Childhood: How Cruel It Is
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Kelly-Ann Kraehn
Ms. Kuindersma
ELI OAI
January 8 1998
Childhood: How Cruel it is
It is all around us, on television mostly. More often of not it will appear on a Talk show of ill
repute. "I was abused as a child, therefore I am the way I am." It is popular to admit to childhood traumas
and talk about them on a stage in front of strangers with millions of viewers watching from their living
rooms; However, in literature it is less common. In particular authors rarely examine the childhood woes of
little girls. In the book Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood explores the politics and formalities that Elaine must
conform to as a child, the cruelty of friends at a young age, and the immediate and long term affects this has on her life.
In her early...