{"id":54,"date":"2018-10-03T17:13:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T17:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiaP\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2019-02-05T03:57:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T03:57:41","slug":"narrative-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~MiaP\/narrative-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Narrative Project\u00a0<\/strong>asks Seniors,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“How well can you tell a dialogue-driven story?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By exploring various narrative points of view and experimenting with dialogue in their story writing, I learned to develop more advanced storytelling techniques through screenplays, films, lyrical essays, trailers, and websites. For this project I used Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe After Effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lyrical Essay<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You scroll through your instagram feed. Another post: \u201cBored of school, I want to quit\u201d. Lucky, you say as you forget the feeling of walking those bustling hallways and listening to music as piles of homework sit on standby. You long for little things kicked to the dust by your friends. The sighs that previously described pain now become emulate a distant adrenaline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is pride without something to be prideful of?
\nYour mismatched colors become a bad sense of fashion rather than a spirited assembly.
\nNo rivalry games or school dances.
\nInstead, you lie alone in the hospital bed,
\nGasping for a strength that\u2019s accessible now only through prescriptions.
\nYour jean skirts and graphic tees regulated to the rag pile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But did you forget? Along with school and field hockey team, you\u2019ve been stripped of hair. You never fully realized the beauty in combing through each strand of your own,
\nuntil it\u2019s gone, and not to charity, for it has slowly fallen away as if detaching from your existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your hair is not meant for you, you say.
\nBut if yours is not meant for you, who\u2019s is?
\nPiles of wigs tangle in the corner, while the blonde locks in the window flow in the summer breeze. But the worst part is that the privilege of returning to school after months of chemo-caused weakness disintegrated as you were then faced with the curious eyes that all seemed to point at
\nYou,
\nYour naked head,
\nYour naked face,
\nYou. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The falsely insecure always remain invisible, but not you.
\nYou wonder if the drugs rearranged your brain to make you think no one is on your side.
\nYou start wearing hoodies to school, wondering if you\u2019ll feel like you again.
\nAnd what is it you want to be? They ask.
\nLike everybody else. You say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the diagnosis, you were close. But never as close as you were once you were admitted to the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can I come back again next week to see you? She says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You thought she was a true friend, until one day, it stopped. Like the hair off your body she dropped you. I guess she reached her participation requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You walk into class and the teacher asks for your assignment.
\nThe student in front of you receives a scolding, two questions, and an F.
\nBut then he walks up to your face, looks into your eyes and says,
\n\u201cDon\u2019t worry, you don\u2019t have to do this assignment.\u201d
\nHe smiles and walks away.
\nYou wonder if this was an attempt at empathy or just protocol.
\nYet you still long, are longing for, normality, even mediocrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You think it\u2019s all over until it\u2019s not. Back to the hospital bed, Round 2. The doctors say it shouldn\u2019t be as bad this time around, but that doesn\u2019t matter.
\nYou are still being visited by a past that you thought you\u2019d slaughtered entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019re still tired,
\nYou\u2019re still hurting,
\nBut one thing makes up for it.
\nAfter losing so much of yourself there\u2019s nowhere else to go except to those around you.
\nYou spend most of your time with those who make you forget you\u2019re sick,
\nBut make you remember that you\u2019re more than normal.
\nLate nights out running around in the rain,
\nLaughter blossoms with the change in seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But who are you to dismiss your invincible strength?
\nYou moved mountains.
\nYou\u2019re not normal.
\nYou\u2019re strong and brave and that will always be your identity over everything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So you keep fighting, but you still cry. But this time, it\u2019s not about being sick, it\u2019s about schoolwork, and boys, and drama.
\nThis is who you are.
\nYou breathe out old worries and breathe in a new you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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