Portrayal of Heartbreak

Pain, rejection, lonliness, anger, doubt...things commonly felt after parting ways with that person you couldn't see your self without. Breakups are rough and something everyone experiences at one point in their life, making it a popular topic for producers to make movies about, musicans to sing about, and authors to write books about. Each genre brings a slightly different portrayal to the idea of breakups and the emotions that surround them.


The Notebook is a classic love story and does a great job drawing the viewer in to feel the ups and downs of Aly and Noah's relationship. Movies are very effective in getting emotion past the screen and into the hearts of viewers because they allow a person to phyically see a relationship be built and then fall to pieces, hear the sobs of a person desperate to catch a glimpse of their ex or the sound of their voice, and feel the sting of emptiness of life without the person that made it worth living for. Very few people can make it through The Notebook without shedding a tear.
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Songs and music are also very effective in conveying the feeling of a breakup. I connect with music the most out of any genre. There are so many songs that you can listen to, and you feel like it was written for you, like you were singing it. It brings to life the relationship you shared and the memories your trying to forget. You don't need to be watching anything, the lyrics paint the picture for you, and you can hear the sorrow in the voice of the artist. My favorite breakup song is Forever and Always by Taylor Swift because it expressed exactly how I felt after my biggest and hardest breakup. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaBF9TeZ7Hw

Dear John was a great book I read that dealt with breakup. Books get to me, but not near as much as music or movies. Good authors can paint a vivid picture as Nicholas Sparks did in Dear John, but the feeling and emotion doesn't quite jump through the page as much. I feel like it's much more up for interpretation. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0989757/synopsis

Writing and Skating...Not so Different afterall

A lot of time and thought goes into creating a finished piece of writing. It starts with an idea, and then the idea has to be taken to the next level and interpreted into words. When first put into words, its rough, unpolished; there is much room for changes and rearranging to make it your own and the best that it can be. These adjustments aren't going to acheived by revising just once, or even twice. It takes many drafts of writing to get it perfectly how you envisioned. You need to be flexible and open about the revisions you make; you need to see what fitting and what isn't. After that process is done, the writing has come a long way since that intial draft and is perfected to be the writers own.

Creating a program for figure skating is a very similar process to writing. When a choreographer listens to a piece of music, they get an idea that they want the skater to convey when he or she skates the program. So the choreographer finds a way to transfer their ideas into movements. Depending on the skater's abilities and style of skating, the intial program the choreographer comes up with is going to have to be tweaked and adjusted, most likely more than once. The skater needs to be comfortable skating the program, and its going to take some work by the choreographer to achieve that yet keep their intial envisionment of what they wanted the program to look like. After multiple changes, the program is in its best form.