Jujube/thesis-drafts

5 key texts

• Jujube/synopsis#United_by_Feelings
• Jujube/synopsis#David_S._Miall:_Emotions_and_the_Structuring_of_Narrative_Responses

I want to evoke feelings. I believe it is shared human nature and thus a way to foster empathy.

Empathy comes from compassion (understanding and love) for the self. <-- don't have a text yet; does personal experience count?

• Jujube/synopsis#Stephen_Kern:_A_Cultural_History_of_Causality_.7C_Chapter_5:_Emotion

Causality is important in determining narrative.

• Jujube/synopsis#David_Mamet:_On_Directing_Film

Narrative, in the dramatic sense, follows a structure.

• Jujube/synopsis#Siegfried_Kracauer:_Memory_Images.2C_1927

Memories are images strung together. Words construct images — words come to me via memories. I am turning personal memories into images... And I want these images to make sense to others. I want others to understand, through these images, something about me, something about themselves.

I am still a bit confused about how narrative and memory come together...