https://padlet.com/yanoverfieldshaw/uk5p3grtma0p698x Write at least one part of a "stolen biography" for the narrator of Donald Barthelme's "The Baby". Try to include some details that seem inconsistent/incongruous to keep the character surprising and convincing. Use/develop the headings from the exercise (e.g., "His Father's/Mother's + noun", "The + noun", "Listening in", "First criticism", "Fantasies", "Self Criticism", "Reprise", etc.) en-us 2022-02-16 11:20:48 UTC 2022-02-23 06:16:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/1582834510/951aea8c338ca39d9cacd6517e67c03b/Donald_Barthelme__author_.jpg https://padlet.com/yanoverfieldshaw/uk5p3grtma0p698x/wish/2060070563 She had a caretaker who is the daughter of the family living in the adjecent house. Her father did not want her babysitting anymore after an insignificant matter. She misses her and watches her through the window go to her high school every morning.]]> 2022-02-22 07:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/yanoverfieldshaw/uk5p3grtma0p698x/wish/2060070563 https://padlet.com/yanoverfieldshaw/uk5p3grtma0p698x/wish/2060071336 Once when he was 10 years old, he tried to avoid eating his vegetables by throwing them in the trashcan when his dad wasn't looking. When his father noticed, he made him pick the vegetables one by one and eat them, the entire time cursing the day he conceived such a good for nothing failure. Later when the child got sick, his father sat at the end of his bed with his palm on the child's forehead testing his fever. "This'll teach you to follow rules" he says. ]]> 2022-02-22 07:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/yanoverfieldshaw/uk5p3grtma0p698x/wish/2060071336 https://padlet.com/yanoverfieldshaw/uk5p3grtma0p698x/wish/2060072761 He's 4. One day after his father locked him in his room because he refused to eat his vegetables, talking to a stuffed animal: "you're gonna sit on the chair for as long as I say so because that's the rule and you have to listen to me"]]> 2022-02-22 07:57:25 UTC https://padlet.com/yanoverfieldshaw/uk5p3grtma0p698x/wish/2060072761 https://padlet.com/yanoverfieldshaw/uk5p3grtma0p698x/wish/2060075118 I dream of the highway. I dream of the sound of the engine and the silence of being on my own. Maybe I'll have another child. One that will not tear apart pages from my books. One that will not force me to lock it down. Who knows... maybe I can even like this next one.]]> 2022-02-22 07:59:10 UTC https://padlet.com/yanoverfieldshaw/uk5p3grtma0p698x/wish/2060075118 https://padlet.com/yanoverfieldshaw/uk5p3grtma0p698x/wish/2060077418 A brown leather-textured notebook falls out of the glove compartment as he opens it. He picks it up then thinks a little before pouring out his thoughts on papers that seemed like they were missing his hand. A habit of philosophical reflection he has and usually a sense of openness to ideas that disarm his views. Although his attitude might portray a hostile front, his heart is open to ideas. The way he places the notebook back into the compartment is as gently as a parent that tucks their child in bed at 9 PM. A surprising fellow.]]> 2022-02-22 08:00:50 UTC https://padlet.com/yanoverfieldshaw/uk5p3grtma0p698x/wish/2060077418 https://padlet.com/yanoverfieldshaw/uk5p3grtma0p698x/wish/2060079496 When he was five, instead of eating his brussel sprouts, he decided to shove a fork in to the electrical outlet in the kitchen. It wasn't the scream that made his parents rush to the kitchen to check on him, but it was the fact that he blew the fuses of the house and the TV was not working anymore. Luckily his fork had a plastic handle, he still gets shivers down his spine when he sees an outlet while holding a fork.]]> 2022-02-22 08:02:27 UTC https://padlet.com/yanoverfieldshaw/uk5p3grtma0p698x/wish/2060079496 https://padlet.com/yanoverfieldshaw/uk5p3grtma0p698x/wish/2060083238 "My dad used to torture me with his mindset, so, I wanted to do the same thing to my daughter as well, but it seems like she doesn't care. Maybe I should have been more stringent to discipline her."]]> 2022-02-22 08:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/yanoverfieldshaw/uk5p3grtma0p698x/wish/2060083238