Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Same Stories
I wish I would have listened to the war of the worlds broadcast before I read the literary version. Hearing it as a radio broadcasts helps listeners understand the drastic fear in everyones voice where as the fear is harder to distinct in the text version. I don't think the text version did a good job in emphasizing the amount of fear that each people actually had. I think it is possible to demonstrate fear through text however, in the small amount of the text that we read, I did not see it. I think if I went back to read the text after listening to the novel, I would better understand the story. It is interesting how a very similar story can take on two different meanings. To me, the text was confusing and even boring to a certain extent whereas the radio version was very intriguing and kept my attention!
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I completely agree with you, Karson. Listening to the radio version was very helpful for visualization purposes and it also helped inspire fear and awe in everyones ideas about the story. However I also feel that if we had read the story again after listening to the broadcast we would have had an excellent understanding of the story and we might have even noticed things we missed prior to listening to the broadcast.
ReplyDeleteI agree with both of you! I definitely think we should have looked back into the text after hearing the broadcast, because the broadcast changed my view of the story completely. I'm interested to see how I would have interpreted the text after listening to the emotional radio version.
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