Innocence Imagination Obsession - Heavenly Creatures

Sample B

Student's Written Explanation (incorporated into their presentation)

My static image depicts Daughters of Heaven and the way that the two main characters, Pauline and Juliet think and do not see the truth. 

The wall shows the way they get pulled apart the more they try to do things to stay together.  The two figures, Pauline (the brunette) and Juliet (the blonde) are reaching to the Fourth World, a world they eventually can't reach together.  

The statement "We sink or swim together" is part of a poem that the two girls wrote.  The significance of this, I think is that without seeing it they pulled themselves apart, especially with the murder.  

The blindfolds suggest that they didn't see what they were doing. 

The fake, pretty picture shows how surreal the Fourth World was that Pauline and Juliet believed in. 

The blood around the girls' legs reveals the mess that they got themselves into and couldn't get out of. 

NB. Subsequent to the generation of this exemplar, the assessment activity was modified to reflect the notion of a target audience. 

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