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WW1 Creative Historians
Paragraph 1- Project Description
To start preparing for the Creative Historian short story project, our class studied background information about World War one and read the book “All Quiet on the Western Front”. After we finished reading the book and learning the basic knowledge of World War one, we each had a deep and solid understanding of what the truth of war meant to us. Then, shortly after that, we began brainstorming about what we wanted to write our short story on, we chose the country our character was from, their occupation, what year it was, and most importantly what our truth of war was. When we finished brainstorming, we began writing our short stories and conveying the truth of war we decided to write about.
Paragraph 2- Literary Strengths
1. My story shows round characters the best, I made sure that I described each of my characters well enough for the reader to picture them in their minds. I want my reader to feel attached to each character, especially my character Henri.
2. “Philippe is one of the most serious and solemn men I have ever met. By the way his head is slouched on his shoulders and his eyes droop like dog ears, I can tell he misses his family. He loves to tell stories of his life adventures before the war. Sometimes I let him talk on and on forever just because I know looking back on those adventures, his soul becomes happy.” I believe this is a strong example of showing round characters because this is the first time in the story when I mention Philippe, I make sure to convey his looks along with his personality and the way he acts. I felt that round characters was an important element to include in my story because it is easy for the reader to be entertained when they know the character well, I want my reader to be “rooting” for my character and I am confident that they will. Round characters makes my story easier to read when the reader has a solid description of everyone in it.
Paragraph 3- Literary Weaknesses
1. In my story, I struggled most with adding enough historical detail, instead of focusing on weapons and incidents that happened during the battle of Verdun, I spent more time on my characters and tying everything back into my truth of war.
2. I researched many facts and details about the battle of Verdun but it was hard to incorporate all of the research I did into a fictional story, since I spent too much time and thought into my characters, conflicts, and plot. I used many details of the climate in Verdun, a few descriptions of the weapons being used, and the setting around my characters, but that is the only historical detail I added. After Lori and Stephen critiqued my paper and suggested to use more facts, I went back though my research notes about weapons, French language, the climate, and the setting to include more in my paper. After I added in a few historical details, I felt more confident about the evidence and realism of my story.
Paragraph 4- Story Revisions
1. A major revision I made to my story is adding in more historical details, I also revised my ending, and made it not as abrupt and unrealistic.
2. Adding in historical details, I went back to my research notes and added in a few extra facts to my story about weapons, climate, and the setting around the soldiers. This revision helped the evidence of my story and made it more realistic. For my other revision, I went back through my entire story and added in places about how my main character misses his family and wants to return back to his hometown. After I added those revisions into my story, it made the end sound less abrupt and quick, it now is thought out and makes more sense to the rest of my story.
3. My first revision makes my story more interesting to read and follow along to, while you read you get to learn about actual facts and details that were in the war, and especially the battle of Verdun. My second revision makes my story easier to follow along to, it intrigues you to read the rest because the end is not predictable.
To start preparing for the Creative Historian short story project, our class studied background information about World War one and read the book “All Quiet on the Western Front”. After we finished reading the book and learning the basic knowledge of World War one, we each had a deep and solid understanding of what the truth of war meant to us. Then, shortly after that, we began brainstorming about what we wanted to write our short story on, we chose the country our character was from, their occupation, what year it was, and most importantly what our truth of war was. When we finished brainstorming, we began writing our short stories and conveying the truth of war we decided to write about.
Paragraph 2- Literary Strengths
1. My story shows round characters the best, I made sure that I described each of my characters well enough for the reader to picture them in their minds. I want my reader to feel attached to each character, especially my character Henri.
2. “Philippe is one of the most serious and solemn men I have ever met. By the way his head is slouched on his shoulders and his eyes droop like dog ears, I can tell he misses his family. He loves to tell stories of his life adventures before the war. Sometimes I let him talk on and on forever just because I know looking back on those adventures, his soul becomes happy.” I believe this is a strong example of showing round characters because this is the first time in the story when I mention Philippe, I make sure to convey his looks along with his personality and the way he acts. I felt that round characters was an important element to include in my story because it is easy for the reader to be entertained when they know the character well, I want my reader to be “rooting” for my character and I am confident that they will. Round characters makes my story easier to read when the reader has a solid description of everyone in it.
Paragraph 3- Literary Weaknesses
1. In my story, I struggled most with adding enough historical detail, instead of focusing on weapons and incidents that happened during the battle of Verdun, I spent more time on my characters and tying everything back into my truth of war.
2. I researched many facts and details about the battle of Verdun but it was hard to incorporate all of the research I did into a fictional story, since I spent too much time and thought into my characters, conflicts, and plot. I used many details of the climate in Verdun, a few descriptions of the weapons being used, and the setting around my characters, but that is the only historical detail I added. After Lori and Stephen critiqued my paper and suggested to use more facts, I went back though my research notes about weapons, French language, the climate, and the setting to include more in my paper. After I added in a few historical details, I felt more confident about the evidence and realism of my story.
Paragraph 4- Story Revisions
1. A major revision I made to my story is adding in more historical details, I also revised my ending, and made it not as abrupt and unrealistic.
2. Adding in historical details, I went back to my research notes and added in a few extra facts to my story about weapons, climate, and the setting around the soldiers. This revision helped the evidence of my story and made it more realistic. For my other revision, I went back through my entire story and added in places about how my main character misses his family and wants to return back to his hometown. After I added those revisions into my story, it made the end sound less abrupt and quick, it now is thought out and makes more sense to the rest of my story.
3. My first revision makes my story more interesting to read and follow along to, while you read you get to learn about actual facts and details that were in the war, and especially the battle of Verdun. My second revision makes my story easier to follow along to, it intrigues you to read the rest because the end is not predictable.