Personification in a Narrative Adventure

After reading, focus on passages and illustrations that describe the broom's behavior. For example: 

• In the morning she led the broom outside and found that it was a very good student. She needed to show it how to do something only once. Soon the broom could chop wood and fetch water, feed the chickens and bring the cow in from the pasture. It could even pick out simple tunes on the piano.

Or this:

• As days went by, the broom seemed as innocent and hardworking as ever. Though it had learned to do many things, sweeping brought it special pleasure. It was, after all, a broom.

 

Van Allsburg chose to give life to an ordinary, everyday object with personality and intelligence.  He described those attributes in his writing.

 

Think about an everyday object that you use often. Now, imagine if you could bring that object to life, allowing it to move, think and work on it's own.—just like Minna's broom. Write an adventurous narrative about that object. Be careful to describe the thing carefully, as though it had its own personality.