Analysis Of 'There's A Monster In My Bed'

Summary

In my creative piece, “There’s A Monster In My Bed. Don’t You See? Don’t You See?” illustrates an animal story in the form of a poem with 26 stanzas and each stanza consisting of 4 lines. The focus of my poem comes from the influence of Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat. Using Potter’s and Seuss’s texts as my inspiration, I established a narrative that combines a mixture of Potter’s and Seuss’s language and style to convey an animal story. Similar to both The Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Cat in the Hat, I used the genre of the animal story to engage with children and childhood imagination. The animal story itself focuses on the animals as the protagonist and tend to be didactic, naturalistic

In the first stanza I established a scene describing Little Jack Bunny’s conflicts with the monsters in his bedroom and the resolution of his mother’s response. The first five stanzas establish the time of day and introduce the main character. This sets up the rest of the narrative because, I continue to list the different reasons why Little Jack Bunny is unable to sleep and the each response his mother says regarding the different types of monsters. The inspiration of each stanza as each scene comes from Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat through the Cat in the Hat’s actions and behaviour. In The Cat in the Hat, Seuss uses each page to describe the scene, instead of a stanza; the number of pages is similar to the number of stanzas in my poem. Nonetheless, the imagery enhances the animal story through the descriptions of the characters and the

In Potter’s story The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Potter humanizes Peter rabbit differentiating him with his siblings by his human name. Nevertheless, aside from including clothing to Little Jack Bunny, I humanized the character by giving him child-like behaviour such as sleeping with a stuffed animal, a llama, when sleeping at night.

Narrative Voice

The narrative voice in my poem is third person omniscient, as the main point of view is Little Jack Bunny, with the addition his mother has dialogue. Both Little Jack Bunny and his mother establish a dialogue that represent two different perspective of the same image. The point of view focuses on the relationship between the mother and the child, as a child’s perspective is more imaginative in contrast to adults, who illustrate reality. Yet, I mainly used Potter’s similar narrative tone in The Tale of Peter Rabbit, as the main focus on the protagonist’s