Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:52:05 -0400
From: "Hobey Ford" <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] dealing with tragedy


Well the discussion has been helpful.  I guess with Hunchback  I still
don't know why I love the story. It  is very bleak,  Its definitely
not a horror story but an examination of  how we look each other's
humanity through our looks, stereotypes appearances.  The old woman
hates the gypsy girl because the gypies stole her daughter accept that
she doesn't realizes that it is her daughter.  The gypsy esmerelda
loves the beautiful master of the guard yet he is the one who brutally
murders her mother and the hunchback, who has the biggest heart of all
sees himself as supremely ugly.  Such a lot of work just to bum out
the audience.  I will get to it eventually though.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Christopher Hudert
<heyhoot-AT-mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 29, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Chris Griffith wrote:
>
>> We've talked about child abuse, suicide, death, parents who don't love
>> their children, racism, sexism, addiction, you-name-it.  These kids
>> not only keep up with the conversation, they are 100% engaged in it
>> because it is what they see and experience daily.  And they are
>> teaching me, also, to not shy away from these issues.
>
>  Generally speaking, I find that if you treat a subject (and its
> audience) with respect and intelligence you can go almost anywhere,
> even with children. I don't dumb down to their level (because often you
> will find you are the dumb one and not them), but neither do I delve
> further into it than they demonstrate they want to go, or burden things
> with too much information. In discussion it is fairly easy to ask kids
> why and what  they want to know about something, but you've go to be
> sure to answer their questions. Sometimes it is easy to get caught up
> in the (for lack of a better word) horror of such issues being dealt
> with at such young ages, and forget to get back to the answering part
> of the discussion. Even when they don't experience such horrors and
> tragedy first hand they are exposed to it on TV through commercials and
> programs, and video games.
>
>   Far better to openly and honestly discuss things than to create
> secrets that they are going to want to discover the answers to. But
> that leads to another discussion for another time and place.
>
> Christopher
>
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