Alex is a 15 year old girl and just started high school. She lives five miles outside of a smaller rural community in Kansas with a little over 16,000 residents. Alex is the oldest child, and has 2 sisters and 1 brother. Growing up, Alex and her siblings came up with their own entertainment and often played school,put on plays, and created homemade music videos with their parents old video camera. Alex fondly remembers all of the handmade costumes her mom made for her and her siblings every Halloween. Alex loves animals, especially dogs, and has a Saint Bernard named Toby. As a child, she thought she wanted to be a veterinarian, but as she's gotten older she's become more interested in her social life and doesn't think cleaning up after cats and dogs all day is the job for her.
Since starting high school, Alex is allowed to drive her mom's old jeep liberty to school everyday. Alex likes school and being social,she is out for volleyball and a member of the yearbook staff. In school, she tends to focus more on socializing and often daydreams or doodles on her notes during class. However, Alex hopes to get a scholarship for college when she graduates, so she tries her best to keep a solid G.P.A. On the weekends Alex attends the football games with her friends, goes to the mall and sometimes the movies, if there's a thriller out you can bet she'll be there. A victim of shopping, she often spends countless hours shopping online for the latest trends at her favorite store, Urban Outfitters. Her parents pay for her phone and gas bill, but her part-time job at Starbucks helps fund her leisure activities.
Alex is creative by nature and enjoys scrap booking, crafts, and DIY projects, she recently re-decorated her bedroom...for the third time this year. Her favorite T.V. shows are Project Runway, What not to Wear, Trading Spaces, and of course, "The Real World." Today, Alex was given her first project in her English 01 class, she has a list of approved books to choose from to write a reflective essay over the symbolism in the story and how it relates to today's society. Not being a big fan of leisure reading, Alex isn't particularly thrilled or motivated to start the assignment.
CONCEPT STATEMENTS: (TO BE IMPROVED..)
1) "Which is better- to have laws and agree, or to hunt & kill?" -Lord of the Flies
Descriptive words: mysterious,dark,/ dazed,chaotic, ominous, fragmented,disoriented,abstract,rough,grungy,handmade,grey,muted, order vs. chaos, good vs. evil, color vs. grey/muted, cut/paste, old movie reels, propaganda,primitive,animals,textured.
2) "Violence is not necessary to destroy civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference of the unique values which created it."
OR
"Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache.... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness. GEORGE ORWELL, Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun
Descriptive Words: grey,sterile,muted,dream-like,empty, ideal, detached, lacking emotion, structured, order vs. chaos, simple, dazed, disoriented,dark,intense...
"Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal."
VICTOR HUGO, Intellectual Autobiography
Descriptive words: good vs. evil, innocence vs. violence, fragmented, pure vs. evil, primitive, dream-like, detached, collection(a.k.a. collage) of images(to hint at recollection/remember), life vs. death, structure/authority vs. freedom,violent
3) Ominous/Naive:
Defintions:
NAIVE:
1. Lacking worldly experience and understanding,especially:2. simple and guileless;artless,a child with a naive charm3.unsuspecting,credulous, showing characterized or lack of sophistication and critical judgement.4.lacking developed powers of analysis,reasoning and criticism 5.another word for primitive.
WORDS THAT EXPRESS NAIVE:
youth,innocent,childish,primitive,simple,lacking
OMINOUS:
1. Menacing; threatening: ominous black clouds; ominous rumblings of discontent.2. Of or being an omen, especially an evil one.
3. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"
WORDS THAT EXPRESS OMINOUS:
dark,empty,evil,sinister,cloudy,forbid,tragic,omen,threaten,savage,emotionless
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