- I chose this idea because being a son of immigrant parents I know what it is like to fear losing your parents. I was born in the US, but my parents were born in Mexico. One time my mom was detained at the border but luckily she was able to get back to us. I feel something awful when it comes to hearing that there are kids locked in cages. I have a big fear of watching little kids suffer because kids are innocent and don’t know what’s going on most of the time and to see them suffer just gets me.
- I hope to communicate that it is wrong to keep children in cells. I hate to see children behind cages or bars because I can only imagine how scared they must feel and how it might affect them later on in their lives.
- I don’t think I was as successful as I would like to be mostly because I showed this to my mom and she didn’t understand what it was. And so if my mom couldn’t understand it then I don’t think other people will get it. It may have to do with my drawing and how poor it was but that was the best I could do.
- I would probably draw more detail in the back and maybe make the picture a bit more exact. My picture shows a sad kid behind bars but nothing else. I think I would draw his whole body to make sure people know that it is a child.
- Something else I wanted to explore was wild fires. In California, 95% of wildfires are caused by humans. Now I’m not sure exactly how many fires are caused by careless human actions, but I would explore something along those lines. Like the message smokey the bear tries to get out with the cigarettes and the fires.
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