Amelie Childhood

Some aspects of Amelies childhood were very similar to every child's:

• Every child has that phase where they put hula hops on each finger and eat them off, one by one. Amelie does the same but instead of using hula hops she uses strawberries.
• Also the magic hand trick (finger on each side).
• The upside down face, using your chin as a face by drawing eyes, eyebrows, nose and eyelashes.
• Squeezing your face into a window so that the people can see you pulling a weird face.
• Using cherries as earrings. 
• Laying out a path of dominions and knocking one down and watch the rest fall with it.
• Using different variation of props e.g. trying on glasses.
• Drawing a face on your thumb and finger and creating a face.
• Making sound using crystal glasses.
• Drinking from a straw.
• Making Paper strips of men and women.
• Blowing into a leaf and creating a high pitched sound.
• Putting PVA glue on your fingers, and peeling the glue off.
• Flicking a penny and watching it spin.
• Having a coil of ribbon all neat in a circle, and blowing it to make it unfold and create a pattern.

Due to her heart problems she has to be creative on her own and not interact with any other children as she is home schooled, this is all lead due to her wanting to interact with her dad, and when she does(every month, check up) her heart beats fast which makes the father think that Amelie has a heart problem, she does other thing to entertain her such as:

• Amelie plays doctors with an imaginary alligator, just like her father does to her(check up).
• Sees her fish as a friend, due to no friends. 
• Fish attempts to commit suicide due to home environment, due to this they put him in a lake. Amelies imaginations create a scene in which the fish looks at her for a second then swims away, just as if he's saying goodbye. 
• Amelie is given a second hand camera at a  young age which illustrates the trust Amelie has with her parents. Amelie goes out and takes pictures of the sky, but it isn't no ordinary sky. It's clouds shaped like rabbits and teddies bears.Whilst she is taking a photo of the teddy bear shaped cloud a car crash happens in front of her and a neighbour fools her into thinking she caused the accident with her camera. This put Amelie into shock due to her actions, she watches the TV and everything that is on the TV is about accidents such as fire, two deraliments and a jumbo jet crash. As she has been taking photos all day she thinks she caused all of them incidents.
• She figures out that her neighbour fooled her and for her revenge she sits on this roof and pulls the antenna plug whilst the football gets into the good bits(goal scoring). She repetitively does this through the game and this makes the neighbour insane.
• Amelie goes to church with mother, lights a candle to pray for baby brother. They leave the church and  a tourist on top of the church is committing suicide and lands on top of Amelies mum in which leading her to die in front of Amelie.
• Amelie swings her teddy on the swing, where as its usually the parents swinging the child.
• Due to the tragedy Amelie forgets about leaving her teddy outside and it stays outside through sun,rain and snow(through all the seasons).