Flames

In this graphics interchange format (GIF) clip, a girl in a striped tank shirt who stands in the background of the jungle has a splattered blood across her poker face.  She doesn't smile as her eyes shows no sign of soul.  The camera's view pops frames by a close-up image of her face.  She furrows her brows angrily and her doe-eyes reveal reflection of bursting flames.  There is a subtitle on the bottom of the clip that says, "She swore revenge". 

The point of the GIF clip is that she sees something tragic before her own eyes and she decides to put a revenge on her enemies for people that might be her family or friends.  The revenge comes from her grudge and trauma that mix together.

Based on the girl's furious expression, there is a reflection of flames in her eyes that represents 'grudge', but also 'trauma' when she witness the situation where her family or friends are possibly burned to death.  Both grudge and trauma fuse into a 'revenge'.  Standing in the middle of the jungle, she seems shocked and unresponsive to the tragic situation as if she loses everything that are precious to her.  'Grudge' and 'trauma' trigger her to decide to avenge her family or family who are really close to her.  Revenge is a strong word because she wants to punch her enemies what they've done to her family or friends.  Her eyes with reflection of angry flames seemingly scream at her enemies 'Go. To. Hell.'  That's her desire that boils angrily inside of her.  She wants her enemies to deserve it cruelly.

This idea is important because some kids from all over world witness tragic situation that happens in the front of them and they might not erase their trauma.  Some of them can develop grudge toward their enemies who murder their family or friends.  They seek for revenge.

Blown Away

Blown Away, written by Carrie a country singer, was interpreted in ASL (American Sign Language) by Rosa Lee, a deaf woman.

The message conveyed in the video that she didn't want to dig into her past.  All she wanted to do was wiping out her past, period.

There was a storm in Oklahoma.  The girl lived in a house with her mean alcoholic father while her mother was buried in the grave.  She prayed that the storm would destroy her house because she wanted to clean her past.  It was not enough wind and rain to ravage her past.  She heard the sires coming to her house and she left drunk father sleeping on the chair to hide herself in the cellar.  It was a sweet revenge for leaving her father alone in a room. She wanted a wind to destroy everything in the house.

We know this because the girl obviously suffered and hated past-everything in the house.  The wind represented as a 'eraser of the past' that the girl wanted to purify her past, which might be not pleasure to remember it, and move on to a life without looking back at her past.  Also, the house was probably symbolized as 'past or memories' because of the line---To rip the nails out of the past---in 'Blown Away' that was the girl's desire to wipe out her memories.  There was no regret for her to do that.  She had no love or affection from her alcoholic father since maybe her mother's death?  It sounded like she lived in wrong place and wrong parent who did not nurture her with some love since her mother's death.  It was too depressing for her to live in the same house with her alcoholic father.  She could step out and wanted to do what did she want to instead of holding her desire back.

Take this message to heart because some kids live with ignorant parents or guardians who did not provide with nourishment.  There is no point for kids to smile by remembering their pasts.  Pasts could make some kids feel pain.  Escaping from the pasts without any hesitations is their desires.

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