Invisble Children
Invisible Children
The single title “Daughters of the Teardrop Sea” now includes ‘Book II: Invisible Children’. This volume was initially hoped to be the first books in a series tentatively called ‘The 300 year war”. A new book, “Sentient Spring” is underway as a series on the website ‘Legend of the Half Light’ at http://hmcooper.digitalnovelists.com . This broad banner is intended to include stories that span the current day with a future that stretches over three hundred years.
Why ‘invisible children’? A long time ago I felt that this generation of young people was inheriting a bad deal. I need to emphasize that this is completely different to suggesting that they are a bad generation. They were called Generation X, but they are now the parents of yet another generation, I believe. I called them invisible children because I thought they would elude history through war and depression. You don’t have to posses a lot of insight to have thought that, and there are countless books, novels and articles about it all over the place. At this point, there is another reason why the metaphor of ‘invisible’ may seem appropriate, since we now communicate with ‘invisible’ machines: cell phones, smart phones, email, the internet etc. There is another reason why ‘invisibility’ is important in the story. It is relevant to this generation but is not evident. It is an ability that should not be named here for fear of spoiling the stories.
A number of years ago I asked a Grade 12 English class what they wanted to be when they finished school. Approximately 30 of the 40 or so students said they wanted to be accountants. In my lopsided view, these were individuals who did not wish to have a destiny. Today, approximately 85% of my students want to take Business at university. But ONLY business. They have no second choice and they don’t want any other subjects. They don’t want to take literature, history, social science or humanities courses, for the most part. It’s not that I’m critical of them. I’m critical of US, the ones who could know better. Everyone is scared but everyone is also confident. When I ask grade 12 students to list 5 books they have liked most of them can’t. They haven’t read 5 books in their life.
That’s why they are called ‘invisible children’. Can you imagine a world created by businessmen? We are living in one.
All of these books are being published as ebooks. Print editions may follow. They are all free because I believe if you can take a chance on them, an unknown author, then I can take a chance on you, too. I must confess, I am as invisible as anyone. Hopefully, nature and reality will prove my personal lack of vision strictly a metaphor.
The single title “Daughters of the Teardrop Sea” now includes ‘Book II: Invisible Children’. This volume was initially hoped to be the first books in a series tentatively called ‘The 300 year war”. A new book, “Sentient Spring” is underway as a series on the website ‘Legend of the Half Light’ at http://hmcooper.digitalnovelists.com . This broad banner is intended to include stories that span the current day with a future that stretches over three hundred years.
Why ‘invisible children’? A long time ago I felt that this generation of young people was inheriting a bad deal. I need to emphasize that this is completely different to suggesting that they are a bad generation. They were called Generation X, but they are now the parents of yet another generation, I believe. I called them invisible children because I thought they would elude history through war and depression. You don’t have to posses a lot of insight to have thought that, and there are countless books, novels and articles about it all over the place. At this point, there is another reason why the metaphor of ‘invisible’ may seem appropriate, since we now communicate with ‘invisible’ machines: cell phones, smart phones, email, the internet etc. There is another reason why ‘invisibility’ is important in the story. It is relevant to this generation but is not evident. It is an ability that should not be named here for fear of spoiling the stories.
A number of years ago I asked a Grade 12 English class what they wanted to be when they finished school. Approximately 30 of the 40 or so students said they wanted to be accountants. In my lopsided view, these were individuals who did not wish to have a destiny. Today, approximately 85% of my students want to take Business at university. But ONLY business. They have no second choice and they don’t want any other subjects. They don’t want to take literature, history, social science or humanities courses, for the most part. It’s not that I’m critical of them. I’m critical of US, the ones who could know better. Everyone is scared but everyone is also confident. When I ask grade 12 students to list 5 books they have liked most of them can’t. They haven’t read 5 books in their life.
That’s why they are called ‘invisible children’. Can you imagine a world created by businessmen? We are living in one.
All of these books are being published as ebooks. Print editions may follow. They are all free because I believe if you can take a chance on them, an unknown author, then I can take a chance on you, too. I must confess, I am as invisible as anyone. Hopefully, nature and reality will prove my personal lack of vision strictly a metaphor.
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