The Stars

Their Worlds, In their Words

In looking at kids and their view of the world through story, we've come to see a synchronous existence of pathos or despair and altruistic optimism. Younger students were asked to tell a story and three were chosen which show the degree to which young minds and hearts can be torn by the world around them. In these stories a sense of doom pervades. They are a window into a world too many of us only pay lip service to. They are, in fact, the stars we should help to save.

SAD CLOWN

I am...a clown

I wonder if I can change

I hear laughing

I see happy faces

I want to be like them

I am very sad

I pretend I am changed

I feel very sad

I touch my heart

I worry I will be like this all the time

I cry in my heart

I am a sad clown

I understand where I was wrong

I say I laugh too much

I dream of changing

I try to change

Some day I hope my dream comes true

I am a sad clown

I am looking for my dog.

I wonder here my dog is.

I hear my dog.

I see my dog I want my dog back.

I am going to find my dog.

I pretend that I see my dog in the street.

I feel my dog with me.

I touch my dog in my dream.

I worry about my dog.

I cry because my dog is lost.

I am going to dream about my dog.

I understand that my dog went away.

I say to my friend to look for my dog.

I dream about my dog every day.

I try to find my dog.

I hope that my dog is fine.

I am still hoping he'll come back some day.

I am thinking of my family

I wonder how they are

I hear their steps

I see their shadow

I want to see them

I am thinking of my family

I pretend to be with them

I feel their hand in mine

I touch my heart to think of them

I worry about them

I cry for them

I am thinking of my family

I understand everything they say

I try to stop crying

I hope to have them together

I am thinking of my family.