Everything you need to understand or teach Little Kingdoms by Steven Millhauser.
One of the themes of "The Little Kingdom of J. Franklin Payne" becomes most clear at the end of the story during the first screening of his most precious cartoon. All of the people that have meant anything to him gather together, and it is his art, the world that he creates out of his imagination that brings them together. This is the power of art for Millhauser; it has the ability to...