Good Ol’ Charlie Brown
The first PEANUTS cartoon appeared in 1950. The cartoonist,/Charles M. Schulz,/died in 2000,/but old cartoons continue to be published,/and everybody knows the PEANUTS characters,/especially Snoopy.
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Charlie Brown. Lucy. Linus. Snoopy. They have appeared in magazines and newspapers/for over 70 years. They have hundreds of millions of fans around the world.
People who don’t know the names of their next-door-neighbor’s children/know Charlie Brown,/the little “loser” who never stops believing/that he can win;/Lucy, the little girl/who always gives people advice;/Linus, the small boy/who always has his security blanket with him;/and, the best-known of all,/Snoopy, the beagle/who thinks that he is a fighter pilot/or a great writer. They are the main characters/in the Peanuts cartoons.
Why are these cartoons so popular? Why has Peanuts captured the hearts of people/all over the world?
Let’s look at a few Peanuts cartoons/and see if we can find answers to these questions.
The first PEANUTS cartoon appeared in 1950. The cartoonist,/Charles M. Schulz,/died in 2000,/but old cartoons continue to be published,/and everybody knows the PEANUTS characters,/especially Snoopy.
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Charlie Brown. Lucy. Linus. Snoopy. They have appeared in magazines and newspapers/for over 70 years. They have hundreds of millions of fans around the world.
People who don’t know the names of their next-door-neighbor’s children/know Charlie Brown,/the little “loser” who never stops believing/that he can win;/Lucy, the little girl/who always gives people advice;/Linus, the small boy/who always has his security blanket with him;/and, the best-known of all,/Snoopy, the beagle/who thinks that he is a fighter pilot/or a great writer. They are the main characters/in the Peanuts cartoons.
Why are these cartoons so popular? Why has Peanuts captured the hearts of people/all over the world?
Let’s look at a few Peanuts cartoons/and see if we can find answers to these questions.