Goodnight Goon: a Petrifying Parody by Michael Rex
Schema: text-to-text connections with Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Parody: copying someone’s style in a humorous way, making a spoof of something
Goodnight Goon is a parody of Goodnight Moon.
Compare and Contrast:
Similarities: same story pattern, same room design, same color of P.J.’s, both have snacks in their rooms, both have rocking chairs, both have red headboards, both have fireplaces, both tell everything goodnight, both rhyme.
Differences: In Moon the voice is peaceful and quiet, the objects are plain, normal sorts of things like the furniture, fireplace, the mother is knitting, the main character is a little sweet bunny
in Goon the voice is loud with lots of action, the headboard has a devil on it, the mother figure is sticking pins in a voo-doo doll, the fireplace has bars on it to house a monster octopus, the main character is a werewolf
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