Escape

What do these videos have to do with escape?

All the videos we watched in class are related to a form of escape. The guy that seeks for the extinct bird is always after a goal that puts him out of life. The prisoners literally try to escape from the prison, although not from a state of mind like the other examples of escape. The man who photographs little dolls also tries to escape from reality. He had a traumatic episode in his life that changed his mind and put him in “other” world where he can do whatever, even revenge the people that beat him up. The kid with disability, Mike, is a life escape by himself. All his issues block him from having a normal life, and he tries to escape to the opposite direction of all the other examples; he tries to escape to the real world where he can have a girlfriend and have a normal life.

What does these videos have to do with writing

Writing itself is a form of escape. To a estate of mind and spirit which allow you to turn your mind off from the reality and travel to your imagination and ideas. Everybody that has read a book that catches your attention for hours or when you are completely concentrated in writing you feel senseless for the real world; blind and deaf to what is happening around you.