Winnie-the-Pooh Literary Elements

Fiction

Hundred Acre Woods, early twentieth century

The book is narrated in the third person as if the narrator is reading the story to the characters who are remembering experiences of which they are fond.

Happy, friendly, meaningful

Pooh is the protagonist. In the first story, Bees are the antagonists.

There is often conflict between Pooh and the bees because he wants honey and the bees do not want him to get at it.

Christopher Robin throws a party for Pooh before taking him back upstairs to the nursery where he had come from, his head bumping on the stairs. This is the climax of the book because it signifies the end of the stories and the return of Pooh to his inanimate state.

Pooh's love of honey foreshadows the total failure of any plan that involves him not eating honey, for example, his quest to catch a Heffalump goes wrong when he eats the honey they leave in the trap, and ends up falling into the trap himself.

Eeyore is said to be gloomy sometimes but this is an understatement because he is always down in the dumps and even his pictorial depiction has his head down and his back arched in misery.

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The imagery used is both visual and auditory. For example, the bee imagery creates both a visual image of a big cloud of bees and also auditory imagery of them buzzing toward Pooh. We are also able to engage our sense of smell and smell the honey.

Although Piglet is frightened of everything he is actually rather brave and always accompanies Pooh on adventures and in trying to capture scary creatures like Heffalumps.

There is a parallel between Pooh eating the honey that triggers the trap that was set for the Heffalump and Pooh eating the honey that was intended for Eeyore's birthday gift.

The inhabitants of Hundred Acre Wood are used to represent many of the characters who live there

The anthropomorphic bear and friends are given human traits of speaking and acting in a social setting.