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A child’s reality is shaped by the world in which they grow. When we are first born, we are helpless, wandering creatures, seeking to make sense of the world around us, to determine who we are by the values we celebrate and notions we condemn. As a child, it is inevitably clear that we have no sense of right and wrong and our decision making skills are often very inept, based more on good hunch than through retrieval of experiences. These inane dependent qualities that children hold ensures that their reality is shaped by their environmental factors- it is prudent to say that no child is completely inoculate from the outside influences, their tinkering curiosities and their limitless imagination will triumph in the least, even with the exception that perhaps their lack of worldly senses render them the most open towards the unknown and mystery. However, this does not completely convey that children have no control in retaining or adopting a reality, they may still encroach on some ideals and values on their grounds, but this sense is magnified as the child reaches adolescences, skewed into confronting the world around them in preference to obedience. At this phase the child’s perception of the world is not “shaped”, implying passivity, but challenged by their surroundings. As a child, we are both shaped by our surroundings, sometimes within our scope of control. This is difficult or perhaps even impossible as a young babe, but as the child matures into adolescence, it is plausible to state that their choice to reject, accept, celebrate or condemn nurtures.
Like we had no control over the birth of ourselves or to whom we are born to, similarly, a child cannot completely be free of outside influences, whether they may like to acknowledge its existence or not. This notion is exemplified in Robert Drewe’s ‘The Shark Net’ wherein the protagonist young Robert Drewe is afflicted from guilt ‘most Friday nights’, an emotion that arises from his parent’s condemnation towards adolescent’s curiosity for the opposite sex. His vigorous rubbing of mouth, desperate attempt in masking ‘girl smells’ or removal of suspicious ‘grass clippings’ are in accordance to his mother’s disapproval for ‘teenage evil-side’ and his father’s burning of ‘The Mirror’- ‘the local Saturday sex-and-scandal’ sheet. Despite that his interest in girls is a natural behaviour, this is not considered moral in his household and this conclusion propels him to feel a sense of shame. In the case of Drewe’s reality, despite he does not share his parent’s view as his Saturday night-outs continue, can’t help but to be influenced by his parent’s notion that his behaviour is unacceptable.
Despite the powers of influence, it of course does not imply that all of children’s free realities are obliterated by the time of adulthood. Despite many adults find it difficult to revive their imaginative and open-minded qualities of a child in communicating with the current generation of the young, some adults prove that this is not the case for all as we draw on Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s novel ‘The little Prince’ whose narrator, the aeroplane pilot, essentially represent that children’s creative reality can remain intact, even though some trifles and drabness of adulthood dangers to obliterate it. The little boy who later grows up to be a pilot was raised in an environment where his picture of ‘boa constrictor digesting an elephant’ was undervalued as ‘a hat’. He was often told to stop drawing, advised to study by the pessimistic and self-interested adults who eventually influenced him to reject his ideal reality of an artist . Despite this, when visited upon the little prince who resides in asteroid-325 when his plane crashes down, he displays enough child in him to understand and befriend the foreign little prince. Although his drawing are no longer skilful, his imagination that had resided in him as a child had not been afflicted despite whose life as a young had been influenced to discard this quality. In the case of the pilot, his reality formed as a child survived through the judging eyes of the adults because he, as young as he was, believed in his notion. Therefore, despite the environmental factors are influential to some degree in a child’s perception of the world, it would be imprudent to state that a child has no control over their reality.
As the child progresses into adolescence, this idea is even more strongly evident. The previous complacency of the child is now subjected to rebellion. This means that the child is no longer simply ‘shaped’ by the outside influences, which connotes passivity; it is challenged by the world in which they grow up. Drawing onto ‘The Shark Net’ once again, Drewe triumphs over his mother’s conservative values as she aims to shame his son on his “actions” that had resulted in his girlfriend, Ruth, pregnant at a young age of eighteen. Despite always having been exposed to Dorothy’s conservative nature towards boys who are zealous from experiencing quaint hormonal changes, such as those braying ‘breeaassst’, Drewe breaks away from his mother’s view and procures his own reality, informing her of his own interpretation of the situation including that it is ‘not worse than adultery’ and that he ‘will get married’. In the case of Drewe, the reality of his actions were completely opposing to his mother’s interpretation despite his mother’s presence had been acute in the his childhood pages. For us then, the message is clear: a child’s reality is no longer significantly shaped all ideals in the world as they mature, but now bears the capability to distinguish those that are relevant and those that are to be atrophied.
The understanding that arises then is that a child’s reality can be both swayed or firm in which they grow up. It is impossible for children, if not humans, to be influenced to some degree by outside stimulus, and often this is the case. However, there can be times when which the child’s reality is in stronger accordance to the influence and this sense is only strengthened as the child matures into adolescence. Humanity, thus, should acknowledge the power of influence and its relationship with the reality of young children for the preservation of curiosity, imagination and openness into adulthood to serve its merits in society.
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