Breaking the Frozen Seas Within
To me, “A Book is like an Ice-axe, Breaking the Frozen Seas Within us,” sounds like a piece of art. With his use of words, Kafka paints a detailed yet simple image inside your head. If interpreted correctly, it is a quote of wonder to be explored. A big picture in Kafka’s quote is “the Frozen Seas,” which could be determined as a wall or barrier that separates undiscovered imagination and creativity. The book, or ice-axe, destroys or breaks that barrier, letting the new intelligence combine with what you already know to make the way you think of your world just a little, or perhaps a lot, different. To be clear, a book can add on to your creativity and knowledge, and make the world seem like a whole different place.
I have read a couple of books that have acted as the quote. One of my favorite books when I was a bit younger was, “The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles,” by Julie Andrews. It changed my point of view of the world, and greatly sparked my imagination, what with all the creativity of the world inside the book. The book also had enough descriptive words manageable for me at the time. I also enjoy reading over and over again the book “Wild Magic,” and its three sequels, written by Tamora Pierce. I liked the Alanna series as well, which was also written by Tamora Pierce. These ice-axes were very strong, and like the book by Julie Andrews, also has a large word choice. I believe Pierce is a very inspirational author when it comes to writing, and has a great effect on readers of all ages. There’s also the Twilight saga, of course, by Stephenie Meyer, who is also very inspiring, making you feel like you actually are a part of the story! There are probably millions more authors around the world that are also very good, and I encourage those people to keep writing on!
My Picture
I chose this picture for a couple of reasons. In one way, the way you look at it could be a tunnel leading to a bright place at the end of it. That bright place would be the place where new imagination and knowledge sits, waiting to be discovered. The “tunnel” in the image could also represent the frozen seas, and the white brightness might be the ice-axe, in a laser form, dissolving the thin, frozen layer of unknowingness, to find the creativity underneath. At one more point of view, the tunnel might be the seas under the frozen layer of ice, which might be the blackness at the end of the tunnel, and the light could be light from a person’s brain, where the book or ice-axe has cut open into the knowledge. In any way you look at it, this image could describe Kafka’s quote quite easily. For that reason I chose this bright and creative picture.
Picture Citation
http://images.google.com.my/images?gbv=2&&hl=en&q=imagination&&sa=N&start=0&ndsp=18
To me, “A Book is like an Ice-axe, Breaking the Frozen Seas Within us,” sounds like a piece of art. With his use of words, Kafka paints a detailed yet simple image inside your head. If interpreted correctly, it is a quote of wonder to be explored. A big picture in Kafka’s quote is “the Frozen Seas,” which could be determined as a wall or barrier that separates undiscovered imagination and creativity. The book, or ice-axe, destroys or breaks that barrier, letting the new intelligence combine with what you already know to make the way you think of your world just a little, or perhaps a lot, different. To be clear, a book can add on to your creativity and knowledge, and make the world seem like a whole different place.
I have read a couple of books that have acted as the quote. One of my favorite books when I was a bit younger was, “The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles,” by Julie Andrews. It changed my point of view of the world, and greatly sparked my imagination, what with all the creativity of the world inside the book. The book also had enough descriptive words manageable for me at the time. I also enjoy reading over and over again the book “Wild Magic,” and its three sequels, written by Tamora Pierce. I liked the Alanna series as well, which was also written by Tamora Pierce. These ice-axes were very strong, and like the book by Julie Andrews, also has a large word choice. I believe Pierce is a very inspirational author when it comes to writing, and has a great effect on readers of all ages. There’s also the Twilight saga, of course, by Stephenie Meyer, who is also very inspiring, making you feel like you actually are a part of the story! There are probably millions more authors around the world that are also very good, and I encourage those people to keep writing on!
My Picture
I chose this picture for a couple of reasons. In one way, the way you look at it could be a tunnel leading to a bright place at the end of it. That bright place would be the place where new imagination and knowledge sits, waiting to be discovered. The “tunnel” in the image could also represent the frozen seas, and the white brightness might be the ice-axe, in a laser form, dissolving the thin, frozen layer of unknowingness, to find the creativity underneath. At one more point of view, the tunnel might be the seas under the frozen layer of ice, which might be the blackness at the end of the tunnel, and the light could be light from a person’s brain, where the book or ice-axe has cut open into the knowledge. In any way you look at it, this image could describe Kafka’s quote quite easily. For that reason I chose this bright and creative picture.Picture Citation
http://images.google.com.my/images?gbv=2&&hl=en&q=imagination&&sa=N&start=0&ndsp=18
1 comment:
HI,
Good piece of writing! very good explanations too. However when you say "to me then kafka's quote" at the end you could say 'written by Franz Kafka.' You have a little mistake at the beginning too you say her instead of him, his! (hihi)
Good choice of a picture I think it really explains the quote too! good explanation!
Nice job!
Sophie
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