what is where the wild things are really about
Sendak died today at age 83. In just 10 sentences, Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, illuminated not only the protagonist Max's imagination, but also rage, a reaction to a mother's emotional absence and the overall darker, and neglected, parts of a child's psyche.n Where the Wild Things Are, the reconciliation is represented through the warm food that Max finds from his mother has left for him. And it likely could have been the author's own childhood from which he was pulling.