The themes of children’s literature are as follows:
1. The theme of love (Part 1): maternal love
What this theme embodies is the adult The look upon children - a look overflowing with love. The theme of early folk fairy tales is almost always maternal love. Their common characteristics are:
1. Most of them have no educational purpose when creating, and are highly random and improvisational.
2. The story is far from reality, and all it involves are topics that mothers are interested in.
3. The plot is tortuous but not too exciting, and it usually ends with a "happy ending".
Four. The structure adopts a repetitive and convoluted approach, and is generally not large in length.
5. The narrative language reflects the kindness and tranquility of motherhood, and also contains moderate humor and exaggeration. This is the playful mentality inspired by the love from the heart, which is in line with children's desire for games.
2. The theme of love (Part 2): Fatherly love
"Detour when encountering difficulties" is a characteristic of maternal love works. No matter what difficulties the protagonist encounters, the work chooses not to let them face the problem head-on, but arranges for them to cleverly avoid it and live a happy life easily.
However, literature always involves problems in life, and children always face the cruelty of reality. This solution is illusory and arbitrary. The way "fatherly love" works deal with life's problems is realistic and profound. It has taken a big step in the direction of adult literature, and its aesthetic pursuit has begun to shift toward "revealing the unspeakable mysteries of life."
3. The Naughty Child Motif
The "Naughty Child Motif" starting from "the child's own perspective" makes up for the shortcomings of the "Love Motif" and enables children not only to Gaining care and guidance through aesthetics, it can also maintain or even activate children's inner freedom-loving nature.