Reflection on Recast

For this assignment I chose to recast the Monson poem into a short fictional story. I went through each line and organized the events of the poem chronologically by the page numbers he had listed. Then I tried to make a story out of the nonsense that was the chronology. Some of the parts of the index were difficult to splice into the story such as Aristophanes, the section titled Alphabetical order, and the section titled Altitude, so not every single portion of the poem was converted into the story. Because this is a short story I tried to be somewhat vague but also descriptive at the same time, allowing the reader to imagine the events in between each sequence I described as they would want to. The final section of the story involving the amputations with axes made the story twist in a manner I wasn't expecting, but overall I was satisfied because it didn't leave the story predictable in any way. Altogether this was assuredly my favorite assignment of the quarter and this poem has to be one the most unique I've ever seen.