{"id":453,"date":"2020-03-10T18:59:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T18:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KateA\/?page_id=453"},"modified":"2020-04-03T21:58:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T21:58:37","slug":"narrative-visual-perspective-in-english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~KateA\/narrative-visual-perspective-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative Visual Perspective in English"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listener Lyric\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In English, we read a book called “Citizen”, and then had to create a piece similar to this. “Citizen” by Claudia Rankine is a more poetic type of format and explores issues in society around racism in a very powerful way. We had to choose a person to interview about a profound story and turn this into our own lyrical essay.<\/p>\n

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Lyrical Essay by Kate Ahrens<\/strong><\/p>\n

Buzzing. Constant buzzing, like a whole beehive has taken home in your brain. It\u2019s exhausting. It\u2019s a burden. The noise feels like a weight that drags you down the whole day. No one else hears it but you. Why is everything so complex? Nothing\u2019s ever straightforward anymore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot of days it\u2019s so loud that you don\u2019t even want to get up. Trying to get your head off the pillow and your feet off the ground shouldn\u2019t be so hard. You often sleep in or stay at home. Sometimes you just can\u2019t quite start the day.<\/span><\/p>\n

One day you muster the strength. It feels like lifting three times your body weight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019re sitting in math class. It\u2019s your freshman year and you\u2019re trying to pay attention, but you can\u2019t. You keep trying to pull yourself towards solving equations, towards focus, but your mind jerks you in the opposite direction. You feel yourself spiralling deep into a pool of negative thoughts, the noise reminding you that you are useless and you don\u2019t deserve to be here. You fail your next quiz.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You go home to watch television and you see a character who is supposed to be just like you. Why is it so obvious? If people think you all look the same, how will we ever know who really needs help? How are people going to notice a smiley, bright person like you, when they only have a glimpse of a distorted image in their heads of what you\u2019re supposed to look like?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You are really close with one girl. She\u2019s like a sister to you. She\u2019s the person who\u2019s there when no one else is. You do everything together, but you can tell you are starting to weigh her down. She can\u2019t take the pressure of how you feel anymore. She can\u2019t always be there for you because she has a life of her own as well, which you understand. And you grow apart, because <\/span>your <\/span><\/i>struggles were too much for<\/span> her<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

So you talk about it. It takes a while, but you find someone you trust and you tell them everything. Sometimes you can\u2019t talk and so you paint instead, visually describing your mind to the person sitting in front of you. You used to dread your appointments but now you actually look forward to them. You\u2019re getting better.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s taken a while for you to understand that you are worthy, just like everyone else. When you hear the buzzing starting to come back in the back of your brain, you tell it that you don\u2019t deserve any less than the person sitting next to you. You\u2019re not fully there yet, but you\u2019re starting to learn what it all means. And so when someone else tells you that they are struggling, you tell them that you know it\u2019s cheesy, but it gets better. That if you can get through this dark month or year \u2013 or however long it is \u2013 there are really good things coming for you. Tell someone. Believe in yourself. It gets better. That\u2019s a promise.<\/span><\/p>\n

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