Open Stories: Two Tales From Aizawl
The first story describes a young girl who eats a great deal of food and grows fat, and her subsequent reconciliation with the idea of beauty. This story was created by two girls and comprised seven picture slides to which the girls added narrative texts. Slide 1 depicts a girl eating food with a spoon. In the second slide, three young children are laughing, playing and dancing in circles . The third slide shows the picture of a girl standing before a mirror, gazing at herself. Her stance indicates that she is speculating. In slide 4, there is a bear with a happy expression. The fifth slide depicts a young child with her parent (mother). The parent appears to be scolding the child, who is crying. In slide 6, the earlier image of a young girl gazing speculatively in the mirror is reused. The final slide, slide 7, reuses the image of the three children playing and dancing in circles, and laughing. The accompanying narrative for the story was: once there was a girl who loved to eat a lot of food/ everyday she eat more and more/ she was bigger than all her friends/ one day she look herself in a mirror/ she found that she was as fat as a bear/ she ran to her mom and told her about how she feel/ mom told her that, ‘you may be happy on how you look..’/ she look herself in the mirror again/ and notice that she was the most beautiful girl in the world/ then, she continued to live her life happily … The end ..
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The first story describes a young girl who eats a great deal of food and grows fat, and her subsequent reconciliation with the idea of beauty. This story was created by two girls and comprised seven picture slides to which the girls added narrative texts. Slide 1 depicts a girl eating food with a spoon. In the second slide, three young children are laughing, playing and dancing in circles . The third slide shows the picture of a girl standing before a mirror, gazing at herself. Her stance indicates that she is speculating. In slide 4, there is a bear with a happy expression. The fifth slide depicts a young child with her parent (mother). The parent appears to be scolding the child, who is crying. In slide 6, the earlier image of a young girl gazing speculatively in the mirror is reused. The final slide, slide 7, reuses the image of the three children playing and dancing in circles, and laughing. The accompanying narrative for the story was: once there was a girl who loved to eat a lot of food/ everyday she eat more and more/ she was bigger than all her friends/ one day she look herself in a mirror/ she found that she was as fat as a bear/ she ran to her mom and told her about how she feel/ mom told her that, ‘you may be happy on how you look..’/ she look herself in the mirror again/ and notice that she was the most beautiful girl in the world/ then, she continued to live her life happily … The end ..
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