The+Bald-Headed+Boy


 * Frank Leslie's Christmas**
 * The Bald-Headed Boy. . . . . 9 **
 * This book tells the story of a young boy who was born with no hair on his head. In India, hair is extremely important culturally, as the story points out. But as his life goes on, he realizes that he was destined for greatness, even though he is bald. This is an example how some of the stories within this Christmas book not only tell a fictional story, but also attempts so familiarize the reader with the country or culture it is talking about.Like many of the stories in this book, the beginning of the passage has an illuminated letter. In this case, the letter B is displayed with a scene that illustrates a passage of the book. But the reader does not know this until they read the following page. Therefore the reader must then piece together what they see first, to what they read later in the passage. **




 * As mentioned earlier, there are several pictures that are merely in this book for decorations. The page that faces the beginning of this story is a picture of a poodle with a basket of kittens within its mouth. This picture does not represent a scene from the //Bald-Headed Boy//, but it is simple placed their in order to entertain the reader. Underneath the picture are two words in order to give the picture some type of context. It simple says "Friendship's Offering". These pictures may be a type of entertainment or simple there to cause a smile in order to move the viewer through the book. **

** The images within this story are all wood engravings. Maybe the artist ( or the author) decided to use wood engravings in order to create a more exotic or primitive feel to the storyline. The images have a small quote from the text, which would direct the reader to the specific passage that the image is referring to. The passage says "Suddenly, his royal person was pushed from his seat." There is more detail within the text that the artists used in order to create the picture, such as where this scene took place, and what furnishings were being portrayed. But the caption does not include these details. It only includes the action taking place .**

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