Max becomes the "most wild thing of all." He takes a private boat to where the wild things are, and, despite their terrible roars and ghoulish features, manages to become their ruler through a magic trick. But his rage is apparent, and soon his room morphs into a strange forest. In just 10 sentences, Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are," illuminated not only the protagonist Max's imagination, but also rage, a reaction to a mother's emotional absence and the overall darker, and neglected, parts of a child's psyche.Ĭlearly, Max, a young and unruly boy who is punished by his mother and sent to his room without dinner, depends on his mom. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive?" Maurice Sendak told Leonard Marcus, a children's book historian, in a 2002 interview.
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