An essay written by an elementary school student for homework has become a hot topic on Twitter, with comments such as “interesting” and “great piece of writing filled with talent.” It is a story about an eraser written as a homework assignment to make a short story “Short Short”. The impressed father introduced it on Twitter and it attracted a lot of attention.
On November 29, 2022, J-CAST News interviewed his father, nakashin (@Fill_no_bass), who introduced the composition, about the writing background.
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Writing by elementary school students is becoming a hot topic
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written by nakashin’s daughter
“I have a variety of bun shellfish shops.”
Nakashin is serializing parenting manga “Our house is invaded by small creatures” on the Internet media “Da Vinci Web”. I have a 4th grade daughter and a 2-year-old son, and since my daughter is 2, I have been drawing children’s cartoons as a diary. My main job is an employee of a design company, and I draw manga as a side job.
The subject this time was my daughter’s composition. In response to the interview, nakashin introduced his daughter, “My hobby is drawing, and if I have time, I draw game characters.”
On November 26th, I submitted an essay written by my daughter on Twitter. The theme is “rubber poppies that remember words”. From the beginning, the sentences covered with typos continue. The main character and narrator is “an eraser who remembers words.” Corrections are spelled out in the margin. Here is the full text.
“I am Keji.com who speaks words.
I’m looking for a variety of bun-shell shops. I will get rid of it tomorrow.
So, first of all, look at me in class.
Well, you are all wrong. As it is a word, I am only given wrong words. (“Leaves” in the composition are bamboo crowns, not grass crowns.)
After correcting the spelling, the following sentence becomes.
“I’m a rubber poppy who can learn words.
It is popular with various stationery shops. I’m getting used to it.
And everyone in my class uses me.
But since everyone uses the wrong words, I can only remember the wrong words. “
Erasers that memorize words have been useful in erasing words that people make mistakes. That’s why he says, “I can only remember the wrong words.”
In response to this composition, there were some surprised voices on Twitter, such as “It’s amazing that even the misspelling was inserted into the story.”
What advice did nakashin give his daughter who was worried about her homework?
In an interview, nakashin revealed that his daughter consulted him about his homework. She said she wanted to use an eraser that remembers words beforehand, and was worried about what kind of story she should illustrate. Nakashin gave his daughter just one piece of advice.
“It looks very interesting, so why don’t you think about how that eraser usually spends his time and then come up with a story?”
Then, from an eraser’s point of view, the girl began to think, “How do you learn words, what do you usually do, and what do you think?” “the eraser will remember the wrong words”, and for that reason “the words used will also be wrong words”.
Nakashin commented on his daughter’s makeup as follows.
“I think the real pleasure of short stories is that once you’ve read them you’ll want to read them again. I thought it was short, and I felt that was its charm.”
However, the homework this time was to read aloud in front of everyone in the class. It is said that her daughter submitted another composition because it was difficult to convey the appeal of the story when reading it aloud. Mr. nakashin looked back, “It’s too wasteful, so at least I published it on SNS.”
As of 19:00 on the 30th, nakashin’s tweet introducing his daughter’s makeup had more than 65,000 retweets and more than 289,000 “likes.” Mr. nakashin receives this response as follows.
“At first I only posted it as a memorial service, so I didn’t expect it to become such a hot topic… I was very surprised. The topic spread unexpectedly about my child, but everyone gave me lots of kind comments, so I was relieved.”
(Kyoko Takigawa, J-CAST News Editorial Department)
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