W10-To be a story teller...

-Response to NYPD Inaction over missing black woman by Sean Gardiner

We have still not lived long enough by Tom Griffiths

Serving in Florida by Barbara Ehrenreich

The NYPD Inaction Over a Missing Black Woman Found Dead Sparks a Historic Racial-Bias Lawsuit, by Sean Gardiner, was a stunning and regardful story which reminds me of one of my favourite novel- The Lovely bone by Alice Sebold in 2002. It was a true story of a 13-year-old girl, Susie,who was murdered by her neighbourhood while she was on the way home after school. Unfortunately she was raped, killed and dismembered by the murderer while no one could hear her mourning in the built-up basement space under the corn field. I was fascinated by the author who tried to use Susie’s point of view to describe and to tell the whole story with sense of humour and innocent aspect of a little girl. Both of the NYPD and The Lovely Bone are based on the true background and characters, which intrigues me a lot to some extend. Also, they all got the inspirational writing style which is stimulating while each clues was revealed step by step from the process of investigation. However, these two sufferers in different stories were all abused to death, but it seems to be some different purposes and thoughts of what they are trying to convey. NYPD has pointed out the ignorance of black people’s safety and human rights, while The Lovely Bone is more perceptual to describe a deceased little girl who watches from heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives, pursued for being given back her splendid life that she would never be experienced with her soul haunted around after she died. Definitely, this kind of story would take times to figure out the truth because of the real existence of story, it seems like the writer should be sophisticated and practised while telling the story. 

In contrast,We have still not lived long enough by Tom Griffiths, the idea of using quotes is lightening up the article. By giving the tragedies of bush fires with the grieved for those people who had been mentioned, Griffiths did give the affections toward the article with great sense of sentiment; lead the readers to the emotional approach but neutral sense of educating the scientific information to the readers. In a sense, I thought he was good at organise the stories and gather information concisely with quotes and convey the meanings from every single ones. I mean, I do love the idea about educating meaningfulness in the article with quotes, but somehow it could be the most difficult part of writing, maybe for me, it might sometimes be hard to please usual readers.

I found the article Serving in Florida by Barbara Ehrenreich, is an entertaining and amiable piece. It’s quite cordial and actually it’s just like reading a diary of a friend. It reminds me of the first foreign novel I’ve read The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank in 1944. It is a book written as the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944 and Anne Frank ultimately died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. After the war, the diary was retrieved by Anne's father, Otto Frank, the only known survivor of the family. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the article and was willing to get know more about the new life of this young lady in Florida, but I did lose patient to finish the whole article at times. I would say that I did enjoy experiencing different people’s life with various perceptions, but maybe because the plot and the way of telling stories was not that intensive and attractive to me which made me loose the concentration for a while.

Well, for my feature story, I’m struggling to write a story with both news point and sense of perception from different perspectives, try hard to avoid being too rational directions with the issue of “interracial marriage,” I would rather focus on the emotional aspects that my interviewee has revealed between the words during the conversation and make these 3 different stories gathered to relate the possible news point. It is a great challenge for me indeed, because most of my writing so for are mainly about presenting facts. Therefore, I really appreciate to make my story alive as the readers could almost feel like they were one of the characters in the story or experience the scene of my stories vividly as possible as they could. I am kind of person who really enjoys listening to people and love different life experiences, sometimes, I am too emotional to be a good story teller, so I will try to express my interviewees’ point of view fairly and squarely even I love to listen to them, interact with them much more rather than write it up with my pen!