Jimmy Jet and His TV Set | Shel Silverstein

Summary: Jimmy Jet and His TV Set by Shel Silberstein is a poem about boy named Jim who turns into a TV set from watching too much TV

Characters:

Speaker - Narrator that tells us what happens to Jim

Stanza 1:

The speaker tells us that there is a boy named Jimmy Jet who loves to watch television almost as much as the audience
The speaker tells us to believe him that what he tells us about Jimmy Jet is true

Stanza 2:

The speaker tells us that Jimmy Jet watched TV "all day" and "all night" until he grew "pale and lean"
The speaker tells us that Jimmy Jet watched all the shows that he could

Stanza 3:

Jimmy Jet's eyes grow "frozen wide" and Jimmy Jet's bottom has grown into "his chair"
Jimmy Jet's chin turns into a tuning dial and an "antennae" grew from his hair
Jimmy starts his transition into becoming a television

Stanza 4:

Jimmy Jet's brain turns into TV tubes and his face into a screen and his ears become knobs which read "VERT." and "HORIZ."
Jimmy continues to transition his whole being into a television

Stanza 5:

Jimmy Jet grows a plug like a "tail" and completes his transformation into a television
Jimmy Jet is plugged and and people watch him instead of a television

Other Notes:

This poem seems to tell the audience to be aware of one's passions for in the end we become the very thing that we are passionate about
It seems that Shel Silverstein is trying to tell us that growing into something we love excessively comes in stages so we have a chance to be aware of what we're turning into, but in the end if we ignore these stages we will become what we love to do