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An insightful 3 page essay in which the writer examines what meaning Watty Piper's classic story "The Little Engine that Could" holds for a child and in retrospect, the story's psycho-motivational value for an adult as well. For the most part, the writer is concerned with similarities and dissimilarities between the ways that an adult perceives the story vs. how a child does the same. No Bibliography.
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File: D0_Littleen.doc
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somewhere in my bedroom and a child-like array of toy trains and assembled tracks filled a great deal of my toy-cluttered habitat. I remember quite well how I would stare
at the trains and wonder which of them was like my hero. Of course, I was smart enough to pick the smallest one. I always told myself that even though
it was much meeker looking than the others that it could beat them all if it only tried as hard as the little engine in the story. I realize now
that I never really understood exactly what I was doing or why I was doing it, but whenever I played with those trains, Id push the little train along and
repeat "I think I can" at least a half-dozen times on its behalf. Someday, I would realize that the same psychology not only help to motivate the ultimate path
of the train-- but of my own person as well. To a kid like me, the little engine that could was a hero. I could hear
the excitement in my mothers voice as she read of its resiliently tenacious successes and I would carry that triumph with me into my own playtime. Whenever I was about
to say the contracted word "cant," the little engine would come to mind and Id hear my mothers voice repeating "I think I can... I think I can..." Together with
Watty Piper, the perennial remembrance of my mothers excitement would very often get my through those trying childhood days. Today, I much better realize and more greatly
appreciate the true psycho-motivational value of this story. It clearly tells the reader (or in this case, the listener)-- that even though they might seem small and inferior next
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