Tuesday, January 17, 2012

THINK LIKE A WRITER: SOME HELP FROM FICTION NOTES ABOUT METAPHOR!

FICTION NOTES! Make An Image Become A Symbol


"You want to think about the objects in your story, something concrete, some object you can see or touch or hold. Now you’ll work to add an emotional attachment to that object.

 One student wrote an essay about her high school basketball career, how that sport, that team, that basketball court was her life. On the night of her last game of her senior, she walked out of the locker room and her Dad threw her a basketball. She caught it and held it cupped in both hands, a brown globe, a world that had consumed her last four years.


 Suddenly that circular shape of the ball becomes a globe, a world that represents much more than just a pebbly brown ball that bounces. It held all her high school memories and it was a poignant moment."
-Darcy Pattison

BASKETBALL IS LIFE.


"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." -Michael Jordan

1 comment:

  1. This quote is saying that once you fail your determine to suceed so you give your all and try to become better because you are learning from your mistakes. & you become successful from failing.

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