Junkyard quote 1, week 1

While holding my two year-old nephew at the McDonald's playground he looks up at the plastic dolphins and manta rays hanging from the ceiling and says, "I not sceered" with a somewhat affected smile. What is interesting to me is that Kade is already learning socially conditioned responses such as the fact that boys are not supposed to admit fear. Kade, most certainly, was scared as he kept telling me to hold him and wouldn't let me put him down, and this quote, to me, illustrates not only social conditioning, but also the fact that, unlike in straight journalism, in creative non-fiction, sometimes what is said is not the complete story and that the hidden context can often be more interesting and telling.