1/29/2024 0 Comments Daddy long legs cartoon character![]() It’s a powerful declaration for any female. “ I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish–and that is the belief that moves mountains.” However, in those times this was a new and growing attitude among the females. ![]() In this day and age, a book written in that tone, in a girl power sort of way, isn’t unique. Judy expressed very strong opinions on what it means being a girl and what she could or couldn’t do. It wasn’t simple stubbornness, it was conviction. What struck me about this book is the ‘stubbornness’ of its heroine. Other authors in this genre were Louisa May Alcott and LM Montgomery. Literature under this genre were about girls going to college, pursuing careers and marriage. Daddy Long Legs, when it first came out, belonged to a ‘genre’ called ‘girl’ or ‘college girl’ literature. While the old memories came back to me, re-reading this little novel brought about new insights to the book. When the reply never came, we sit in sadness and frustration, but when it does come how our hearts leaped. The novel reminded me how we used to write letters and how we would wait for a reply. Re-reading Daddy Long Legs reminded me how different letter writing was to email, viber or facebook. A letter wasn’t a singular occurrence, sometimes it was written in several chunks throughout the day. Letter writing required patience in both the writing and the waiting for the reply. We would fill out pages and pages of paper talking about our lives. The internet then wasn’t widely used, so my friend and I would exchange letters through snail mail. I remember making fictional letters as a child.When I eventually got a chance to exchange letters with my best friend who had moved to the US, I was excited. I unfortunately didn’t have anyone to write to. I have loved letter writing for most of my life. The epistolary format immediately called to me as a child, even now as an adult. In refusal to write to a “John Smith,” Judy took it upon herself to call her unknown benefactor Daddy Long Legs. Jerusha “Judy” Abbott was required to write a monthly letter to her unknown benefactor called John Smith about her progress in school. Jean Webster wrote Daddy Long Legs as a collection of letters. Most of all, I loved Daddy Long Legs because I love letters. I like the kind of mischief she came to and loved her kind of stubbornness (I seem to love heroines that were proving themselves equal to any male). ![]() I was first introduced to the book by an animated series I used to watch. Maybe I am.ĭaddy Long Legs was one of those stories that spoke to me as a child. But I recall trying to capture the joy of what it meant to live ‘back then.’ I climbed trees, found crooks and crannies to explore, and made up stories whenever I could. I still was a child born in the modern world. Unlike my childhood fantasies, I grew up in the city even while my neighborhood was more suburban in nature. I had romantic notions in my childhood of living like my childhood heroines and heroes where things were less technological, where we knew our neighbors, families made jam at home, and entertainment was taken from games, outdoor adventures and picnics. Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC).Literary Voyage Around The World Reading Challenge 2018.#WomenReadWomen2019 (A Year Of Women Reading Women) Reading Progress.#ReadIntl2020 (Year Of International Literature) Reading Progress.#DecolonizeBookshelves2022 Reading Progress.#DecolonizeReading2023 Reading Progress.
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