Insecurity and Creativity: A Child's Perspective

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INCIDENT A few months ago, a child named Hajile Lutz decided to show off some drawings of hers to her friends. This child, still a sixth-grader, was always thinking her ideas weren’t good enough. She would look at someone else’s ideas, characters, and story, in general, and she would think the person was brilliant. That they were greater than her, in more ways than she could say. So once day, Hajile decided to make a story. She was drowning in ideas she had, the ones she didn’t have the confidence to write. She wrote about four kids. Four kids playing a game. What harm could that do? However, easily-influenced Hajile made a mistake. She thought a scene from something she saw was perfect. It was perfect in every way her scene’s weren’t. So she brought it over. She tweaked it, that’s true, tuned it to her story like it was a …show more content…

Another person said that they wish several characters were real-- so they could attack, and potentially kill, this young child. All she did was make a gif about their character looking between their arms, confused. That was all she did and why was everyone so mad? She looked back at the journal. Until now, Hajile will never realize how adamant, how naive, how ignorant that person was. Why was she claiming she stole her character? Oh, why it was because Hajile’s character was smiling. Their eyes shined and they had short hair. However, their hair was completely different. All Hajile wanted to do was make a character with a headband. Hajile knew this, however, at the time. That if she gave her character long hair, this person would still say that she copied, because the person has another character, one with long hair. RESPONSE (CHOICE) Desperate for people to understand that she didn’t mean it, she said the same thing to everyone who commented. That it wasn’t intention and that she’s sorry. She sorry and she repeated that line over and

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