Life's+Choices

="Life's Choices" By: Brian Gibbs=

Literary Artist Statement:
In the piece, "Life's Choices," Stitch has a choice to make. He can lead a short uneventful life and become rich or he can lead a full long life and be lucky. He has the choice between what is right and what is easy. This is not always an easy choice to make especially given the circumstances that stitch is facing in this work. The luck is the better of the choices but it has more challenges than the fortune does. Stitch has to decide which he wants more.

The title of this work, "Life's Choices," shows that this work represents a choice that is made during someone's life. It could be one of the biggest choices that they make, but it does not have to. In this work, it is. Stitch has to decide how to live the rest of his life. Whether it be short and rich or long and lucky. It would be much easer for Stitch to take the short road that has no obstacles on it and become wealthy. The right choice for Stitch to take is to take the longer yellow road which has four obstacles on it. These give way to the choice between what is easy and what is right. The yellow path symbolizes the Yellow Brick Road from the Wizard of Oz, upon which Dorthy travels to Emerald City. The red path symbolizes the path to destruction. Therefore, the yellow path is the better choice. This work happens to fall in the rising action in the plot of Stitch's story. Once Stitch has chosen the yellow path, he will have to deal with nature (shell), burglary (alarm system coin), potential destruction (the pencil), and an unknown danger (the blue thing). He will have a lot to do before he can reach the climax of his story, where he reaches the luck. On the apple that is on top of the CD that Stitch is sitting on, are the words "Choose one" with arrows pointing to the two different paths. This implies that Stitch can not be rich and lucky.

This work can relate to The Wizard of Oz, because Dorthy takes the Yellow Brick Road and gets her luck, which is to go back home. She made the right choice and went through all of the obstacles necessary to get back home. Stitch will have to face similar problems to get what he wants, luck. This work can also relate to Frankenstein, because Dr. Frankenstein takes the equivalent of the red path so that he can create life. He knew as soon as he got there that he should not have done so. This can be used as a lesson for Stitch.

All of the objects in this box were collected from a random junk drawer in my house. It is one of those things that stuff that serve no real purpose end up. It is good for when you need to find something really random or just to see what is in it. The only thing that was not from this drawer is the little blue thing that resembles a Hershey's Kiss. It belongs to Somer Hand, who made sure that I gave her credit for it. I just grabbed some stuff and arranged it to resemble something that I had no idea about what it was.