Winnie the Pooh
Author: A. A. Milne= Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956)
Illustrator: E.H. Shepard =Ernest Howard Shepard (1879 – 1976)
Charaters:
Winnie-the-Pooh:
Winnie-the-Pooh, or Pooh for short, is an anthropomorphic toy bear and the main character. Despite being naïve and slow-witted, he is a friendly, thoughtful and sometimes insightful character who is always willing to help his friends and try his best. His good intentions sometimes make things worse and other times solve a problem. What drives Pooh the most is his love for honey, which sometimes leads to trouble. His catchphrases are "Oh, Bother!" and "Think, think, think".
Christopher Robin:
The sole main human character in the series. He has a pleasant, cheerful and compassionate personality and is someone that Pooh and the others look up to. Despite being a child, he is much wiser and more mature than many of the other characters. Pooh considers both Christopher Robin and Piglet to be his best friends.
Piglet:
Pooh's best friend. He is a kind, gentle and small animal who is ordinarily quite shy, but with Pooh by his side, he often overcomes his fears. Deep down, he is very brave and often faces danger to help his friends. His catchphrase is "Oh, D-D-Dear!". Piglet lives in a beech tree that he likes to keep neat and tidy, can sing very well and he likes to eat "haycorns".
Eeyore:
Pooh's ever-glum, slow-talking, sarcastic and pessimistic donkey friend who has trouble keeping his tail attached to his bottom. Eeyore has a house made of sticks, which falls apart many times and has to be rebuilt. Eeyore is more sensible than some of the other animals and is often reluctant to go along with their actions, but usually does not bother trying to oppose anyone because he believes it to be futile to try. His catchphrase is "Thanks for noticing" as indicated to himself.
Kanga:
Kanga is a female kangaroo and the doting mother of Roo. The two live in a house near the Sandy Pit in the northwestern part of the forest. Kanga is the only female character to appear in the books. She was based on a stuffed toy that belonged to Christopher Robin Milne.
Kanga is kind-hearted, calm, patient and docile. She likes to keep things clean and organized, and offers motherly advice and food to anyone who asks her. She is protective over Roo, almost obsessively, and treats him with kind words and gentle discipline. She also has a sense of humor, as revealed in her response to the trick on her of switching Piglet with Roo. Kanga also has a love for carrots.
Roo:
Kanga's cheerful, playful and energetic joey, who moved to the Hundred Acre Wood with her. His best friend is Tigger, whom he looks up to like an older brother. Roo is the youngest of the main characters.
(the smallest one in this picture)
Rabbit:
Rabbit is friendly, but irritable. He fancies himself the smartest animal in the Hundred Acre Wood. He insists on doing things his way and is obsessed with rules, planning and order. He often loses his temper to others and bosses them around, but deep down, he cares a lot about his friends. In the Walt Disney films, he takes pride in his garden and hates when anyone (mainly Tigger) messes it up. Rabbit is one of the characters not based on a toy once owned by Christopher Robin Milne.
Tigger:
Pooh's exuberant, less-than-responsible and trouble-making tiger friend. He loves to bounce, especially bouncing on others. He is full of energy, likes to have fun and is so overconfident that he thinks that any task is "what tiggers do best". Tigger commonly mispronounces words, like 'ridickerus' (ridiculous) or 'vill-i-an' (villain) and often does more harm than good. However, Tigger is also shown to be tough, fearless, optimistic and resourceful. He is Roo's best friend. His main catchphrase is "Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo!" when he is happy.
Owl:
Owl is the stuffy and talkative eldest main character who acts as a mentor and teacher to the others. He was not based on a stuffed toy, so in the illustrations, he looks more like a live animal. This is supported by Rabbit's comment, "You and I have brains. The others have fluff."
In the books, Owl is often cross and easily annoyed. He sometimes wears reading glasses and he uses his talons for hands, not his wings like in the Disney version. He lives in a tree known as The Chestnuts, described as an "old world residence of great charm". That house is blown down by a storm in the eighth chapter of The House at Pooh Corner. Eeyore eventually discovers what he believes is the perfect new house for Owl, apparently without noticing that it is actually Piglet house. Nonetheless, Piglet offers the house to Owl. Owl calls his new home "The Wolery".
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Onomatopoeia: An onomatopoeia or onomatopœia (common term is sound word) is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Onomatopœia (as an uncountable noun) refers to the property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopœias include animal noises, such as "oink" or "meow" or "roar" or "chirp".
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