Christopher Robin is a non-fictional character in the famous tale of an English writer, classic of the twentieth century literature by Alan Alexander Milne.
The prototype of the hero was Alan's son - Christopher Robin Milne.
Single child in the family
Christopher Robin Milne was born on October 21, 1920 in the family of Alan and Dorothy Milnov. The couple longed for Rosemary's daughter (as they wanted to call her), and even prepared a whole wardrobe of lace dresses for her to be born.
The birth of a son disappointed the couple, in some ways they even tried to educate him like a girl and dressed up in dresses.
Perhaps the boy received the biggest sign of attention from his mother in the form of a gift for his first birthday. It was a teddy bear, very fond of the child, later embodied in the image of Winnie the Pooh in the story of Christopher's father.
Father spent little time with the boy; he was too busy with his writing activities, mainly working on the book "Winnie the Pooh and all-all-all." And the mother completely dumped the upbringing of her son into a nanny.
Christopher Robin grew up as a shy child, at school the children laughed at him, and the teachers distinguished him from others. "Starry" childhood was not to the boy's liking.
Exposing Myths Myths
Throughout his life, as in childhood, Christopher was haunted by echoes of a book: at the university and at the front he was treated like a child, persuading him to talk about his childhood and comparing him with a character from Winnie the Pooh.
It annoyed and humiliated Christopher Robin.
Having decided to refute the myths about his happy childhood and father, in the 70s Christopher Robin released memoirs in three volumes. In them, he spoke with all rigidity and sadness about who Christopher Robin is, how his father built a career, destroying his childhood.
The memoirs caused a wide resonance in society: numerous critics began to delve deeper into Christopher's fate, comparing him not only with the boy from the book, but also with the cowardly Piglet.
Christopher Robin Milne died in 1996 in a dream. Subsequently, his widow, Claire Milne, organized a charity fund to help children with cerebral palsy, which receives part of the proceeds from the use of the image of the Winnie the Pooh bear.