I believe that my project did a very good job of remaining consistent, in the sense that every aspect about it was conveying the experience at hand. I was able to use entries that were relevant to both current day children, as well as those from the 60s. This was effective because children really have not changed very much in the last 50 years. They still have the same thought processes and naivety to the larger world around them. This project included the “paradigm”, inclusive of personal, disciplinary, and cultural aspects. Also, with the inclusion of all different kinds of multimedia, this experiment was an example of visual writing (literally). One literary figure that I chose to use was Thing One and Thing Two. They represent Janie and Alana, in the sense that they are identical. Although many people refuse to see the two of them that way, that is how they interpret themselves and their relationships with one another. Their skin color is different, but they are both 8 year old American girls experiencing the third grade. I do think that this narrative would have been more complete if it had been just a bit longer. I did include some resonance with Dr. Seuss and Thing One and Thing Two, yet I do wish that I had included a few more uses of resonance.
In response to the question about television being proactive and the internet being interactive, I think that this project has definitely represented the latter. Because of the way this experiment is designed, people are able to leave comments on it and, even after that, the author can respond to those comments. Also, the internet expands the potential audience of your art exponentially. A narrative presented in the form of a novel in a book has a rather limited reach and does not allow for any interaction between the readers and the author.
