Posted by happyflower on October 7, 2007, at 17:12:16
In reply to Re: What is the silver lining of child abuse? » happyflower, posted by Dinah on October 7, 2007, at 15:41:41
There are other views to take for this assignment, but we have to use these so called experts. One believes in the silver lining, the other that it is all in the child's imagination, and the other one is from a femenist expert on how women in fairy tales are portrayed negatively of women. I can either agree with them or disagree with them,but I have to use the story of Hansel and Gretel to prove my view I am wanting to make.
This isn't a class about child abuse, it is a writing class, where it is their job to get us to stretch our minds and think of an aspect and write about it. The so called expert in my book do show that child abuse is hard to prove in sociiety because society doesn't want to beleive it. But those of us who have been there, know the truth.
I really wasn't trying to upset anyone, I know child abuse is so wrong, and I was having trouble coming up with a silver lining in my own life.You said: I guess I don't see a silver lining in violent death or near death experience. The good comes out of what people make of their experiences, not the experience itself.
But what I am wondering is if the experience is what made the person take the initiative in making the most out of it. Does that make any sense?
I guess this assignment is getting me to do what it was suppose to do, think about these situations. My T does believe in making the most out of things, so maybe that is why he believes in the silver lining. He doesn't belive child abuse is good either, it would be better to have no child abuse and no silver lining, as opposed to the opposite, but the reality is that child abuse is more rampant than we want to believe. IT is a hard topic to write about and think about.
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