Week 5, Discussion Question # 9

Jazmine Navarro

It is more effective to use a child than an adult when wanting to elict an emotional response. Yes, it is heartbreaking when something terrible happens to an adult, but it is soul taking when it happens to a child. In most pepoles eyes an adult can take care of themselves and handle what is thrown at them, but children are innocent and helpless. When we hear about a child being hurt we want to run and help them - take the hurt away and bring it about ourselves and when we hear about an adult being hurt we sympathize - we feel for them. If the father had been the narrator we would feel heartbroken for him, but it would not affect us like an innocent child would. It qould have changed the mood of the story. It would have been a story of a man going through tragic times instead of a child going through things they should never go through.