Mickey Mouse and the Boy Thursday
Mickey Mouse and the Boy Thursday is a book by Walt Disney and Company, Published by Whitman Publishing Co., at 1948. The book featuring Mickey Mouse and tells the story about Mickey Mouse encounter with an African Boy.
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Plot
Mickey finds an African boy in the delivered box of bananas. The boy doesn’t understand Mickey’s lifestyle and gets into trouble by his careless behavior. He breaks stuff like radio, because all he knows is how to hunt, eat or worship. When he meets Goofy he drops down to the floor and bows, but then run back to take his spear. The boy seems “dumb”, with not enough knowledge to understand basic behaviors.
Mickey says: “Poor little guy! He just makes mistakes. He doesn’t know any better. I’ll just have to be patient and teach him the right way to do things”
There is also another quote which seems questionable…
“Let me see. A genuine African native,” Mickey murmured. “Perhaps I should start showing him off.”
When Thursday encountered with Minnie, Minnie was very terrified and asked Mickey to call the police. But instead of calling the police Mickey said "He is not dangerous, he's just primitive.". "He's brother sent him from Africa to be educated", Mickey explained to Minnie. "But you don't want to keep a savage your home"
"What a queer little fellow he was. Mickey could hardly keep from laughing" The boy physical appearance described "arms and legs were short, his hands and bare feet were enormous. His stomach, big and round as butterball, skirted by a fringe of grass, and he wore two wide, gold bracelets, earrings, and a necklace of white bones."
The Controversy
In 1948 Disney published a kids book called “Mickey Mouse and the boy Thursday”. Mickey finds an African boy in the delivered box of bananas. The boy doesn’t understand Mickey’s lifestyle and gets into trouble by his careless behaviour. He breaks stuff like radio, because all he knows is how to hunt, eat or worship. When he meets Goofy he drops down to the floor and bows, but then run back to take his spear. The boy seems “dumb”, with not enough knowledge to understand basic behaviours.
Mickey says: “Poor little guy! He just makes mistakes. He doesn’t know any better. I’ll just have to be patient and teach him the right way to do things”
There is also another quote which seems questionable…
“Let me see. A genuine African native,” Mickey murmured. “Perhaps I should start showing him off.” Indeed the 40s were a different time to what we have now, however this book was the suppose to be showing tolerance.. I’m not sure if that’s the outcome!
External Link
Read the book online here
