class essay

A: The one quote which I find effective is from the poet and critic John Ciradi said of literature that "it is never only about ideas, but about the experience of ideas" and the first thing we want to know is, naturally, "how was the experience?"    We don't just want to know about the ideas, but where did the ideas come from. What was the experience behind the idea? How did this idea come about? What was the motive behind the idea? We want to be able to feel it, taste it, experience it, understand it, and hear it and more. We want to know the what, where, and why. We want to have that same experience as the person behind the ideas. Tell me more, let me experience what you are experiencing when you came up with the brilliantly idea.
(Pp. 11 the poet ad critic John Ciradi, chapter 1, imaginative writing, the elements of craft, Janet burroway)
B: How we perceived something is far better than how we see something. Don't just fill someone else shoe, but see the world as they do. How does a blind person perceived the world, through touch, through hearing, through taste? How do they interpret the beauty of the world through the sound of laughter, or the sound of a bird? 
    As I watch the video on the prezi site about perception, I could understand the meaning behind it all. As a writer we must open up our world to a whole new level of creativity. To see beyond the images, we must not just see, but have perception of what we see. In the video perception is how three different individuals may interpret a car accident. If saw a black rose growing in the middle of the sidewalk, what would your perception on be. How did the rose get there? Why was it there, did someone plant it, and if so, who planted it, where is that person now.
"Don't just exchange one blindfold for another...Learn how to perceive the world through many lenses, and you will be able to see" (http://prezi.com/aqea8duf6-hn/the-create-8-perceive/?auth_key=e190cda88b38449a21...)

By looking through many different lenses we can have a better perception on the world around. If you saw an old wooden cover bridge, what would your perception be on it? What we see is not what is truly there. The video tells us that our minds shape our perspective on how we see things. For instance how do we see a homeless person on the street? As a writer we don't just put ourselves in a character's shoe, but in their skin. This how we see through another person's eyes. Put you in a foreigner's shoe that as just step foot into this country, no knowledge of the language, of the alphabet, or what the American cult is like. What would your interpretation be? I how would you perceived this through the eyes of another. What we experience in life is how we perceive it, like trusting Santa Claus, but sometimes what we see may not always be what we interpret. ,
Pick an every day easy word...define it... Then define it, has your character would.
Open your eyes through a whole new set of lens.

C: “Normally it was dry, but the weeks of sitting alone unused had stolen its last droplets of moisture. Then, without cleaning off the knife, she loading it up with mustard, adding another layer of color to her dreary bread.“ 
This is a good description of perception, how Amber “BUR” Broyles wrote about her character Dahlia, the perception out perceives the woman in the picture. In the picture we see a young beautiful Asian woman standing in dressing mall wearing a huge jacket and a white, skull, cap. However in Amber’s post she writes has if Dahlia is either poor and starving, or just doesn’t care. I mean she is eating moldy bread and meat. She doesn’t bother cleaning off her knife before dipping it into the mustard jar. But yet in her picture, we see a clean young woman. Is it that looks are deceiving? Is there a dark path that lies behind her? Is there a reason why she doesn’t have any lights on in the house?
(Amber "Bur" Broyles
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hardchessesandyou/5219426347/)
D:  After writing your post about Dahlia, how did you see her as a person just by looking at her picture? Your post goes totally against what the picture shows. Is that you want people to look beyond the character? Do you think others would see her as living like this?