Sunday, September 7, 2008

Slice a new form of literature?

In a narrative book the audience has the option to finish the story when ever they want to. Also the audience is forced to imagine the objects and setting on there own. Slice shows a new modern way of telling a story. This modernized form of story telling is unlike any other types of literature that have ever been available. This blog is a hybrid of many different forms of literature making a new modern way to tell a story.
Slice is a mixture between the type of literature that a book uses purely based on the fact that it is written, but it is almost easier to compare to a television series. In a T.V. show the audience has to wait until next week to see what happens in the story. In Slice the readers have to wait until the author posts again to see what happens next. Also the obvious similarity between Slice and a Television series is that slice shows images, unlike a book in that the reader has to imagine all the things described. In Slice the reader can still dissect major themes in the story similarly to that of a book. The thing that Slice does differently in this aspect of dissecting a story, is that Slice also uses visuals as symbols along with the text. For example when Slice is talking about the Diary that she found a picture is also shown that has a drawing of a hare on it. This drawing is a major motif in the story because the death of the family that lived in the house before slice, was caused by a hare running in front of the families car. The way that slice gives the setting and tone of the story is also radically different then a narrative book. Instead of revealing her mood through the style of writing the girl in slice just tells the audience with a mood indicator at the bottom of each post. Also the way that the writer conveys the setting and her feelings on the setting is through a link to Google maps. For instance the writer named the place she was on Google maps hell allowing the reader to infer the writer's feelings on the setting. This blog reveals the same things as a book would but in a more modern since and allows the reader to truly feel what the writer is feeling.
Finally the main difference between a book or a T.V. show and Slice is that slice relates to the reader in a very real since. By posting as if the story was actually happening it helps the reader to feel as if the story is real. By making the reader feel that the story is real it helps the reader understand, relate, and enthrall them selves in Slice. There is even another blog posted that is done by slice's parents helping the reader get a truly real since of the story and see all sides of what is going on in the story. This hybrid of litterateurs creates a literature all to it self showing that there are many different methods to telling a story.

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