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1. In 2-4 sentences, please describe your proposed book project, its central aim, medium of presentation, and its relevance to the course material and potential relevance to your future goals:

2. Please list the literary text(s) to which your project will attend:
3. Please describe the specific detail or idea and/or chapter/scene/section your project will focus on in the text(s) you’ve chosen:
4. Please list the peer-reviewed scholarly articles you have consulted in this project (provide name of author and title, and star the article you plan to engage the most):
5. In regards to your starred article, why are you focusing on this article?
6. Please detail how your project will engage the historical context around your literary text(s):
7. Please explain what your central argument or claim is and how your project plans to convey that claim:

According to June Cummins’ article, The Resisting Monkey: “Curious George,” Slave Captivity Narratives, and the Postcolonial Condition, I realized many things that I didn’t when I was younger about Curious George, I always just recalled the story about a monkey who always got into situations he shouldn’t be in, and always getting into mischief that got him into trouble. What struck me the most is how the story is related to slavery, because George is supposed to be connected to the slaves and the Man in the Yellow Hat is connected to the slaves masters. This story connects to different things if you think about it more closely after reading Cummins views on the entire story through the article. Like my peers found out that also struck me is how George is related to kids and masters to parents. In a way, maybe perhaps she sees things this way because kids are often curious themselves, and obviously George is a curious monkey and parents need to discipline the kids from trouble like a master would. It is also reasonable that she argues that it is related to slavers and their masters too, since slaves act out to escape as much as possible to become free and live how they want much how George acts out to get away from his master.

I do believe that although there is a back story behind these adventures of Curious George,  that there is always going to to be a moral for kids to understand in their own innocent ways too. In this case, I think it teaches them to be disciplined in control or get punished for their actions. Even though, it relates back to slavery I still think its a great comparison and argument that Cummins  teaches us in a whole new light as to what the story is truly about.