Morphin' Orphans

In the movie 'the Orphanage' by Juan Antonio Bayona, childhood is depicted as being somewhere between the pure and innocent standard and the underestimatedly knowledgeable categories. Either they are trying to play with each other, or they are trying reveal deep hidden secrets that the adults are blind to. And maybe that's the magic with children, is that they've not yet experienced so much in life that they are free to see everything while not necessarily noticing everything. This was a key principle that I felt was emulated in the four stories we had read. In the story 'Bottle Caps' by Stuart Dybek, he tries to show that kids see more than meets the eye, by using the bottle caps as little bug graves. In 'Every Little Huricane' by Sherman Alexie, the kid escapes the fierce reality on his Native American reserve by dreaming and imagining everything around him in the form of storms. In  "The Sutton Pie Safe" by Pickney Benedict, the kid does realize everything that's happening around him and shows his distaste by refusing the snake skin belt that his father offered him. These books all show the children as being in a position to see everything in their stories, but they also all show different ways that the children interpret what they see, like in the movie. I think that it is a very accurate representation of what childhood is like, although it does lead me to wonder what the effect would come off as if they were able to completely understand what they notice.