Through Disney we teach our kids the correct morals that as a society we believe are necessary to succeed or live. Is Dorfman agreeing with what Mickey Mouse stands for? Cause I think Dorfman can see positives, if Mickey can show his good qualities to kids through Disney. "Disney thus establishes a moral background which draws the child down the prper ethical and aesthetic path" (111). Is this something Dorman agress with, because if Disney can teach kids to being caring, thoughtful, and kind, then maybe it is not a bad thing to a certain point. Next Dorman says, "we children and grownups will have to get used to reading about our own society, which, to judge from the way it is painted by the writers and panegyrists of our age, is rough, bitter, cruel and hateful" (111). Is this sarcasm? I am confused that if Dorfman is against Disney because of quotes like this one above. I think that showing children life characteristics through animals is not the worst thing but the image that Disney paints that makes everything look happy is probably negative.
I have also tried to grasp this idea of the future is the child, the present is the father, which in turn, transmits the past. "The apparent independence which the father benevolently bestows upon this little territory of his creation, is the very means of assuring his supremacy" (113). Is Dorfman kind of getting at the fact that parents try to live through their children by implanting their ideas and views on the child. The first idea that comes to mind for me is how a father treats his son when it comes to sports. Playing sports my whole life I have come to cross paths with kids who have dads that have an affect over their kids even at the age of 21 years old in sports. I constantly hear some of my teammates make statements, "My dad is going to be pissed that I didn't get a hit" or "My dad is gonna yell at me when I get home for not doing well." This is the only real experience I can articulate of seeing in my own eyes that parents implant ideas into the child. I am trying to relate this to how parents stress juvenile literature or certain ideas growing up.
"Readers find themselves caught between their desire and their reality, and in their attempt to escape to a purer realm, they only travel further back into their own traumas" (113).
"The father must be absent, and without direct jurisdiction, just as the child is without direct obligations" (114).
Looking at my life, my parents stressed certain views on to me but left it to me to make my own ideas about them. My father was never one of those parents I mentioned above, and they never made me do something I didn't want to do. Sometimes they would because they knew I would like it. For example, riding a roller coaster or trying food. But literature and Disney has affected every young persons life to a certain point. "Juvenile literature is a father surrogate" (114).
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