Sunday, February 22, 2015

Illustrious Artist - Daphne M

Daphne M- Illustrious Artist
Red Scarf Girl - Chapter 3,4 & 5
Ji-li Jiang
Rotation #2


The drawing I made was inspired by the topic I would like to write about, da-zi-bao.
According to the newspaper, the schools classes were suspended, and students were required to make posters about the teachers and their learning. The posters are about means of protest, propaganda, and popular communication. They have been used in China since imperial times. Da-zi-bao are propaganda posters. In the book, the posters are supposed to say how their teachers stand against the system and are considered "Black", the opposite of Red which is Communism. Ji-li, Zhang- Jie , and An-Yi couldn't think of anything, so they went outside to see what others had written. They are amazed on what other have said, and they canot portray their teachers like the others did. 
(Notice the little lines above Ji-Li's head in the drawing, they represent her reaction.) They instead of writing it themselves, copy down already written ones. 

3 comments:

  1. Daphne,
    Your drawing is very simple yet very descriptive. It gives me the opportunity to decide what I think of it myself. I don't need to read your post to understand it. The post is but a caption to make sure everybody can relate to your thinking. Thank you so much for boosting my thinking.
    -Julianna Mello

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  2. Daphne, good post and good drawing also. I liked how you explained what a da-zi-bao was and how you explained what was going on between Ji-Li-Jiang's mind and her friends'. Although everyone was writing the da-zi-bao's, they could not do anything not even close to that because they weren't capable of criticizing the teachers. Since they were "favorites" (in a good way) from the teachers and had a stronger relationship with them, they felt like it would be to much of a "back-stabing", I guess, to say bad things all over about them. So they just decided to copy some down from other people just to state and have evidence that they were also doing them.
    Daphne I liked everything you said and agree with you, great post and thanks for pushing my thinking forward.

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  3. Daphne, good post and good drawing also. I liked how you explained what a da-zi-bao was and how you explained what was going on between Ji-Li-Jiang's mind and her friends'. Although everyone was writing the da-zi-bao's, they could not do anything not even close to that because they weren't capable of criticizing the teachers. Since they were "favorites" (in a good way) from the teachers and had a stronger relationship with them, they felt like it would be to much of a "back-stabing", I guess, to say bad things all over about them. So they just decided to copy some down from other people just to state and have evidence that they were also doing them.
    Daphne I liked everything you said and agree with you, great post and thanks for pushing my thinking forward.

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