Reflection

1)    Accidental Propaganda conveys a very different aspect not expected from a war like topic. It doesn’t magnify the bad things or historical figures established during war times, but brings to the table a series of events and media that are that of a student. A common tag throughout each entry and figure is anxiety. It seems as though a student or child is expecting to go through something in the future and does not know whether they are ready to experience that or not. It allows the reader to reflect on the things they have and have not done, and sympathize for those that are less fortunate.

2)   Much like this class wants to avoid, I live my life in a very ordered, organized conventional way. I make a schedule and follow my week exactly how my schedule tells me to until it is complete and it is time to update my schedule. I notice ever little detail of everything in a very simplistic business oriented way. Art has never meant anything to me but a pretty or ugly object; there is no expression in figures through my eyes. Every novel or work I have ever read through prior to this class has been interpreted literally, intently much like that of a contract. I could tell you every detail that happened in a novel, but could in no way describe what any poetic, metaphoric, or symbolic term or phrase meant or was referring to. If the text could not be described in a dictionary I could not tell you what it meant. In actuality, I had not one ounce of “paradoxical” blood running through my body. After detailed review of notes taken on how to interpret things outside the doxa, I began to slowly adapt and understand this foreign way of interpretation. Overall after finally taking the time to compose this final group of figures, I can say I understand the concept Barthes wrote to express.  This new concept will certainly allow me to “experience” things I never thought I would not necessarily physically, but within the mind through the gathering of historic events and knowledge and compiling them not as I would normally do but through someone else’s eyes.