"What loneliness is more
lonely than distrust?"
-- George Eliot
1. Write a one page description
of something or someone a child is suspicious of. Be sure to write it in
the first person and to stick to child's point of view. Let the child give
authority to the story: speaking with certainty, many details and facts,
authentic child vocabulary.
2. Write a scene in which
a suspicious character sets a trap for another character. Be as imaginitve
as you can. For example, how would one lover who suspects another lover
of cheating try to catch him/her?
3. Write a paragraph
in the first person in which a character describes that same feeling of
suspicion as in no. 2. Why is the character suspicious in the first place?
What does it feel like? How does the character act on their emotions? Be
sure not to resolve the feeling.
4. What makes a person
suspicious? What is needed to arouse suspicion? Create a list.