Category: Student Posts 31

This scene is from the movie “Monster” (怪物) by Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda. The original scene is two protagonists sitting in an abandoned train facing each other playing the game of guessing the word on the card they hold by asking question. I couldn’t recreate the abandoned train from the props I have, so I […]

Read my Literary Narrative Part 3 Here Converting my literacy narrative into a comic and back into a literary narrative was an eye-opening experience. Returning to the alphabetic version after this exercise felt like stepping into a new creative space, armed with insights I gained through drawing. Distilling my narrative into frames taught me to […]

Dusting off its cover, my father hands me a tightly bound book. Its cold, Soviet-industrial print spelled out three bold Chinese characters: 红宝书, Mao’s Little Red Book. I knew instantly what it was—a relic of my hometown Beijing’s history and a symbol of resilience. For generations, this book rallied the Chinese through war and chaos. […]

Before creating the comic, my original draft was unorganized and difficult to understand. It started off strong but towards the end it was difficult to understand what I was trying to say. I could not find the words to convey the message I wanted my audience to get. However, after creating the comic I got […]

I feel like this activity really helped me to understand my audience when I’m writing. Going from turning my pros into a comic, I had to really consider how someone who doesn’t know my story would interpret the images I was creating. This then leads me to realize that I do in fact need to […]

I often have a tendency to overwrite, which was evident in the first draft of my literacy narrative. After our meeting, I made prompt revisions to my original draft (which is why there aren’t many edits visible in the final version) before starting the comic. During the comic creation process, it was interesting to consider […]

Looking back on everything I’ve done for this literacy narrative project, I have undoubtedly worked towards many of this course’s learning outcomes. The first that comes to mind for me is understanding learning as a process. For the first and third parts of this project, I spent much more time revising and drafting than I […]

The drawing component of this assignment made the process more enjoyable and helped clarify the message of my initial draft. Adding a visual representation to my alphabetical narrative helped me identify the most essential parts of my story and recognize which elements were unnecessary.  Although the comic has fewer words than the initial narrative, it […]