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27-404: A cautionary tale is a story where a person ignores a warning and commits a dangerous or forbidden act, which leads to an unpleasant outcome. Cautionary Tale or Cautionary Tales may also refer to: Cautionary tale Cautionary tales are ubiquitous in popular culture ; many urban legends are framed as cautionary tales: from the lover's lane haunted by a hook-handed murderer to

54-598: A player for Boston, Field would speak to "Col. Samuel J. Bosbyshell, the Prairie avenue millionaire." Bosbyshell said, "I like Mr. Kelly better than I do Lowell. When Lowell was here I had him out to the house to a $ 3,500 dinner, and do what I could, I couldn't get him waked up. He didn't seem to want to talk about anything but literature. Now, when I'm out in society I make it a point never to talk shop, and Lowell's peculiarity mortified me. If it hadn't been for [Chicago humorist] Frank Lincoln, with his imitations and funny stories,

81-533: A year, followed by the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri , where his brother Roswell was also attending. Field was not a serious student and spent much of his time at school playing practical jokes. He led raids on the president's wine cellar, painted the president's house school colors, and fired the school's landmark cannons at midnight. Field tried acting , studied law with little success, and also wrote for

108-609: Is a gun. Is the Gun loaded? Really, I do not know. Let us Find out. Put the Gun on the table, and you, Susie, blow down one barrel while you, Charlie, blow down the other. Bang! Yes, it was loaded. Run quick, Jennie, and pick up Susie's head and Charlie's lower Jaw before the Nasty Blood gets over the New carpet. Some films, such as Gremlins , satirized this framework by imposing very arbitrary rules whose violation results in horrendous consequences for

135-879: Is buried at the Church of the Holy Comforter in Kenilworth, Illinois . Slason Thompson's 1901 biography of Field states that he was originally buried in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, but his son-in-law, Senior Warden of the Church of the Holy Comforter, had him reinterred on March 7, 1926. Several of his poems were set to music with commercial success by composers such as Isabel Stewart North , Gertrude Ross , and Ella May Dunning Smith . Many of his works were accompanied by paintings from Maxfield Parrish . His childhood home in St. Louis

162-422: Is justified because she ignored a 'no entry' sign, "when the laws of physics say no, they don't mean maybe", and no other solution would reduce the weight of the ship enough to complete the trip safely. Eugene Field Eugene Field Sr. (September 2, 1850 – November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. He was known as the "poet of childhood". Field

189-521: Is now a museum. The Eugene Field House contains many of Field's mementos, including original manuscripts, books, furniture, personal effects, and some of the toys that inspired his poems. Field has his own star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame . In 2016, Field was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. As a memorial to Field, a statue of the Dream Lady from his poem "Rock-a-by-Lady"

216-494: Is to enforce conformity therefore frequently resort to cautionary tales. The German language anthology, Struwwelpeter , contains tales such as "Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug" (The Dreadful Story of Pauline and the Matches); it is fairly easy to deduce the ending from the title. Social guidance films such as Boys Beware or Reefer Madness are deliberately patterned after traditional cautionary tales, as were

243-551: The Gazette . He became known for his light, humorous articles written in a gossipy style, some of which were reprinted by other newspapers around the country. It was during this time that he wrote the famous poem "Lovers Lane" about a street in St. Joseph, Missouri . From 1876 through 1880, Field lived in St. Louis, first as an editorial writer for the Morning Journal and subsequently for

270-686: The Times-Journal . After a brief stint as managing editor of the Kansas City Times , he worked for two years as editor of the Denver Tribune . In 1883, Field moved to Chicago where he wrote a humorous newspaper column called Sharps and Flats for the Chicago Daily News . His home in Chicago was near the intersection of N. Clarendon and W. Hutchinson in the neighborhood now known as Buena Park . The Sharps and Flats column ran in

297-562: The Calico Cat"). Equally famous is his poem about the death of a child, "Little Boy Blue" . Field also published a number of short stories, including "The Holy Cross" and " Daniel and the Devil ." The volume, The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, was published posthumously with an introduction by Field's brother, Roswell Martin Field in 1896. Field died in Chicago of a heart attack at the age of 45. He

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324-1099: The Midwest are named for him, e.g. Eugene Field Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois ; Wheeling, Illinois ; Rock Island, Illinois ; Elmhurst, Illinois ; Normal, Illinois ; Park Ridge, Illinois ; Maryville, Missouri ; St. Joseph, Missouri ; Hannibal, Missouri ; Columbia, Missouri ; Mexico, Missouri ; Neosho, Missouri ; Poplar Bluff, Missouri ; Springfield, Missouri ; Webb City, Missouri ; Manhattan, Kansas ; Ottawa, Kansas ; Minneapolis, Minnesota ; and formerly in Muncie, Indiana (closed in 1973). Other schools named after Field are located in Littleton, Colorado ; Mitchell, South Dakota ; Sioux Falls, South Dakota ; Tulsa, Oklahoma ; Altus, Oklahoma ; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ; Hugo, Oklahoma ; Beaumont, Texas ; Houston, Texas ; Albuquerque, New Mexico ; Mesa, Arizona ; Pasadena, California ; San Diego, California ; and Silverton, Oregon . One of

351-574: The branches of the Denver Public Library near Field's Denver home is named after him, as is an apartment building in Denver 's Poet's Row. A dormitory in the Orchard Hill residential area at the University of Massachusetts Amherst also bears Field's name. Before his death, Field wrote and published an anonymous work about a 12-year-old boy being seduced by a woman in her 30s. It was titled "Only

