Critiques

Marissa Tong - She has a very, very pretty watercolor painting. She says that it was all on a whim, but my personal interpretation is that the road symbolizes Jack's journey throughout the novel, the fire represents his past, and the lips and alcohol bottle are obviously events in the novel. She later explained that the brown blob in the corner is a walnut, but I digress.

Ashley Rockwell - Her collage accurately represents Jack's life, not only by portraying events with imagery, but through the arrangement of the pictures on the poster; they are scattered, which to me represents how hectic and confusing Jack's childhood was. Also, I think that use of phrases combined with the imagery was a great idea and that it adds depth to the collage.

Matt Reiss - Matt also made a collage, but unlike Ashley's, his was arranged on a computer. That is not to say that it isn't a great collage; it is a wonderful work. Although he used common images from the movie, they were altered and arranged in a way that brought more meaning to them. For example, he took the portrait of jack, enlarged it and set it next to a large American flag, so that it covers half his face, which gives it a more serious tone. It gives it a sense of drama.

Graphic Novel Choice

I choose you, Maus-kachu!

The Hazy Line Between Fact and Fiction

If asked where a writer may draw the line between fact and fiction, I would reply, "Anywhere they want to." It is not only their right to draw that line, but to cross it as well. In This Boy's Life, Tobias sets a sort of standard of impartiality by revealing every side of his changing personality during the most influential years in his life, his childhood. Still, the validity of his claims is irrelevant to this metamorphosis, because it does not affect the impact of the events on the author, but rather it affects the impact of the events on the reader. Readers may not take the author's story as seriously if they find out that much the story is a fallacy, but if the author's goal is truly self expression, then it should not matter.

CROSSWORDDDDDDD

Across
2) treacle
4) timbre
6) strident
9) implacable
13) docile
15) furtive
16) novice
18) bellicose
19) nuance

Down
1) Grovel
3) conjure
5) curtly
6) scabrous
7) abjection
8) sepulchral
10) pretentious
11) ludicrous
14) reverie
17) coy