Who jumps the highest?

Who jumps the highest? ( Swedish Hoppa Högst ) is a story by Astrid Lindgren .

action

Ever since Stig and Albin were born, their mothers have been fighting over who can do what best. As the two boys get older, they continue to compete with their mothers. They also do things for it that they would never do without this competition. For example, they eat earthworms so they don't look like cowards in front of each other and their classmates.

One day the competition will be about who can jump the highest of the two. The two can be tempted to jump higher and higher. Then both jump from the roof of the cowshed. However, this jump is so high that the two injure each other and end up in the hospital.

In the hospital the two lie next to each other. When you look at each other you suddenly have to laugh. They wonder what it was good to eat earthworms or jump from the cowshed.

background

In Sweden, the story was first published in 1950 in the short story collection Kajsa Kava (1952, German Sammelaugust and other children ). There was also an audio book about the story in Sweden, which Astrid Lindgren read personally.

filming

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Johanna Hald made the film adaptation of the story in 1989.

reception

DeAgnosti thinks the story shows how parents, too, can do their part to put pressure on children. Albin and Stig's mothers would serve as negative role models for their children. Their bitter competition has also been carried over to the sons. The story shows the great influence of upbringing on children's personal development and on how children later deal with pressure to perform. The story also shows that children who learn that not everything always has to work one hundred percent will build more self-confidence, social and creative skills. Pressure and fear would do the opposite.

Published in Germany in

• Collective August and other children, 1952, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
• Astrid Lindgren tells, 1971, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
• Stories, 1990, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
• The Mirabell Doll and Other Stories, 2006, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg
• Stories and fairy tales, 2007, Verlag Friedrich Oetinger, Hamburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Collective August and other children .
2. ↑ Hoppa hey .
3. ^ Astrid Lindgren's fairy tales 2 .
4. ↑ The great Astrid Lindgren DVD collection: Astrid Lindgren's fairy tales 4. Who jumps the highest? Pelle moves out. DeAgostini. Booklet number 51, page 7