Bobble Head Vader

I enjoyed this writing assignment. It was the closest thing to creative writing with a bit of freedom that the course offered. I chose a sideways writing technique full of humor, and ran with it. In the interests of purpose and audience, I went with showing how assumptions about images could be deceiving, and chose to write it to my classmates so I could keep it informal. In terms of structure and process, it was likely my best work in the class. That’s not really a surprise, though, considering I’m usually all-in on something that I enjoy. I went with only one image for the first few drafts, but realized I ran out of steam. I stalled at three pages, and couldn’t go any further in expanding on my thesis. After re-reading the intro, I had mentioned an optical illusion picture in it that wound up becoming my second image for the essay. It was pretty easy to tie it in as well; my concept was already about assumptions formed when viewing images, so an optical illusion was a perfect fit. All in all I had a blast just describing my main image, which was a picture of my son trying on his Halloween costume. We had a Star Wars themed Halloween, and he was Darth Vader (may favorite character from the films)…or, as the other kids joked, bobble head Vader. Imagine roughly a full sized Vader mask on a four-year-old. At any rate, I got to relive Halloween and finish my assignment all at once. Bonus!