good story
... girl who has stayed in the front yard all her life. The charity children in the backyard seem to have a lot more fun and don’t have a certain time they have to go in. The young girl whom the poem is about is sick of her perfect life in the front yard and would like to play with the children in the backyard. Her mother doesn’t approve of this because they are charity children from a lower class and she thinks that they are all going to grow up and be bad women. The aspects of the poem that most influenced my story would be that the mother of the young girl in the poem doesn’t approve of her associating with girls of a lower class because she thinks that they are going to be a bad influence and grow up to be bad people. This is very much the same situation as the girl in my story, Isobel, and her mother. I got my ideas for my writing basically just from reading the poem as it is on simular lines to it. I focused on what was to become my story as I thought it would be good as most people my age could relate to it in some way. My experiences of my own that I drew on don’t happen now that I’m older, but when I was in the first few years of high school my mother would tell me her opinions and views of the friends I had. It wasn’t anything to do with that they were of a lower class than us but more on the lines of that my friends weren’t the right type of girls to be hanging around with at my age, mainly because they would have been doing things that that they shouldn’t have been experiencing at such a young age. The main discourses that are operating in my story are that parents shouldn’t judge their children’s friends as everyone should find out things in life by themselves. Also another message that my story is portraying is not to judge a book by its cover. You shouldn’t judge someone by the way they look or come across, it’s what’s inside that counts. Isobel’s mother thinks she holds the p...