Los arboles mueren de pie

"The trees die standing up"

This is a book written by Alejandro Casona. He is a Spanish author. The book is adapted to a theater production and it is very popular in LatinAmerica.
The story is divided in three acts. The synopsis is that Dr. Ariel  is the owner and founder of an institution that want to help desperate people who lack of luck and faith. One day a couple of grandparents come looking for his grandson who is dead but the grandmother still gets emails from him.

I don't want to give any spoilers on this book. And I think it is worth reading. I don't usually read theater, I rather go to see it but the way this is written down is brilliant!! as a reader you get into the plot that you forget it is a play.

Newsworld Assignment

1. Are there any prominent symbols in the story that you read? if so what are they and how are they used?

Personally I feel that there is an abstraction of the symbol of fear. We see that the attack of the airplanes just happened in NYC. and that this group of teenagers are trying to understand what is happening and that they are trying to be brave and go out and explore the theme park but that in the bottom of their hearts they are feeling confused and they don't know how to process all the information that is going on in the world.
Another symbol is the candle that Mason, a religious boy removed from his jacket pocket. This symbolizes faith and hope in a hard place.

2. What connections do you make with the story? Discuss the elements of the work with which you you were able to connect. 

I feel I am connected to the story in the fact that I didn't know what to do with the information of the airplanes hitting the towers that day. The news travel all the way to my country and I remember being in school and the teachers commenting about it but since it wasn't our country we didn't know exactly what to do with the information. At the end of course there was sadness because many life were lost in the event and it is always sad when there is a terrorist attack like this one.

3. What changes would you make to adapt this story into other medium? What medium would you use and what changes would you make? 

I think this piece of narrative can be adapted into a movie or a short film. If it is a movie, then there has to be more story into it. We need to have a backstory of the narrator, who is the main character and also we need to see more of a struggle inside the park and what happens after the guards find them. Right now, the piece feels incomplete lie if it is part of a book and we only have some of the pages, at the end I was asking myself now what? what happens to them? It would be interesting to see what happens, if the law is stronger after the attack or if the law is more concentrated in the terrorist attack that they are not paying attention to a group of teenagers who are being risky and not following rules.

ASTERIOS POLYP

What is multimodal? multimodal is characterized by several different modes of activity or currency.

ASTERIOS POLYP

Many of us who enjoy reading and comics and movies find in graphic novel a fun way to entertain ourselves and read stories,

This particular one tells a story of an ordinary man but that has many talents. We see he is architect, teacher, womanizer, architect. All of this help him to live a life in NYC, the city that never sleeps. But what happens when all of this life gets taken away from him? thats where the real struggle begins. Its a little bit tricky the way this novel is written because it goes back and forth between the past and present, this might be because the author wants to represent what the main character is feeling. He is living in the present but he likes his past life and how the imagination plays a big role in his life.

What really caught my opinion of this, is not the story but the artwork. its very stylized and the colors they used its magenta and cyan. Its brilliant the way they play around with the colors and how they use the human figure.
I feel that for a graphic novel is very important to have a specific artwork and this definitely has its own style.

Exercise in class

This picture describes Donald Trump's personality very well and it makes you question about his ability to be a good leader.
He is constantly talking to insult people and to scream without thinking what he is talking about.
I think that physiologically this image causes to the people a negative image about this candidate because who wants to have a crazy angry person as his president?
I don't vote in America but I if I could I would expect to vote for someone who control his emotion and what he says in public and is open to bring everyone together and try to have peace in the country.

Additional Chapter

RE:  THE MOMENT YOU RAN AWAY.

I will be honest, I didn't think you had it in you to ignore me and ran away, breaking everything in my house. I told you don't break anything remember? specially all the picture frames I had on the white table. Don't you like our pictures? I thought we did hired a good photographer for the one in the red picture frame....
Anyways, by running away you complicated things a little bit. Specially because I have to delay my plan on conquer the Earth, since I don't have you in my team anymore....
Its funny how you found me a few days ago.... and now is my time to find you. For your own good I hope you are good hiding your tracks; because if not, then Ill see you real soon.

Observation Example

Outside the Academic Center, there are many tables and chairs. Each chair is same style and color. They are arranged in different positions and each one has its own rhythm.
The cool thing about this is that each chair and table has a meaning and a purpose....
They are each for someone to sit down.

A past dream to make it a Film

The main character is standing in a big plaza looking for someone specific: a friend.
In the same plaza but at another time of the day there is that second friend buying a bracelet.
After buying the bracelet this second friend starts walking towards a garden.

Meanwhile we go back to the first person she is still standing in the plaza waiting for her friend.She starts walking and passes the bracelets stand and keeps walking towards the garden.

There is a montage of both persons walking but none of them are walking together yet. The montage keeps speeding up and at a point both persons are walking holding hands one next to the other.

The second friend gives the bracelet as a present to the first one. The first person smiles and puts it on but it is now back in the plaza by herself.

She smiles and keeps the bracelet on, remembering the day that she and her friend had a nice walk in the garden, laughing and enjoying the beautiful nature and landscape that God created.