Author Statements

Charlie Parsons

Two strategies that I used when writing my vignettes were figurative language and key details. Here is a snippet of ”Untitled 2” by myself, “I scanned my schedule like a copier machine”

(Parsons Untitled 2). The key details portion is from “Untitled 1” also by myself. Here it is, “I felt scared, then mad as time progressed. Question after question, I kept shaking my head” (Parsons Untitled 1). Those are two of the authorial and literary devices I used in my vignettes.

The first art piece that I made was of a paddle board and a paddle for Kala. This was for the vignette about his history with Hawaiian cultures and artifacts. I used an iPad and sketchbook app, to manipulate regular shapes like squares and circles to make a paddle board. The other art was a photo of the back of Kala’s ID, the photo shows us both of his names, Sean and Kala.