Duck Story
In class earlier this week we talked about how writing is a social activity. A writer’s work is not completely theirs since they have been influenced by other people in many different ways. Our assignment (though this could just be a joke and I just didn’t realize it) was to write a story about a duck and then talk about how different people helped enable us to create that story.
My dad one time volunteered me to help out at an Easter event years ago. To help I had to dress up as a duck and have kids sit on my lap and take pictures. This even took place in the park at Pennsville. While the event only took around four hours, I believe I managed to hit around twenty kids with the beak of my costume. This was not intentional; it happened a lot when I was trying to make sure the kid was situated on my lap. I had a lot of difficulty adjusting to my face being an extra foot longer than normal. At the end of the event I went behind a truck to take my costume off so that I was out of the eyes of the kids. Unfortunately, some kids had decided to follow the giant duck and saw the duck take his head off. I realized this when I heard crying and turned to see some kids running away.
While I was the one to experience this event as a giant duck, the story would not exist if it wasn’t for others. For starter, my dad was the one that volunteered me for this event. I actually had a school event I wanted to attend and couldn’t due to this event. Also, the children that attended the event as well as the people who organized the event made the experience of dressing up as a duck possible. Without them I would be writing a completely different duck story. The most recent influence on this story is my class. If it wasn’t for my classmates and professor, I wouldn’t even be writing this story. Therefore while I am technically alone while writing this, in no way is my creation of this story a solitary action.
Tags: children, dressing up, duck, Easter, Pennsville
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