My story is about my life with my best friend and how she became such a person of worth in my life. It is a true story. It is not imagined. In my story, I talk about my friend who gave me sadness. I trusted her and she showed me hurt I didn’t deserve. This taught me about people. I hope my readers learn that trusting people isn’t always good enough. I hope to help all refugees to learn through me and change their lives through what happened in my story. Thank you for reading my story.
Stone Soup Magazine for young readers, writers, and artists
Interview with Blandine
Thank you for sharing this powerful story with us. Could you tell us about what inspired you to write it? I chose to write what I am going through as a young girl to archive my goals and experiences. I hope my readers will take a good message from it. I would also like to share my story with those who live lives such as mine. This life is painful, but we should not give up even if we pass through many difficult things. We must stand up and show those who ignore the poor that even the poor are important and they deserve a better life. What messages do you hope your readers will take away from your story? I hope my readers learn how to be nice to poor people because not everyone is rich and we all have ups and downs but poor people suffer the most. I hope they will know how children who are in poor families suffer and how they can be ignored. What, from your perspective, is the point of storytelling? Why do we tell stories, what do they do for us, and what purpose do they serve? I can define storytelling as the way of letting people know what is going on, what was in the past or will be in the future. I tell stories to make people know things that they were not knowing. Stories show how we are unique. The writing and telling of stories helps us to develop skills. Did your story change over the course of your participation in the storytelling workshops? How? It changed some. I was advised to modify some paragraphs by my peer reviewer which was helpful to me. As a writer, I have grown in unique ways. I can now define storytelling and writing more clearly, and I have also learned how to express my feelings more effectively. How does your story offer an alternative path, point of view, or way forward? How does it speak to the possibility of an otherwise? I look forward to seeing children from underprivileged backgrounds being treated with the same respect and care as children from wealthier families. Poor girls, in particular, deserve to be respected just as boys are. Boys should not assume that girls from poorer backgrounds deserve less. It is essential to understand that everyone deserves equal treatment and respect.
Interview with Nicole
Thank you for sharing this powerful story with us. Could you tell us about what inspired you to write it? My story is a true story and not from the imagination. I have written this story about the death of my father, and how my family went from a bad life to a good life. You must understand how life can change and you must work hard in life because life is like a circle. I get through life by trusting in God and I tried to capture this in my story. What messages do you hope your readers will take away from your story? I hope my readers will benefit from this story and the message that is here in this story. I hope my readers will be inspired by this story because my story shows how life changes. You can be rich today, but tomorrow you may become poor. What, from your perspective, is the point of storytelling? Why do we tell stories, what do they do for us, and what purpose do they serve? We tell stories in order to motivate, counsel and inspire people, to help them pick lessons from us via stories, information, experiences. Did your story change over the course of your participation in the storytelling workshops? How? Yes. My story changed in many ways. I worked on showing the reader how my story unfolded rather than just telling the events. I also changed the title to make it more attractive. How does your story offer an alternative path, point of view, or way forward? How does it speak to the possibility of an otherwise? My story shows an alternative path because although there are a lot of sad scenes and it is a sorrowful story, it shows that we can have hope. I believe that reading my story can help someone to learn a positive lesson.
