Peanuts
Created | Updated Jun 18, 2003
Peanuts is thought by many, including myself, to be the greatest comic strip in existence. Based around the hopes, dreams, nightmares and moral dilemmas of a bunch of children, it is difficult to think of a difficult issue in life that was never touched by this comic in all it's over fifty years.
Charlie Brown, the main character, was who made it so great. Not to be mean to him, he's just a complete loser. Everything he does fails, which we can all relate to sometimes. He is always playing baseball, but only wins a game once in the whole fifty years or so. He's always after a certain 'little red-haired girl' who is never seen, but he can never get up the courage to talk to her. His kite is always eaten by the 'kite-eating tree'.
Then there's Linus, his friend who always has something encouraging to say, often from the Bible, in spite of the evidence that nothing is ever going to go well for Charlie Brown. Linus sister Lucy is always there whenever meanness and crabby-ness need to be dispensed, and to charge Charlie Brown 5 cents a session for psychiatric counseling. His little sister Sally is always willing to put him down like a little sister should. And his dog Snoopy is always there to do whatever nobody else does, like write novels and articles that are constantly turned down.
It has been said that the real theme of Peanuts is unrequieted love. Sally fancies Linus. Lucy fancies Schroeder. Patty and Marcie fancy Charlie Brown, who fancies the little red-haired girl. But nobodys love is ever returned. It seems more to me that it doesn't have one theme, but covers everything in life that is difficult. In any case, seeing parallels of your problems in Peanuts is certainly a great aid in coping with them.
To see some comics, visit www.peanuts.com
Charlie Brown, the main character, was who made it so great. Not to be mean to him, he's just a complete loser. Everything he does fails, which we can all relate to sometimes. He is always playing baseball, but only wins a game once in the whole fifty years or so. He's always after a certain 'little red-haired girl' who is never seen, but he can never get up the courage to talk to her. His kite is always eaten by the 'kite-eating tree'.
Then there's Linus, his friend who always has something encouraging to say, often from the Bible, in spite of the evidence that nothing is ever going to go well for Charlie Brown. Linus sister Lucy is always there whenever meanness and crabby-ness need to be dispensed, and to charge Charlie Brown 5 cents a session for psychiatric counseling. His little sister Sally is always willing to put him down like a little sister should. And his dog Snoopy is always there to do whatever nobody else does, like write novels and articles that are constantly turned down.
It has been said that the real theme of Peanuts is unrequieted love. Sally fancies Linus. Lucy fancies Schroeder. Patty and Marcie fancy Charlie Brown, who fancies the little red-haired girl. But nobodys love is ever returned. It seems more to me that it doesn't have one theme, but covers everything in life that is difficult. In any case, seeing parallels of your problems in Peanuts is certainly a great aid in coping with them.
To see some comics, visit www.peanuts.com
