Pollyanna

Pollyanna is the title of a children's book published in 1913 by the U.S. author Eleanor Hodgman Porter. The novel and its sequel Pollyanna grows up to 1915 are still popular classics of American children 's literature.

Content

After her parents died in a traffic accident, the eleven year old orphan Pollyanna Whittier lives in Beldingsville, Vermont, with her wealthy Aunt Polly Harrington, an elderly spinster whose top priority is the performance of duty. Polly makes her fun-loving niece a hard time, but this is adorable carefree and think only good things from her. Pollyanna has a very optimistic philosophy of life that gave her once her father on the way. She makes it a game whose aim is to be found in every life situation something good, about which one can look forward to. With her positive thinking and the " search the Joy " game she sticks to her aunt and the unapproachable and embittered inhabitants of the conservative small town. But one day, disaster strikes Pollyanna is approached and can henceforth no longer move her legs. Unable to walk, she suddenly finds nothing more, what they could look forward to. In this crisis, you are at the inhabitants of the city, they come to Pollyanna and show her how much she has influenced the lives of people positively. Polly Anna realizes that she can be happy to be still alive and have not lost their legs in the accident. At the end of Pollyanna learns to walk into a hospital again and Aunt Polly married her childhood sweetheart, Dr. Chilton.

Publication in German language

Pollyanna was moved several times and under different titles in German language:

  • Pollyanna: Happy Paper for Youth (illustrated by Lotte Oldenburg -Wittig )
  • Pollyanna makes all happy ( reissue, illustrated by Erich hell, Franz Schneider Verlag 1965)
  • Pollyanna: an orphan in America (Ed. edition of Freya Stephan Kühn, illustrated by Milada Krautmann, Arena Verlag 1995, ISBN 3-401-04610-1 )

Continuations

1915 Eleanor H. Porter's approach appeared sequel Pollyanna grows up, grows in German language as Pollyanna: a new Happy Paper for Youth was published.

After Eleanor H. Porter's death, the book series was continued by other authors. In English language appeared:

  • By Harriet Lummis Smith: Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms: The Third Glad Book
  • Pollyanna 's Jewels: The Fourth Glad Book
  • Pollyanna 's Debt of Honor: The Fifth Glad Book
  • Pollyanna 's Western Adventure: The Sixth Glad Book
  • Pollyanna in Hollywood: The Seventh Glad Book
  • Pollyanna 's Castle in Mexico: The Eighth Glad Book
  • Pollyanna 's Door to Happiness: The Ninth Glad Book
  • Pollyanna 's Golden Horseshoe: The Tenth Glad Book
  • Pollyanna and the Secret Mission: The Fourteenth Glad Book
  • Pollyanna 's protegee: The Eleventh Glad Book
  • Pollyanna of Magic Valley: The Thirteenth Glad Book
  • Pollyanna Comes Home
  • Pollyanna Plays the Game

Cultural reception

In English usage, Pollyanna is synonymous with an excessively optimistic and thus appearing naive people.

1978 described the psychologist Margaret Matlin and David Stang, named after the novel and its heroine Pollyanna principle that positive experiences are perceived as more negative.

In the United States, Parker Brothers introduced in 1915 a system modeled on the Roman board game on the market.

Porter's hometown of Littleton (New Hampshire) celebrates the Pollyanna Glad Day annually.

Films

For the first time the novel was filmed in 1920 as a silent film starring Mary Pickford in the title role. The most famous film version dates back to 1960. Produced by Disney in the film all love Pollyanna Hayley Mills is seen in the title role, which was given an honorary Oscar for her portrayal of Polly Anna. Unlike in the book Pollyanna is violated in this adaptation during a fall from a tree.

1973 produced the BBC a six-part TV miniseries, appeared in 1986, the Japanese anime series Wonderful Pollyanna. For American television, the fabric was remade in 1989 in a modernized musical version of Disney under the title Polly.

Followed in 2003 by a British TV movie of the station ITV with Amanda Burton in the role of Aunt Polly and Georgina Terry as Pollyanna, which is largely based on the original novel.

Secondary literature

  • Alice Mills: Pollyanna and the Not So Glad Game. In: Children's Literature 27, 1999, pp. 87-104. .
  • Joe Sutliff Sanders: Spinning Sympathy: Orphan Girl Novels and the Sentimental Tradition. In: Children's Literature Association Quarterly 33:1, 2008, pp. 41-61. .
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