So, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown." You may ask what this has to do with anything yet it truly does. The Peanuts gang may be seen as transcendental, well at least some of them. Which of the characters truly are transcendental or individualists? Why do you think this? What about Charlie Brown? Personally, I do not think he is so transcendental. What do you think? Why?
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The characters that are true transcendentalists would be Linus. Linus was a transcendentalist because when everyone thought he was stupid for going to the pumpkin patch, but he still did it. In a way, it truly portrays Chris McCandless. When all of the people who Chris visited with told him he shouldn't go, Chris believed in himself and went anyways to Alaska. I do not think that Charlie Brown is a transcendentalist because he mostly followed everyone who went trick-or-treating and just went with the flow. Charlie Brown could have went with Linus and helped out a good friend but he didn't. Chris McCandless, a true transcendentalist, would have helped out Linus. Overall, the Peanuts is a good example of transcendentalism
In this movie, the only character that is an individualist is Linus. He is the one that believe in the great pumpkin. All of the others in the peanut gang told him not to believe in something like that. He didn't care though. He was going to stick up for what he believe in and that's why he sat with the pumpkins all night. After his siter, and everyone else said the great pumpkin was fake, he still believe in it. So, he pretty much showed that he believes in what he wants, and no ones opinion will change his! Charlie Brown is not transcendental. He did what everyone told him to do. He just went along with it. Like when the one girl, I wanna say Lacy? Maybe made Charlie Brown sit down so the other girl could draw on his head... Haha. He did what they told him to do even though it was ridiculous and embarassing. This movie is epic.
There are two Peanuts characters that i belive are transcendental. One of them is Linus. Linus went out to the pumpkin patch to see the Great Pumpkin, even though everyone else went trick or treating. Linus is one of those people who will always stick up for what he belives in. I also think Lucy is transcendental. She is always making all the rules and the other kids just listen to whatever she says and does. She's pretty much the leader of the group. Charlie Brown will do pretty much anything to fit in the crowd. He might end up doing something that others wouldn't, but it's not on purpose. He's just a little confused. Therefore I don't belive Charlie Brown is trascendental at all.
The most transcendental of them all is Linus. He doesn't care what people think of him, he dose what he likes. like how every one is making fun of him for sitting in the pumpkin patch looking for the great pumpkin. He doesn't care, because he baleves it. I dont think charlie brown is transcendental at all because he just follows the other and trys to fit in. like how he went to the party, and tricker treating, ensted of being with Linus. and how he let them use him as a model.
In my opinion, the characters are somewhat like transcendentalists, yet they live in a time where they have to be identical and all have the same ideas. Charlie Brown is most indeed a transcendentalist yet he's attempting to go against his nature and go along with the group so that he can be friends with all the other children. I find that there are very few of the characters in "It's the great pumpkin, charlie brown" are not transcendental. Some may be fully transcendental, but from what i observed most of the characters are going against the transcendental nature within them and they are trying to all be identical and similar. I think of them like this because taking charlie as an example. He only followed his friends and did what they did, they liked him for that, but i found that charlie brown was struggling to go against what everybody saw him as and resisted to join the others in the pumpkin patch. In a nutshell i find that very feqw of the characters in the charlie brown movie where actually bold and rave enough to express there transcendentalism freely.
Gabby Eroyan
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The character that is mainly transcendental are Linus Van Pelt. Linus is transcendental by believing in the Great Pumpkin and by carrying a blanket around everywhere he goes. Charlie Brown isn't transcendental. He doesn't do anything that is different from what everyone else does. Lucy is also a transcendentalist. She tries to be the boss of everyone and they just go with what she says so they won't get injured. She also tries to be a psychiatrist, which doesn't work as well as she wants it. Linus can be attached to Chris McCandless.
Chris Daniels
Like everyone else I would say that Linus is a transendentalist. He did what he wanted when no one else wanted to do it. Everyone one else went trick or treating but he went to go see the pumpkin. No body can change what he believes is right. I dont think Charkie Brown is a transendentalist though. HE just follows everyone else. He does what he is told and doesnt follow what he thinks.
i think the charcter that shows transindentalism would be linus. he shows that he follows this because he is indpenent and dosent belive in other thing that people commonly belive in. like he belives in the great pumpkin as where everyone else started to go trick or treat he dose not belive in santa clause though. he can relate to alex becasue he dose what he feels is right and dosent let other peoples opion get in his own views. like when alex dosent ask for help unless he needs it linus dosent either like when he was mailing his letter to the great pupkin. i think charlie brown has some tranindentalism in him. he understands that you somethimes should do what everyone else dose so that way you are not being made fun of or in trouble with any one. that is what i think of linus from the movie its the great pupkin charlie brown.
I think there is only one transcendental person and that would be Linus.He stuck up for what he believed in no matter what anyone told im. Everyone was telling him he was wrong but he stuck by whta he believed and didnt listen to them. Charlie Brown is not transcendental because he goes by what everone else says. The entire group just trick or treats like everyone else. The girl that stays in the patch with him is just following him and not doing what she wants to. She doesnt know whether to trick or treat or stay with him and she doesnt think for herself. This is what I thought about Charlie Brown.
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