Visual Literacy

"The Things They Carried," by Tim O'Brien, really hits me each time I read it. However, as I worked on my visual literacy project, I found myself breaking down emotionally as I saw the precarious thread that the boat hung on. As that boat swung back and forth in my little jar, barely skimming the ground, I felt the soldiers hanging in between sleep and wakefulness. I felt them as "at night, not quite dreaming, they gave themselves over to lightness, they were carried, they were purely born."