Creativity And Emotions In Quill

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Creativity and emotions are unwanted in the town of Quill. There are 3 groups that you are born to be in, an unwanted, necessary and wanted's.I knew that I was unwanted when i was 10 when I started drawing in the dirt with sticks using the creative side of my brain, I wasn't emotionless and disciplined like my brother Aaron Stowe or hardworking like the necessaries that work on the farms. There is a purge every year for the unwanted to get eliminated or executed that day was today. Nervous for my life a few hours later we are there and my name is called up “Alex Stowe”. Back outside his mom says”We should've taken his shoes” with no emotions or care that his son is about to be killed. Thrown in a bus like i'm useless we are sent to the lake

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