My Featured Novel

Heidi

I. About the Novel

Heidi  is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: her years of wandering and learning and Heidi : How she used what she learned. 
It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book "for children and those who love children". Heidi is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature.

Heidi is a girl who has been raised by her aunt Detie in Maienfeld, Switzerland after the early deaths of her parents, Tobias and Adelheid. Detie brings 6-year-old Heidi to her paternal grandfather's house, up the mountain from Dorfli. He has been at odds with the villagers and embittered against God for years and lives in seclusion on the alm. This has earned him the nickname Alm-Uncle. He briefly resents Heidi's arrival, but the girl's evident intelligence and cheerful yet unaffected demeanor soon earn his genuine, if reserved, affection. Heidi enthusiastically befriends her new neighbors, young Peter the goatherd, his mother, Bridget, and his blind maternal grandmother, who is "Grannie" to everyone. With each season that passes, the mountaintop inhabitants grow more attached to Heidi.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Heidi." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 31 May 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi>.

II. Versions of the Novel in the Mass Media

A.Movie Versions
Heidi (1937) by motion picture




Heidi (1952)  film in Swiss German and German,  by Franz Schnyder, also starring Ms. Sigmund







B.Animation Versions
Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974)by zuiyo video production

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Heidi." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 31 May 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi>.

III. About the Author: Johanna Spyri

Johanna Louise Spyri was born in Swiss in 1827. She is author of novels and best known for her children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. Born in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.

In 1852, Johanna Heusser married Bernhard Spyri. Bernhard was a lawyer. While living in the city of Zurich began to write about life in the country. Her first story, A Note on Vrony's Grave, which deals with a woman's life of domestic violence, was published in 1880; the following year further stories for both adults and children appeared, among them the novel Heidi, which she wrote in four weeks. Heidi is the story of an orphan girl who lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, and is famous for its vivid portrayal of that landscape.Her husband and her only child, named Bernard, both died in 1884. Alone, she devoted herself to charitable causes and wrote over fifty more stories before her death in 1901. She was interred in the family plot at the Sihlfeld-A Cemetery in Zurich. An icon in Switzerland, Spyri's portrait was placed on a postage stamp in 1951 and on a 20 CHF commemorative coin in 2009.

In April 2010 a professor searching for children's illustrations found a book written in 1830 by a German history teacher, Hermann Adam von Kamp, that Johanna may have used as a basis for Heidi. The 1830 story is titled Adelheide - das Mädchen vom Alpengebirge—translated, "Adelaide, the girl from the Alps". The two stories share many similarities in plot line and imagery. Spyri biographer Regine Schindler said it was entirely possible that Johanna may have been familiar with the story as she grew up in a literate household with many books.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Johanna Spyri." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 03 June 2016.<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Spyri>.

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - character(登場人物)
An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story).

• It is the character of the story.This novel is the character that Heidi, Alm-Opa,Peter, Clara are main. The character is different, but thinks that I changed little by little by having met Heidi.

B. Reaction Point -appeal(～を引き付ける、魅力)
It be attractive to.
Heidi is appeal everyone. For example, Alm-Opa  who shut a heart with stubbornness having come to gradually open the heart to Heidi. I think that this is because Heidi has a character obedient brightly.

C. Reaction Point - setting(設定、背景、場所)

The state of the environment in which a situation exists.

As for this novel, a place is beautiful. For instance,it is an Alpine mountain and is the forest near the hut, and nature overflows.I think that Heidi was able to grow up at ease simply because there was this environment.

D. My General Opinion
I love this novel. I think that it is very good that Heidi learns various things through life here and is brought up. I want to live not discouraged by what after the example of Heidi brightly.
And I thought that it was interesting to express grandfather with "Alm-Opa". "Opa" knew that it was the meaning called the grandfather in German for the first time.