Extra Credit Blog

I would like to compare Sissy to Little Lord Fauntleroy. I would especially like to draw on the relationships between the boys and their mothers. They are both rather "girly" boys. Both Sissy and Ceddie are very different from the typical rough and tumble boys such as Tom Sawyer and Raggid Dick. They are proper and polite and they do not need to manipulated to get what they want. They are very much "Momma's boys" and strive to please. Although Sissy seems to be much more of a "girly boy" he like Ceddie are both able to be boys when needed. Kellogg says, "Willie was all boy or all girl, as the occasion required." (563) This also applies to Cedric especially in the scene where he is playing amongst the other boys.

The boys are very different in the fact that Cedric has money and is a Lord as opposed to Willie who has very little money and has to ultimately go to work to support his mother, and his new sister, Margie. Cedric also is trained and is proper. While Willie is a country boy and is just well mannered. He also has more of the domestic skills as opposed to Cedric who is just more of a Momma's boy and pleaser.

I would also like to comment on how Sissy ends. It leads up to a very predictable ending and then right at the end takes a twist. I totally would have thought that Sissy and Margie would have ended up together. Although that would have been a little weird since he said Margie would be his sister. I like the little twist at the end. It makes the story such a good and keeps the audience captive up to the very end.