Binary: Rollo at Play, In the Woods.

One clear binary in “Rollo at Play: In the Woods” is right versus wrong. This binary plays out well when Jonas decides that both Rollo and James are at fault. James assumes authority over the wigwam when it is not his, but Rollo should be kind to his guest and let him decide the window design.

“The boys looked guilty and ashamed, but they did not feel really penitent. They were not cordially reconciled. Neither was willing to give up.”

They could not build the window because they could not decide on one together. Since both are wrong, neither received what they wanted. By the end of the story after they behaved well with each other they wanted to build the other person’s window. They realized they could actually build two windows. Since both of them are in the right now they both got what they wanted.

Abbott, Jacob Rollo at Play, or, Safe Amusements, Boston: Thomas H. Webb &Co., 1838. 19 Oct. 2015.