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Normally I despise anything involving children (anything cinematic or literary, I mean; I'm not quite that hateful in reality), but recently, for reasons unknown to me, I began to write a story from the perspective of a third-grader. I hate it when books do that, yet yesterday alone I painlessly wrote 6300 words, and all of it recounted from the perspective of that young boy...
Is this a gimmick? I've always felt like it was - as if it were just a ploy, a fail-safe scheme to contrast the innocence of a child against the awful reality of the world while simultaneously generating an emotional attachment (oh, he's just so sweet! how can I not love this little boy?), etc., etc. So, yes, I am ashamed, but it just fits so well with the story... Is it widely regarded as a gimmick, or am I just unusually cynical? It wouldn't surprise me if either were the case, so that's why I bring the question here.
Is this a gimmick? I've always felt like it was - as if it were just a ploy, a fail-safe scheme to contrast the innocence of a child against the awful reality of the world while simultaneously generating an emotional attachment (oh, he's just so sweet! how can I not love this little boy?), etc., etc. So, yes, I am ashamed, but it just fits so well with the story... Is it widely regarded as a gimmick, or am I just unusually cynical? It wouldn't surprise me if either were the case, so that's why I bring the question here.