Bloodchild - Butler, Octavia ; Assessment

1. What is your reaction to the text you just read?

     Throughout the entire story, I was unsure what perspective the story was being told through. My biggest clue was the fact that the creature telling the story had more limbs than a human would and that their species if called the Terran (which I thought was a pretty cool name for a species). Reading the story unfold through these creatures was interesting because they lived in a world that contained humans and they killed some of these humans for food, which is something I'm not used to happening in a story unless it is human on human violence. 

     Aside from unique perspective of the story, a lot of the issues seemed to erupt from our character not exactly having developed enough to take on the responsibilities of being an "adult." Having to have killed an animal "at least half" of his size, while not having ever killed something, and being escorted to the Doctor's office by his mother, this character is still a bit dependent on his parents. I was able to appreciate some of the character development that occurred within the story and, despite the difference in species, I was able to relate to some of the struggles our character went through.

2. What connections did you make with the story? Discuss the elements of the story with which you were able to connect

     The biggest element of the story I was able to connect with was our character having to complete a task of which he had never done before. Although he was able to ultimately complete the task of killing an animal half his size, he showed a little bit of fear when his mother told him to do it. Although cliche, this experience of fearing something you've never done before and then overcoming that fear by completing the something related a lot to some of the challenges I've faced, especially as of late here in College.

3. What changes would you make to adopt this story into another medium? What medium would you use? What changes would you make? 

     This story seems to be one of drama with a few action/gore elements. Personally, I would increase the amount of action and gore while retaining some of the drama and tension between family relations to try and make a heavily driven story video game. I open to the idea of increasing the action in the story to allow for more gameplay within this game, or increasing the ability for the story to branch off into smaller sub stories to allow the character to develop, like a video game from TellTale where a story is being told through gameplay that is mostly just making decisions. Being able to control the reaction our main character would have to some of the things being told to him would make this story pretty interesting.