Genre
Children's book
Setting and Context
Written in the context of encouraging young people to be positive in life
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Informative, optimistic, heartening, hopeful
Protagonist and Antagonist
The central character is the narrator.
Major Conflict
The conflict is that the dog-like cartoons instructed by the narrator are unnamed, but they blindly follow instructions.
Climax
The book's climax is the revelation of its encouragement to the youth to view the world from a positive perspective and take steps towards success and positive thinking.
Foreshadowing
The description of different types of people in the world is presaged by the narrator’s instruction to the foot.
Understatement
Acceptance of human nature is understated in the text. The narrator reveals that despite the world having opposing views, people are one, and they should view each other as a diversified benefit to humanity.
Allusions
The story alludes to the significance of reading, thinking positively and appreciating each other.
Imagery
The description of the feet as wet, dry, small, big, high and low depicts the sense of sight to readers.
Paradox
The entire book is paradoxical because the narrator instructs the dog-like cartoon and responds blindly.
Parallelism
There is parallelism between the opposing view in the world and real-life occurrences.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
The foot is personified when it takes instructions.
