Assignment 7- Children's Storybook
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Being the most important part of the entire portfolio, this was one project that I placed a lot of emphasis on. My group, Elizabeth, Furzanne and I got together to decide on the main storyline together the very lecture at which this was announced.
We decided on the theme of " Being loved even when you are different". This was partially inspired by the original theme which Julian gave us : God Created fly and forgot why
The main theme was forgotten; the character was created differently by God and was afterwards forgotten by its peers and left being ignored and unloved. This is a common situation even among young children, those who look different from most of them will be ostracized.
Thus, this is one important point we want to bring across to young children, whether they are the ones being bullied or are ostracizing others. We want to teach them that it does not matter if they are different, they might be given a special difference to be a hero to the others.
After showing our individual stories to the class, we decided on Elizabeth's story of a rabbit borned with wings. However, we were told to make some changes to the story. One point brought up was the theme of Death that Elizabeth added in to her story, was deemed to be not suitable for children . Elizabeth's rationale was that no mother will abandone the child even if the child is different. So, we have to think of a way to not let the mother be in the story, but yet still make the little rabbit sad enough to leave home, which was part of her storyline. In conclusion, we have decided to use her story but change it according to suggestions.
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