A Response to a comment re:kids

Posted at: http://thehumanstrain.blogspot.com/

who wrote........Take the book Lord of the Flies http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Flies-William-Golding/dp/0399501487 for an example of how children without adult supervision can become violent...............

My response

As part of my creative writing module I reviewed a short story by Julie Orringer, entitled ‘The Pilgrims’ from her book of short stories ‘Learning to Breathe Underwater’.

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/how_breathe_underwater2.asp

This was an example of how children without adult supervision become ‘deadly.’ Prior to reading your blogspot, I looked at the story with an artistic eye (i.e. written in what voice/genre etc) but really the story was also an example of what happens when you leave children unsupervised for ‘short’ periods of times, and the end result is a shocking death. The children in the story are not very ‘old’ either, they are ‘pre-teens’, unlike the movie ‘Kids’ though – their actions are not shocking or hard to take in. It’s just kids being kids at the end of the day. MAybe an example that kids need adult supervision for at least 16 years