Wilfreddy Suarez

Professor Davidow

FIQWS 10113 – HA15

14 December 2019

First Genre – Reflection

The first genre I wrote was a short story about how Vincent Van Gogh was tired of feeling depressed so he took a pill that ended his life. But once he takes the pill he awakens to his own dead body on the ground and a world mysterious spiraled world that looked just like his painting Starry Night. What inspired me to choose to write a fictional short story was because I wanted to give a little spin to the painting Starry Night. Instead of writing about what crazy events lead to painting Starry Night, it would be more fun to write about Van Gogh to be in a world that looks exactly like Starry Night. Also, the definition of a short story is “…A piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a “single effect” or mood” (Wikipedia). The audience was towards people who like short stories that instead of an ending it would have a cliff hanger. The relationship between me, my audience and the medium are that like me there is a lot of people that don’t like to read a lot so it would have been better to write about a short story that had cliff hanger instead of an ending. Also if I read about a cliffhanger that hooked me in, I would always continue to read forward to see what happens next because I was curious. So if I left it at cliff hanger maybe more people would be curious about what would happen next in the story.

Second Genre – Reflection

The second genre I wrote was a letter about all the pent up feelings Vincent Van Gogh had before he died. He talks about how he was sad and how he sent many messages through his paintings but no one ever got them, and that he wanted help but it was too late. What inspired me to write a letter was because Van Gogh never left any message or hint of why he killed himself. Sure it was obvious that he was extremely depressed but he never wrote anything before he ended his life so we never found out what was going on inside of his head. The definition of a letter is, “…A written message conveyed from one person to another person through a medium” (Wikipedia). The audience is for people who felt the same way as Van Gogh did, secretly asking for help. The relationship between me, my audience and the medium are that I was depressed like Van Gogh, still am but just not as much now because I had great friends that I talked to and that helped me through a tough period of my life. I just want other people to know that ending it isn’t the right way to go, everything gets better little by little if you talk to someone about it, maybe Van Gogh could have lived longer if he did.