Writing my response to Emily Dickinson's poem "Tell All the Truth"in crayon brought me back to when I was younger and your imagination could go wild. I cheated at first by writing an outline with a different paper and pencil instead of writing it in crayon first, but even with the outline I started to change my way of thinking when I started to write my response in crayon.
If a culture only had crayons as their writing implements I think that their culture would be more creative then ours. Being a mass media major I learned in my classes that in films and television shows the background music is the director telling us what to feel at that time. The dialogue in the movie and the actor's reaction to events is showing us what the character is feeling but the music helps us FEEL what the character is feeling, so that the movie because more real to us. This way when the character goes through a break up we are going through a break up or when a character is frightened we are frightened.
The crayons are the background music. What the author is writing about is the actors dialogue, but the color they choose to write in is what they are feeling and what they want you to feel. With crayons being used as a writing implement I think that it would cause people to think in different ways and be able to dissect the point someone is trying to get across with their writing. This would turn into creative thinking by not only telling people how they feel in literature but showing them.
I would like to do an experiment of people only being able to right with crayons because it makes me curious to whether my idea of using crayons can cause more creative ways of expressing yourself instead of black ink. Looking at everyone else's reactions to Emily Dickinson's poem you could tell little things about them and how the poem affected them in their writing. For example on part of the poem that a student thought was important was about truth being slanted. The student wrote his reaction slanted and made each paragraph a different color, which shows the different ways of telling the truth.
