The narrative for my story that follows a person’s journey through the sky, the sea, and the land; begins in a deserted land from the ground up. The person would take the shape of a balloon, which is a dead shape until you breathe life into it, which is what a person’s soul endures.
The free spirited balloon would soar high into the sky, overlooking the buildings that populate our world, it would pass through the beautiful architecture of the old world and then it would hit the populated city. With the big cities being polluted and overcrowded with noise, and people and traffic and city life and lights, the balloon finds itself drifting away from the noise and into the vastness of the clear calm blue ocean.
Suddenly, it encounters danger and trouble. The balloon is then dragged into the underwater ocean, full of color and vibrancy and life. It wanders into the depths of this kingdom where human have not destroyed yet, where underwater creatures have created their own town and rules and system of life.
It then escapes ,refreshed, and sails up to the sky, where it passes the beauty of the white clouds and keeps heading further up where it meets the stars and the moon. As it comes closer to the lightness of the moon, it gets caught in its crescent shape. Finally, it diffuses into a bright star and finds its place amongst the other balloons that have sailed and journeyed high and became symbols of achievement.
This narrative follows the creation of a person and their journey in life as they grow and explore and their transformation at the end into an everlasting shinning star.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Article Review
Reference:
Database BHI: British Humanities Index
Title Always stray from the path.
Author Dugan, Emily
Source Independent on Sunday, suppl. Review, pp. 32-33, 16 Aug 2009
ISSN 0958-1723
Review:
In this article, the writer, Emily Dugan, discusses the writer and a book on exploration. This opens up the possibilities in my idea. The fact that the author re-describes his explorations and his following through other people’s footsteps shows his interest in reviving history in his head and creating an encyclopaedia of exploration fore the rest of the world. What I particularly like about the article is that it summarizes the author’s intention and the parts where he went. With key recollections from the trip, it indicates the importance of journey in a person’s life and how important first hand experience is in building ones knowledge. The fact that she ends with the quote on Google earth and that there is no need to travel and explore when you can visit the place with a click of a mouse, relates to the fact that everything is computer related nowadays, and technology is forming the center of our lives more and more; leaving us with no sense of adventure or action. In conclusion, this diminishes our need for physical journey but gives us a chance to embark on a journey with no limitations.
Database BHI: British Humanities Index
Title Always stray from the path.
Author Dugan, Emily
Source Independent on Sunday, suppl. Review, pp. 32-33, 16 Aug 2009
ISSN 0958-1723
Review:
In this article, the writer, Emily Dugan, discusses the writer and a book on exploration. This opens up the possibilities in my idea. The fact that the author re-describes his explorations and his following through other people’s footsteps shows his interest in reviving history in his head and creating an encyclopaedia of exploration fore the rest of the world. What I particularly like about the article is that it summarizes the author’s intention and the parts where he went. With key recollections from the trip, it indicates the importance of journey in a person’s life and how important first hand experience is in building ones knowledge. The fact that she ends with the quote on Google earth and that there is no need to travel and explore when you can visit the place with a click of a mouse, relates to the fact that everything is computer related nowadays, and technology is forming the center of our lives more and more; leaving us with no sense of adventure or action. In conclusion, this diminishes our need for physical journey but gives us a chance to embark on a journey with no limitations.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
150 words (Assignment 3 initial concepts)
Plan A:
Every person comes into the world with a free spirit and a sense of adventure and a need for knowledge. We all, at some point, have wished to be a bird to fly around the world and fly through the skies, or a fish, to immerse ourselves in the colourful world of the underwater, or Spiderman to jump from the tallest building to the next. I would like to portray this feeling in accompanying a persons soul in a journey across the world, from starting from the ground and flying though the cities to being captured into the ocean and then let go to soar high into the skies to reach the sky and the moon. My journey would be one of my own dreams, in the form of a balloon, which gets inflated with energy and emotion and journeys throughout the world from the ground to the sea to the skies.
Plan B:
The world we live in at the moment is consumed with wars, hunger, polluting, and climate change. All living beings are affected by this drastic change in climate and the constant heat or constant floods. Yet being humans, we are able to defend our territory and develop means to try to slow down this effect. As for living creatures from animals to plants, they are subject to our choices. I am interested in the life under the sea, and how these creatures that do not share with us the same land are affected by our devastating choices and are unable to escape. I would like to create a world of color and travel from the warm places to the cold ones. This peaceful world is inevitably interrupted by man’s need to develop and occupy other territories, destroying peaceful and essential life to create his own.
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