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120 The Idea of an Essay: Volume 3 road. What they are not thinking about is that creative writing will actually help foster a lifelong love of learning for kids. If kids fall in love with creative writing at a young age and then find different ways to integrate it into different subjects as they learn in elementary up through college levels, then there will be so many more people who all have a more positive attitude towards education as a whole. Clearly the counterargument has a very strong voice in the world but does not overcome the evidence in favor of creative writing. The movie theatre lights come up as the audience claps its approval. They may change a lot of things between what the book says and what the movie shows, but they were smart enough to know that Katniss has and will continue to overcome the oppressive government of Panem. In the same way, parents and educators should continue the fight to push a love for creative writing for young children despite the sometimes-negative attitudes toward it. Though it may seem bleak, things are beginning to change; so find creative ways to use creative writing and “May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor.” Works Cited Bailey, Robeson. “Creative Writing and the Undergraduate.” College English 12.3 (1950): 153-58. JSTOR. Web. Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games . New York: Scholastic, 2008. Print. Composition Course Survey. 14 Nov. 2014. 2014 Fall ENG 1400 Composition Moodle Page. Dell, William. “Creative Writing in the English Classroom.” The English Journal 53.7 (1964): 500-03. JSTOR. Web. Forsythe, Richard. “Attitudes toward Creative Writing.” The Clearing House 35.4 (1960): 223-25. JSTOR. Web. Hesse, Douglas. “The Place of Creative Writing in Composition Studies.” College Composition and Communication 62.1 (2010): 31-52. JSTOR. Web. Kinnick, B. “Creative Writing.” The English Journal 46.2 (1957): 86- 88. JSTOR. Web. McFarland, Ron. “An Apologia for CreativeWriting.” College English 55.1 (1993): 28-45. JSTOR. Web. Tate, Allen. “What Is Creative Writing?” Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature 5.3 (1964): 181-84. JSTOR. Web. Zeki, S. “ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Artistic Creativity and the Brain.” Science (2001): 51-52. JSTOR. Web.