Abstraction

Abstract:
This writing explores the events, places, and people that surround the author and how these factors effect him every day. The writing is broken into sections, almost like mini-chapters, and covers a variety of topics: his father's birth in Mexico, the strange murders around his hometown, his grandfather's involvement in the navy...and more. Some sections use pictures in conjunction with words, while some sections are just pictures or, in one case, a newspaper clipping from when he was briefly employed by Chicago Sun Times' High School Sports section. The writing is at times juvenile and at times almost incomprehensible, such as when he describes birth and death in various forms. The writing shows what he feels about certain things and was written to try and understand the “why”s and the “how”s surrounding his thinking. In some ways, the paper was made to be written more so than read.

Brainstorming:

Jobs, paid and nonpaid
Lies, why were they lies, why were they said
Pore into old photo albums, even from before I was born
Ask parents questions
Ask myself questions
Go home
Go through old notebooks
Revise, revise, revise
Look for old newspapers
Clean under bed.