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Child's Play - Cords and Wires

Mommy says my eyes don’t work, so I took the batteries from my fire-engine and asked her if they could help. Without batteries, the siren doesn’t go off and the little men inside it stop talking. Batteries make all that stuff happen. But Mommy says that wires in my head are broken so batteries won’t help. I guess it’s like the time I took apart my typewriter to see how it worked. It had lots of cool wires in it. I put it back together but the buttons wouldn’t press down. Daddy was mad. He said I had broken the wires inside. Now I have to get a new one for school. I wonder if I can get new eyes?

I ask Mommy but she starts to cry.

To make her happy again, I ask her what the sun looks like. We are outside on the grass and the sun is warm on my face. It feels like the kitchen when Mommy is cooking. I ask Mommy if the sun is a stove. She laughs and hugs me. She says the sun is a huge light bulb in the sky. It makes the world bright during the day and goes out at night. I ask her if the sun needs batteries to work and she says no. She says it works like the radio that had a long cord running from it to the wall. I remember pulling out that cord and sticking my finger in the hole. That hurt and my finger still has a bump.

I wonder where the cord for the sun goes. It must be a big cord to be able to make the sun work. We only have little cords in our house and Daddy says I shouldn’t touch them. But I want to know how the sun works. Things with cords never need batteries and always work. Maybe I could get a cord for my eyes. I could exchange the new wires in the cord for the broken wires in my head. Cool! I wonder if the store sells cords…

 

 (c) Kristy Kassie, 2006

Point of View

The point of view from which a piece of fiction is written provides readers with character insights, setting and plot. Writing the same story from different points of view can introduce new dimensions and perspectives.

A child will tell a story differently from an adult; Grumpy sees events differently from Snow White. Experimenting with points of view can improve your writing by making you think like your characters.

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