Friday, November 12, 2010

Symbolic Story Representation

Preparing my own:

Pick a scene from my book: The explosion scene on pages 281 through 297.  (I won't include all of it.  I'll leave out things that would be spoilers, and I'll cut down the pages I include.)

Plan what I'll use as symbols for setting, characters, props:
cylindrical canister  covered in black paper for "The Pore"
rolled black paper for the tunnels
black paper for the floor of the cavern

cut or torn figures for the characters 

a symbol to represent me as a reader
Will
Chester
girl 1  -- pigtails
girl 2 -- pigtails
Elliott  -- on stretcher
Martha
Will's Dad
Limiters - 2
a Bright (could use one to portray two of them, or make two and tear up one)
cat Bartleby

crossbow
rifle

rifle -- white hair
spears