M e m o r y: Picture Fail
By AAR
Disclaimer: I don't own this
Ness idly tapped a pencil on his desk. In front of him was a book (a very, very good book) about Civil Rights, a blank sheet of paper with another sheet of paper saying the instructions.
'…find a picture in the book that you like, and copy it by hand onto the blank sheet of paper.'
Easier said than done.
Ness flipped through the pages for the fifteenth time that period, and mumbled a low curse at the same cartoony picture he encountered again. It was very racist, considering the picture had a Southerner saying something in bad, muddled English to a corpse of an African American child.
He liked it, because it seemed simple to draw. So after he went through a painstakingly detailed sketch, Ness was struck by the idea that it could possibly be inappropriate. It was a death of a child after all…something his homeroom teacher prissy 'Master Hand'–didn't like.
Obviously he showed it to Master Hand. And after he got a thorough dressing down by Master Hand, Ness was told to sit back down, and find another picture.
Page after page, black and white photos were displayed, none of them actually appropriate enough to display for a junior high. Ness gave an exhausted, quiet groan of defeat, staring at the blasted front cover that he wasn't allowed to use.
Master Hand's dry voice sliced into his thought process, "Sometimes Ness, I don't think you think stuff out enough." Ness flushed a light pink.
He retorted:
"That's what my mom says."
True story here guys. And FYI, I did find an appropriate picture. It took me about two hours in all.