Little Coloured Bricks

Looking back into history is important, not only for every nation but for the world as a whole. Looking back to where we came from is a good way to not make the same mistakes all over again. Literature is part of history, of what is happening around the globe in a certain time period where fictional characters revolved around in.

Lego creator and artist Jamie Spencer has helped us remember literary greats through Lego. Spencer’s Lego Mark Twain is one example. The American author of great novels such as “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” has a Lego minifigure. The popular writer whose real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens has a rather keen wit and this earned him the admiration of his critics and peers.

Another Lego creation is the 6 feet tall Mark Twain created for The Mark Twain House & Museum located in Hartford and it is made purely out of Lego bricks. William Shakespeare does not have a Lego minifig just yet but a certain Matthew Williams built Shakespeare’s “Richard III” scenes out of Lego. The builder did the project in the year 2007 and was featured in the Washington Post because of it.

There are no photos of the creation posted online and one could only see it through Washington Posts archives. This work is interesting because Mr. Williams spent much time and effort to build the project. If Shakespeare were alive today, he would be glad that someone did this for one of his literary pieces.

Another one of Jamie Spencer’s creations is the Lego version of the American novelist and journalist, Ernest Hemingway. The author who wrote “For Whom the Bell Tolls’ among other literary pieces is one of the most celebrated American novelists. Hemingway, lived through the First World War and the Second World War. Now he not only is in the hearts of Hemingway fans, he is also in Legoland.