"Sweetney Among the Nightingales" by T.S. Eliot

"And this is an alien.  He's kind of like E.T., except a different color.  He's E.T.'s friend.  Yeah, I'm still afraid of E.T."

"Reader Response and Interpretive Perspectives" from Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter, edited by Elizabeth E. Heilman

"This is a picture of me in my bathing suit!...That purple thing is me wearing that kind of thing that women had to wear when they weren't allowed to get their hair wet when they went swimming.  Don't you remember when you told me that?"

"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" by Walter Benjamin

"That's a rainbow of colors so that the people of Earth know that they can choose their favorite color."

"Men in Cloaks and High-heeled Boots, Men Wielding Pink Umbrellas: Witchy Masculinities in the Harry Potter Novels" by Annette Wannamaker

"That's Daddy riding on a rainbow in a boat, and he looks really scared.  And really funny."

"The Hero: Gender" by Margery Hourihan

"This is my backyard, and I drew a picture of a red daisy that turns into a blue daisy.  And when it turns into blue, it turns into a beeeeauuuuutiful blue petal.  It turns into a drop of sunlight that turns into a big help.  Can I have another hamburger bun?"

"An Odor of Verbena" by William Faulkner

"That's what Chinese people used to wear a long time ago.  It's a keychain necklace when people liked each other and completely became friends.  They break apart and turn into necklaces.  I saw it in Mulan 2."

"The Hero" by Margery Hourihan

"This is the Rainbow Life.  It's the most peaceful, beautiful rainbow in the whole wide world.  And you'll even find CRYSTALS!  And there's lots of violets and roses, and it's always a sunny day."

"Illuminations", by Walter Benjamin

"And that's Yoda.  He's from Star Wars.  He's the master of all the Star Wars people.  He also brings lots of karate and lots of oldness because he's a very old, old, ooooold Star War.  Type in 'Star Wars'!"

"Fire and Cloud", from Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright

"This is a picture of the RowdyRuff Boys.  They're the bad guys in The PowerPuff Girls."