INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE: MECHANICS OF STORY

WK 3: Story Element - Character

9/11/2013

Shifting gears from story models to story elements as we will do every other week (mostly), here is "Element Presentation: Character" for you to discuss here. want more Dog River? Check out cornergas.com

ChArAcTeR on Prezi

Also if you desire some reinforcement, here is Holt Rineheart and Winston Publishers' "How to make a Character" ppt for aspiring writers that can be downloaded HERE for those of you needing some leveling, concept reinforcement, and examples of the modalities of character building. It has a clever little interactive element that I like.

Someone asked me once why the D1 is so "short and easy". Here's an interesting article for you to read about "Teaching to the TEXT" that will clear it up: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/opinion/20selsberg.html?_r=2

A heads up: Pitch your D3 idea to me via email when you have it even if we have talked about it, so we can begin conversing about the details of your plan. This "pitch" is not technically due for a few weeks, but start now and you won't regret it!

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Ariana Berdy

9/11/2013 06:42:16 pm

To answer the question that we had in class, at the end of Frankenstein (the book version) the monster DOES kill itself. He tells Walton:

"Fear not that I shall be the instrument of future mischief. My work is nearly complete. Neither yours nor any man's death is needed to consummate the series of my being, and accomplish that which must be done; but it requires my own. Do not think that I shall be slow to perform this sacrifice. I shall quit your vessel on the iceraft which brought me thither, and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe; I shall collect my funeral pile and consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its remains may afford no light to any curious and unhallowed wretch who would create such another as I have been. I shall die. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me, or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched. He is dead who called me into being; and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish. I shall no longer see the sun or stars, or feel the winds play on my cheeks. Light, feeling, and sense will pass away; and in this condition must I find my happiness. Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer, and heard the rustling of the leaves and the warbling of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation. Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?"
http://www.literature.org/authors/shelley-mary/frankenstein/chapter-24.html

betsy berger

9/18/2013 12:19:32 pm

Just came from a lecture by Eric Metaxas who wrote a book about Bonhoeffer and 7 Great Men which goes into why these men are great according to his formula, they were people like George Washington, Wilbur Force, Chuck Colson, and several others. The model follows the mono myth even in real life

WK 3: Story Element - Character

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