Christopher Robin Milne
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Christopher Robin Milne died on April 20, 1996. He was the original Christopher Robin who owned the stuffed bear called Winnie-the-Pooh and his father A. A. Milne wrote some of the world's most famous children's books about his son and his toy animals. The obituaries for Christopher Milne stressed the fact that the "attention this brought him from Pooh fans didn't always sit well with the real Christopher Robin" ("Transition" 87). But in his autobiography, The Enchanted Places, which deals mainly with his childhood, Milne did not express any dislike for the books. The main problem that he had with his fame was that it was never really his own fame. The question that bothered him the most about the books was whether they had really been written for him, as his father sometimes claimed, or whether he was just the source of an idea that his father could use for his own purposes. In the book Milne tries to understand why it always seemed to him that his father had only pretended to write the books for him. The book Milne wrote is not bitter toward his father. Instead it is very affectionate and proud. But if it is unusual enough to write an autobiography if a person is just the child of a famous man -- it is even more unusual to write an autobiography if a person is famous as a character in a book. Milne uses this book to come to terms with this very strange kind of fame and to explain to the world how he dealt with it and what it all meant to him.
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of a wonderful childhood. For much of the book Milne portrays the life the Milne family led at Cotchford Farm. He depicts the original places pictured in the books and remembers the development of the characters. He was raised in the exclusive care of his nanny and generally saw his parents only after meals for the first five years of his life. He recognizes that this seems strange to many people but he and his parents looked at it as a normal way of living. After he was six he and his mother spent more time togther and it was not until he was about eleven, and had already gone away to boarding school, that he and his father started to become close.
This was a world that was already disappearing in the years that the Milne family lived at Cotchford Farm between World War I and World War II. Milne tells how his mother, who was from a wealthy family, was raised as a lady which meant that she knew how to do almost nothing practical. Whether it was sweeping, cleaning, doing laundry, making beds, cooking, or washing dishes Dorothy Milne "had never been taught any of these things" (110). And she never had a chance to learn any of them afterward since uniformed cooks and maids did all the work of the house and Milne's mother onl
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