Art Fundamentals
The Meal A Mile Long
By Frieda Hughes
1. Fictional picture book.
2. The Meal A Mile Long, written and illustrated by Frieda Hughes, Simon & Schuster Limited, Great Britain, 1989.
3. Walter
The King
Guards
Rats
4. In the text, Walter who was once a sailor lands in a strange and foreign land. When Walter gets off of the ship he was on, he sees beautiful flowers and decides to pick one. However, the garden belonged to a cruel King who sentenced Walter to death for picking flowers from his garden. Walter meets rats that are in the dungeon he is thrown into and the tell him to ask for a meal a mile long as his last wish. Walter receives his last wish and it saves his life.
5. I think that the author did a good job of conveying that there are consequences to our actions. The main issue that the book explored is the uncomfortable topic of death and the main character Walter being sentenced to death. My main concern about the book is that the author chose a severe consequence to the action of Walter taking (stealing) a flower from the Kings’ garden.
6. What was most memorable in the book for me is when Walter was trying to escape from the cell that he was thrown into. It made me think about some of the actions I have made in the past and how I could have had much more severe consequences and that I learned my lesson. I can relate it to my own experiences of when I was in Kindergarten and got sent to time-out for ruining someone else’s painting, because I thought that it was better than mine. The pleasure that I found in the book is that it’s fun with Walter talking to the rats, and him getting away in a funny and unexpected way.
7. “Just as the rat had said, a guard came to grant Walter his last wish. ‘You can ask for anything you want, except your life,’ said the guard. Walter grinned. ‘I’ll have a meal a mile long.’ “(pg. 13) The reason that I found this passage particularly memorable is because it’s when Walter was
By Frieda Hughes
1. Fictional picture book.
2. The Meal A Mile Long, written and illustrated by Frieda Hughes, Simon & Schuster Limited, Great Britain, 1989.
3. Walter
The King
Guards
Rats
4. In the text, Walter who was once a sailor lands in a strange and foreign land. When Walter gets off of the ship he was on, he sees beautiful flowers and decides to pick one. However, the garden belonged to a cruel King who sentenced Walter to death for picking flowers from his garden. Walter meets rats that are in the dungeon he is thrown into and the tell him to ask for a meal a mile long as his last wish. Walter receives his last wish and it saves his life.
5. I think that the author did a good job of conveying that there are consequences to our actions. The main issue that the book explored is the uncomfortable topic of death and the main character Walter being sentenced to death. My main concern about the book is that the author chose a severe consequence to the action of Walter taking (stealing) a flower from the Kings’ garden.
6. What was most memorable in the book for me is when Walter was trying to escape from the cell that he was thrown into. It made me think about some of the actions I have made in the past and how I could have had much more severe consequences and that I learned my lesson. I can relate it to my own experiences of when I was in Kindergarten and got sent to time-out for ruining someone else’s painting, because I thought that it was better than mine. The pleasure that I found in the book is that it’s fun with Walter talking to the rats, and him getting away in a funny and unexpected way.
7. “Just as the rat had said, a guard came to grant Walter his last wish. ‘You can ask for anything you want, except your life,’ said the guard. Walter grinned. ‘I’ll have a meal a mile long.’ “(pg. 13) The reason that I found this passage particularly memorable is because it’s when Walter was