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 The menu vocabulary PLACE
A radio 6 1
7 A DINER
13
A soda
lass display case fountain
5
2
The owner
The counter
the waiter
8
3 PEOPLE A stool
The police officer 9
the cop A bundle

4 10
The runaway
The kid 12
11 pistol/gun
A uniform
 The first diners were train wagons converted into cheap restaurants.
Classic 1950’s diners were decorated with tile floors, formica furniture,
soda fountains, neon signs.
They served typical Amercian food.
Nowadays, teenagers meet there after school or for dates. Diners are an
American institution.
 A. has committed an
1.A police officer is offence( something wrong, against
someone who the law)

B. serves food and drinks at a

2.A runaway is resaturant.
someone who
C. protects people.

3. A criminal is
someone who D. who has run away, escaped.

4.A waiter is someone E. makes people obey the

who law

F. catches criminals.
Artist: Norman Rockwell
1.What is this ?

Style: SUPERREALISM
PHOTOREALISM

Technique: OIL ON CANVAS

Size: 91 x 90 cm

Date : The Runaway appeared on the cover of

The Saturday Evening Post,published
September 20, 1958

Gallery: part of the collection of the

Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge,
Massachussets.

Number of paintings in career :

The Runaway was only one of 322 SATURDAY A painting.
EVENING POST covers. An artwork = a work of art.
A masterpiece.
Let’s recap : what – who- date- gallery.

The RUNAWAY is an oil on canvas, painted by

Norman Rockwell. It is a ninety one by ninety
centimetres painting. It appeared on the cover of the
Saturday Evening Post in 1958. Norman Rockwell
made 322 covers for this magazine.
The RUNAWAY is now displayed in the Norman
Rockwell museum, in Stockbridge ,Massachussets,
(which is Rockwell’s hometown.)
 WHERE ?

The scene takes place / is set in

an American diner.
Describe it !

It is typical of an American
diner. There is a counter, stools,
a glass display case for pastry
on the left hand-side and a soda
fountain on the right hand -side.

The radio ?

It is on a shelf behind the counter. It dates the

painting: in the 1950s,TV was very new and
radio was how people stayed up to date with
the news.
 WHO ?
There are only three characters : a waiter, a
police officer ( a cop) and a child. There are no
women.
WHERE ?

They are in the middle of the painting. They

are the focus of attention.

The waiter is standing behind the counter.

the cop and the child are sitting on a stool.

SIZE DISPARITY ?

The policeman is very broad, the

waiter is tall, which makes the WHY?
child even more little.
It shows that the adults are authority figures.
( They are respectable members of the
community).The little boy is a defenceless figure.
Describe the COP

He looks very big/ broad. He’s wearing

his uniform, he’s got his pistol. He is
on duty. he represents law and order.
He is here to protect the child. He is
looking at him in a very comforting
way.

Describe the WAITER

He is very tall. He’s got his

white apron. He is middle-
aged. He’s nearly bald. He is
looking at the boy and
Describe the CHILD
smiling. He looks amused at
the scene. He is smoking a
cigarette. It isn’t allowed to He has got short blond hair; he looks very cute
smoke in public places, but it and innocent. He is wearing a yellow T shirt
was in the 1950s. and jeans. He’s got his jacket on his lap. He is
listening to the cop.
 WHAT’S ON THE MENU ?

Spaghetti and meatballs is the « special today »

2
Homemade pies in the display on the left
hand side
 + TITLE ???

The boy has put his bundle at the foot of the

stool. His clothes are neatly tidied inside his
bundle. He has apparently just left home. The
jeans and T shirt he is wearing are still clean.
Maybe his mum hasn’t realized yet that he has
run away.
The bundle explains the title.
 Imagine why he has run away !

His mother told him off. So he is very angry.

His father beat him because he did somthing

naughty.

He is fed up with school so he is playing truant.

He wants his parents to notice him.

 Imagine what the policeman tells the little runaway.
He offers him something to eat or drink to be friendly . He
doesn’t want to scare him . Express SUGGESTIONS.
- what about a glass of Coke ?
- Would you like some soda ?

- How about a pie / a piece of cake ?

- Would you like some spagheet and meat ball ?

- Why don’t we have a little talk ?

Express advice SHOULD/ SHOUDN’T

- You SHOULD go home, it’s dangerous

out here for a little boy like you !
- You SHOULDN’T stay by yourself.
- You SHOULD let me take you to your
parents, they must be worried.
POINT OF VIEW ?

It is painted from the spectator’s point of view. It enables the spectator to

speculate, imagine the story) and enter the painting.

COMPOSITION ?

The three heads are forming a triangle to

symbolize JUSTICE and MERCY with the
policeman, LAUGHTER with the waiter
and INNOCENCE with the kid.
CONTEXT ?

Post world war II was a period of stability and urbanization.

We have a sense of peace when looking at the painting.

NOSTALGIA
?

The painting tells a universal story tant everyone can relate to :

the urge to runaway at some point in their childhood. Norman
Rockwell allows the spectator to have a time of recollection.
 OPINION ?

THE RUNAWAY is painted with detail and realism. You can

easily mistake it for a photo at first glance. I like the way he
treats the theme of childhood, always represented as cheerful
and innocent.