WORK FOR WEEK FOUR
A
child meets someone frightening
How do
you indicate a child’s view of things?
Partly by the language you use, choice of vocab. Partly by the child’s points of
reference. Partly, perhaps mainly, by the setting and
circumstances
The
person may be
· really
threatening – a kidnapper, or escaped axe-murderer on the run, teacher, step-father/mother, a judge in
court.
How do you do this without it getting too
melodramatic? You may need to do some
research about actual kidnappings or people on the run. Focus needs to be especially on what they do
and say (or don’t say). Of course the
teacher or other adult may be feared because of something the child has done
and is afraid of being caught by their sudden return home.
· imagined as
threatening – person from a different
background, country, race, or by reputation,
a ghost in the attic, their real father.
They’ve
never seen a short person, a posh person, a black person, a disabled person, a Japanese person. They may have picked up all kinds of myths
at school, or from a trusted by over imaginative friend. They may have all kinds of fearful
preconceptions/prejudices, which make the person frightening before they’ve met
them. They may have had particular
experiences - war, crime, prison, mental
hospital.
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