The Velveteen Rabbit: A Story about Love

Abstract

Here is a classic story whose point is that love makes real. A key line is the boy's response to a nanny who has had to clean up his beloved velveteen rabbit after it was left out on the lawn: He isn't a toy. He is REAL! In the end, the velveteen rabbit through a fairy becomes a real rabbit because he has been loved. He revisits the boy who has made him real. About this story my questions are: Will its appeal outlast our postmodern era? And would earlier ages have responded to this story?