Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are

| |‘Where the Wild Things Are’ is a 1963 children's picture book by American writer and |
| |illustrator Maurice Sendak. |
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| |The book tells the story of Max, who one evening plays around his home, "making |
|Synopsis |mischief" in a wolf costume. As punishment, his mother sends him to bed without supper. |
| |In his room, a mysterious, wild forest and sea grows out of his imagination, and Max |
| |sails to the land of the Wild Things. The Wild Things are fearsome-looking monsters, but|
| |Max conquers them "by staring into their yellow eyes without blinking once", and he is |
| |made "the King of all Wild Things", dancing with the monsters in a "wild rumpus". He |
| |soon finds himself lonely and homesick, and he returns home to his bedroom, where he |
| |finds his supper waiting for him, still hot. |
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| |This text relates to belonging as Max the protagonist feels that he does not belong to |
| |his world as he is misunderstood through his mischief behavior, which to him seems |
| |normal, as he is an infant. When Max enters the world of the wild things he feels like |
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