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May 22, 2007 The lines seem to have blurred between fiction and non-fiction in our world today. Fiction is just lies. Non-fiction is the facts/truth not opinion. So, how do I write this? I have to tell my son not to write what he wants, because of the fear of some teacher might see what he writes. Let me explain, my son wrote after the "Virginia Tech" incident something that got turned into the guidance counselor and then to me. I have a thirteen year old boy, who is interested in lots of things. He wanted to pay attention to a substitute teacher but others in his class were loud and disrespectful to the sub. He asked to go to the library, the librarian saw over his shoulder something he was writing. I had of course not the politically correct opinion of what my child wrote. I was happy he was "venting" his feelings on paper. When I was a teen I had some anger issues about being abused by my mother. I wrote my feelings out, sometimes in graphic ways, to not harm anybody alive, just the people on paper. I taught my son to do the same. What I wrote was fiction. What my son wrote was fiction. I guess the movie makers need to stop writing movies like "Saw". I think there also needs to be people at the movie theaters to monitor people to see if they are mentally stable, before and after seeing a movie where the plot moves forward because of violence. As I stated I live in Virginia, where a man went nuts at a college. It is sad. It is reprehensible that the man could not be prevented from getting a gun. It is not societies fault that this man was mentally ill. But we look for a blame or reason to say we could have prevented what he did, by looking at what he wrote. I write. I read horror books. I have watched disturbing horror movies with my mother when she was alive and I was very young, (I choose not to watch those movies now because I don't like them.) I use murder to move my plots along sometimes. Should I stop this? Do my readers think I am a murderer because I write about murder? I don't think so, now as I said as a parent I have to make a choice: Do I tell my son what I do is wrong and tell him that writing his feelings down could be used against him? Or do I continue encouraging him to write? Yes, he wrote about using a gun, he has written about using swords too. My son is a boy, who also plays video games (not first person shooters because I don't like those, but games with swords are okay). I guess all parents are facing these issues. I don't want my son suspended for writing a story or drawing pictures that are not politically correct. I do want to encourage creativity. Should my son only write about skipping in fields picking flowers or draw pictures of fairy princess's getting married? Or can he express himself, like I do and have. Should parents stop their children from reading J.K Rowlings books about Harry Potter, she murders characters. Should parents not let their children read the bible because of all the sex, incest, rape, war and violence. Maybe we, parents, should advocate illiteracy to stop violent thought.
People this is about control and the need for others
to have that control over you. Nobody can predict the
bad from happening nor stop it, all a person can do is
control themselves and trust that they won't be around
when bad things happen.
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