The Gentle Giant

EL312 Term Project: Me and the Kiz

Karissa and I are having an absolute blast with our term project. I think that the term project is such a great idea, and I also think that Karissa and I found a way to not only create a valid and reasonable formalist argument, but we also managed to completely go wild and turn this project into something that was beyond our imagination. We are so close to being done, and now, all we have to do is pretty much write the annotated bibliography and present in a "kick-ass" way. Without giving away too much information on our term project, I will briefly describe the term project due on April 19th.

We are using AIM chat, or text messaging chat (same difference), to create a formalist argument, saying that while some may argue that this is not language, or that it completely lacks form, our argument, and our presentation of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" in AIM chat will show that the storyline, the dramatic effect of the play, and the characters personas and qualities are still very comparable to the original play, and the AIM chat is not only understandable, but has been modernized for any member of our current society to understand. I think that if "A Streetcar Named Desire" was rewritten in AIM chat, that younger people would read it, and might get them interested in the story, relatively comparable to an epistolary story.

Overall, Karissa and I have been working very hard on this project, and I think that it will definitely show whenever we present on the 19th of April. Karissa has been awesome so far, and I would like to believe that I have been an asset to this team. This has been so much fun, and I only wish that I could have been able to do a project like this in some of my other classes.