Because of Winn-Dixie

Winn -Dixie is the title of a children's book of the American Kate DiCamillo. The book for which the author was awarded the Newbery Medal and was shortlisted for the German Youth Literature Prize, was founded in 2004 by Wayne Wang under the title of Winn -Dixie - successfully filmed my shaggy friend.

Action

The ten -year-old India Opal Bulonie that acts as narrator, moves with her father, whom she calls herself the " preacher " in a small town in the American South. The father tried in this way to suppress the memory of Opal's mother left her family when Opal was three. Opal turn himself knows nothing of her mother and can not talk to her father about her feelings too. In their new home, the girl feels even more lonely because they teased from the local children and thereby feels even more lost.

This only changes when Opal while shopping in a store the Winn -Dixie chain a dog meets, she saves from the owner of the store and outputs it as their own. The dog, which she also Winn -Dixie baptizes and becomes her first boyfriend, Opal helps to cope with their situation. She helps out in a Petshop in which the convicted Otis music only plays for the animals and comes in contact with the librarian Miss Franny, who tells her stories of her life and that of the children as "witch" decried Gloria, which she reads. This leaves Opal recognize that the neighborhood kids are unhappy and lonely, and encourages her little friend to approach this. Finally Opal even finds the courage to speak to her father on her mother and can thus recognize the one hand what it has in common with this woman, but also that they must not be determined by the longing for her her life.

Analysis

The book describes in a child-friendly way, the need to question prejudices to tolerate the weaknesses of others and helps the reader to realize that loneliness and unhappiness show up differently, but together can overcome better. Especially mutual honesty is the key to understand the other and to accept.

Opal's dog Winn -Dixie acts as a catalyst that enables Opal, all these outsiders who are unhappy for any and yearn for closeness, to lead together, so this results in a community can develop.

• Literary work
• Children 's and Youth Literature
• Literature ( English )