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I am Just finishing to the end of chapter 1 ,  and now starting to make inroads to chapter 2 which is about young people's and children's narratives. Entitled 'From Crib to youtube'  this chapter explores creativity in young people. About how they create short stories and plays. This is very interesting as it reminds me of when I was young and used to make up stories with my younger sister. 

I had been very impressed by the book the Lion, the witch and the wardrobe by C S Lewis, and In our bedroom we had this huge walk-in wardrobe, there I used to get into the wardrobe with my sister and pretend that when we opened the door, we had arrived in another land, a fantasy land. 

We had a name for it and for all the chatacters who were based on our toys ie teddy, panda, monkey and lamb, as well as some of our dolls. The room was this fantasy land that we explore and meet these unusual characters!

The bed became the boat in which we sailed across to another Island, but that was a bit more sinister place, where there was buried treasure but all kinds of hazards and advenures!. However we always returned back to safety!

This was a way of connecting my thoughts to childrens narratives and short stories,  to make sense of it by comparing how imaginative stories were then,  to how children make stories up today.

These days children are more influenced by characters from computer games,  such as super mario brothers, car driving games, adventure games or others like tomb raider, or the marvel characters or Harry Potter. They also like Manga adventures. So today Characters in childrens stories may be  influenced more by computer games. I have myself observed this behaviour, from watching my own children play and while babysitting for friends.