378-480: The cod fisheries." Also that year, Chicago's National League baseball club sold future baseball Hall of Famer Mike "King" Kelly to Boston, and coincidentally soon after, famous Boston poet and diplomat James Russell Lowell made a speaking tour of Chicago. "Chicago feels a special interest in Mr. Lowell at this particular time because he is perhaps the foremost representative of the enterprising and opulent community which within

405-406: The community by not taking responsibility. Cautionary tales are sometimes heavily criticized for their ham-fisted approach to ethics . The Cold Equations is a well-known example. In the story, a man has to eject a young woman out of the airlock, otherwise the fuel of his rocket will not suffice to deliver some badly needed serum, without which everyone at a small outpost would perish. Her death

432-744: The danger and directing them towards avoiding the causes, or simply not doing actions that result in such dangers. The genre of the cautionary tale has been satirized by several writers. Hilaire Belloc in his Cautionary Tales for Children presented such moral examples as "Jim, Who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten by a Lion", and "Matilda, Who told lies, and was Burned to Death". Lewis Carroll , in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , says that Alice: ... had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember

459-400: The dinner would have been a stupid affair. But Kelly is another kind of man; he is more versatile than Lowell. I don't believe he mentioned books once during the four hours we sat at dinner last Saturday evening. Nor did he confine his conversation to base-ball topics; he is deeply versed in turf lore, and he talked most entertainingly of the prominent race horses he was acquainted with and of

486-537: The last week has secured the services of one of Chicago's honored sons for the base-ball season of 1887," Field wrote. "The fact that Boston has come to Chicago for the captain of her baseball nine has reinvigorated the bonds of affection between the metropolis of the Bay state [sic] and the metropolis of the mighty west; the truth of this will appear in the mighty welcome which our public will give Mr. Lowell next Tuesday." Four months later, upon Kelly's first return to Chicago as

513-410: The leading jockeys he has met." Field first started publishing poetry in 1879, when his poem "Christmas Treasures" appeared in A Little Book of Western Verse . Over a dozen volumes of poetry followed and he became well known for his light-hearted poems for children, among the most famous of which are " Wynken, Blynken, and Nod " and " The Duel " (which is perhaps better known as "The Gingham Dog and

540-427: The newspaper's morning edition. In it, Field made quips about issues and personalities of the day, especially in the arts and literature. A pet subject was the intellectual greatness of Chicago, especially compared to Boston. In April 1887, Field wrote, "While Chicago is humping herself in the interests of literature, art and the sciences, vain old Boston is frivoling away her precious time in an attempted renaissance of

567-421: The notorious driver's education films ( Red Asphalt , Signal 30 ) of the 1960s, or military films about syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases . The framework of the cautionary tale became a cliché in the slasher films of the 1980s, in which adolescents who had sex , drank alcoholic beverages , or smoked marijuana inevitably ended up as the victims of the serial killer villain . On

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594-709: The other hand, in the adolescent culture of the United States , for more than a hundred years the traditional cautionary tale gave rise to the phenomenon of legend tripping , in which a cautionary tale is turned into the basis of a dare that invites the hearer to test the taboo by breaking it. The cautionary tale has survived to the present day in another form, especially with the rise of modern mass media such as film and television; many public service announcements and public information films frame themselves as cautionary tales regarding both societal issues and common dangers in modern life, pushing conformity by warning viewers of

621-512: The simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked "poison", it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later. In The Complete Tribune Printer , Eugene Field gave cautionary tales an ironic inversion, as in The Gun: This

648-639: The student newspaper. He then set off for a trip through Europe but returned to the United States six months later, penniless. Field then set to work as a journalist for the St. Joseph Gazette in Saint Joseph, Missouri , in 1875. That same year he married Julia Comstock, with whom he had eight children. For the rest of his life he arranged for all the money he earned to be sent to his wife, saying that he had no head for money himself. Field soon rose to city editor of

675-659: The tale of a man who shot a cactus for fun only to die when the plant toppled onto him. Like horror fiction , generally the cautionary tale exhibits an ambivalent attitude towards social taboos. The narrator of a cautionary tale is momentarily excused from the ordinary demands of etiquette that discourages the use of gruesome or disgusting imagery because the tale serves to reinforce some other social taboo. Cautionary tales are also frequently utilized to spread awareness of moral issues. For this reason, they are often told to children to make them conform to rules that either protect them or are for their own safety. Those whose job it

702-774: Was born in St. Louis, Missouri at 634 S. Broadway where today his boyhood home is open to the public as The Eugene Field House and St. Louis Toy Museum. After the death of his mother in 1856, he was raised by an aunt, Mary Field French, in Amherst, Massachusetts . Field's father, attorney Roswell Martin Field , was the lawyer who filed Dred Scott 's case. Field attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. His father died when Eugene turned 19, and he subsequently dropped out of Williams after eight months. He then went to Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois , but dropped out after

729-590: Was erected in 1922 at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. There is also a park and fieldhouse named in his honor in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood. In nearby Oak Park, Illinois , another park is named in his honor. A statue of Wynken, Blynken and Nod adorns Washington Park, near Field's Denver home. Another statue of Wynken, Blynken and Nod sits in the center of the town square (called "the green" by locals) in Wellsboro, Pa. Numerous elementary schools throughout

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