In today’s class, when we did the exercise on visualizing the passages, I really wasn’t sure going in what we would really get out of it. I mean, how different can people really see things?
Boy was I surprised!
Looking back, I have to say (quite sheepishly) that going in to the exercise I hadn’t really thought about the different ways that people “see” things they read. As a rabid reader and aspiring author, this was really rather remise of me. What was so interesting about today’s exercise was that, going into the ‘writing’ part, I had made an assumption about everyone’s interpretations without even really thinking of what my own interpretation was. It took me a minute to think about what I was really assuming before I could write, and in that I think I learned the most. The visual I had of Sam and Buddy from excerpt 3, without being necessarily concrete, was nevertheless so fully formed that I hadn’t even thought about it. I just subconsciously pictured what my conscious mind was reading without even considering the associations I was making. What was surprising to me was just how different everyone’s interpretation was. They were not just a little-bit different either (which I had expected), but a whole lot different. My personal interpretation was so ingrained into how I read the passage, without even realizing it, that to hear everyone else’s interpretations was really startling and quite cool.
On a slightly unrelated note, that last exercise (the one about writing from the perspective of a peasant transported out of his time) was really cool and would make a fun next-assignment (hint hint). ^_-
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