William Steig

Doctor De Soto

William Steig— King of Cartoons

Illustrator of the New Yorker

Author of children’s books

Cartoonist

http://www.williamsteig.com

Cover of the New Yorker

Children’s Books

Cartoons

Progressive Plot (I)

Exposition Narrator introduces Doctor De Soto and the

whole setting.

Conflict Doctor De Soto risks to let dangerous fox in.

Rising action The dental procedure

Progressive Plot (II)

Climax The fox’s teeth were stuck with glue.

Denouement The fox was stunned and left in a daze.

End Doctor De Soto outfoxed the fox.

Characters — Round

Doctor De Soto

The fox

Setting and Theme

Setting The special dental hospital

Theme Obvious comparison between the fox and the

mice Campaign between two intelligent mice and a

cunning fox

Style

3rd person of view Short sentence Simple syntactic structure

Illustrations

Artistic style Cartoon style

Color Many different colors Bright color

Composition Within a square With little background Focus on characters

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Recommendable Website

A website that contains many cartoons adapted from storybooks http://www.prairiepublic.org/education/pstv/gui

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