Finn Family Moomintroll
Hats off to the adventures of spring – Tove Jansson
English translation 1958
– January 21, 2014
The Characters
Main characters is Moomintroll, Sniff, Snufkin, Snork Maiden, The Hemulens, Muskrat, Hattifatteners, Moominmamma, Moominpappa, Thingumy and Bob, Groke and Hobgoblin. They all live in Moominhouse, except the Hattifatteners and Groke. Snufkin is the wanderer and goes to the South every winter. The characters in the Moomins-books are fictional but kinda the better variation of real people. Moomins are always same- they don’t grown or change. They are lovely, honestly and lenient. Moominmamma is the stereotypically mom: gentle, solicitous, good chef and she never get angry. Moominpappa is like typically old man; wise but scatterbrained. Snork Maiden is so traditional princess as is possible. She want always be little more beautiful and like a lady.
The plot
In the books happens a lot. Moomintroll, Sniff and Snufkin discover the Magician’s Hat and bring it away to the Moominhouse. Moominpappa try to keep it, but it is too big. They decide to use it like a wastebasket. When they trash an egg shell into the hat tem becomes five clouds the children ride and play with. At the next day the clouds are not there and family Moomintroll is so confused. Moomintroll hides inside the hat during a game of hide-and-seek and is temporarily transformed to a tarsier . He didn’t change back, until Moominmamma reconize that the tarsier is Moomintroll. When Moominmamma and Moominpappa understand the magic powers of the Hat, they throw it into the river. But Moomintroll and Snufkin find it and hide it in the cave by the sea.
Muskrat come to the cave and set his denture into the Hat. The denture transformers something, but nobody know what.
The Moomin Family find a boat and name it ”Adventure.” On that boat they travel to the Island of the Hattifatteners. The Hattifatteners bully The Hemulens and by way of vengeance The Hemulens steals The Hattifatteners barometer. The childrens live a moment into Sniff’s cave. When the Moomin Family come back to the Moominhouse it is transformed into a jungle.
The setting is Moominvalley, a fictional place, where the Moomins live. The story involved three times of year: spring, summer and autumn.
Narration
The narrator of the story is know-it-all narrator.
Theme and message
The main theme of this novel was tolerance, like almost all Moomins-books. Tove Jansson wants to creative a world, where everything is good and beautiful. She makes the Moomins dear and pedagocic, them teach to the children sympathetic and kindness.
My opinion
I liked most part of the book when Moomins rides with clouds, because it was my favorite episode of Moomin tv-programme.
Reading an Englis was difficult because my vocabulary was sometimes too concise so that I understood all.