Thanks

Paul Gadzikowski
English 150 N - Ketcham
November 20, 2003
In-class exercise 3(?): thank-you note

Dear Charles M. Schulz,

Thanks for Peanuts, Sparky.

Thanks for Charlie Brown, who never wins and never gives up trying. Thanks for Snoopy, who never loses if only in his own mind.

Thanks for not caving when readers wrote in offended at the presumption of putting Bible quotations in a comic strip. Thanks for simple art and complex thought.

Thanks for inspiring Vince Guaraldi.

Thanks for "security blanket".

Thanks for rampant unrequited crushes and sibling rivalry. Thanks for five-cent psychiatry and the pun on "dogfight". Thanks for Beethoven, the kite-eating tree, and sincere pumpkin patches.

Thanks for happiness.

Paul