Creative Writing; Spring 2017

Bicentennial-Dan Chiasson

   The first five stanzas in the Bicentennial was very movie like as if I was in his head, and I don't mean as if I was reading his mind. In movies when there is a scene that shows the main characters thoughts time seems to slow down and focus the camera on the character while the character thinks and has flashbacks and slowly things are described to us by them. I had this slow mind exposing like feeling  because all the things that he drives to describe as movement in the first stanza are all things that take forever or move slowly in there own sense of time such as a "a dragon fly across the sky", or a film from frame to frame". Even at the end of the fifth stanza when he mentions "My friends and I did copious amount of ecstasy at parties when  it you, you simply shone. Now everyone in the room was beautiful", for you to recognize that it would have to be the drug hitting you in such a way where time itself is slowed down and while you look around it feels like spot lights are hitting everyone for you to notice all there facial features or whatever the case may be to feel or recognize that they're beautiful.

5:1
 The very first line him saying "from home to their small cell-like rooms" was a way of showing a transition from a open world to a place where people waste there day away similar to prison. Especially the fact she showed him this coin about a boy who she dated who knows how long ago, it doesn't go into much dept but the simple fact of the author getting the feeling that she is still in love with him and she cant do anything about it because she always ends up going back to her room.