Tchou Tchou and "Changing Television": Quiz #2

For this quiz, I will connect Co Hoedeman's Tchou Tchou and the reading "Changing Television: Why the Right Does it Wrong" by Kim Hayes and Peggy Charren. In this reading by Hayes and Charren, they discuss the fact that the content of children's TV should be appropriate for their age, not watered-down adult content. I think that Hoedeman tackles this idea really well in Tchou Tchou. This short film is about a young boy and girl who are constructing a city made out of wooden blocks. Then, a serpentine dragon comes along and destroys the city. After the serpent leaves, the boy and girl reconstruct their city, not even discouraged at the destruction.

This story is certainly supposed to parallel the Creation story. It is about a male and female that are building their own city, their own Eden. It is also about the challenges that they face--the serpent--along the way. This short film does a wonderful job of portraying the Creation story to children. Granted, it does not exactly show the Fall of Man, it paints a picture of what human resilience can look like against secular struggles.

Hoedeman's Tchou Tchou works together with Hayes' and Charren's article because it takes a very serious and pretty heavy story--the Fall--and reframes it in terms that children can understand. The content is appropriate for children, and is portrayed in such a way that, if they don't even know the actual story, they may be able to have an idea of the importance of Creation.