiny bit: Dear Astrid Lindgren, even if these books
are classics, calling the inhabitants of Taka-Tuka-Land negroes is a bit old-fashioned. And
if you think of the fact that still a lot of small children read those books, this should
get changed pretty fast into something with less danger to be discriminating.
Here are the titles of the three Pippi Longstocking Classics:
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Further Information
An internet project of Integrierte Gesamtschule Bonn-Beuel
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Stand: 02.03.1998 |
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