For this linking assignment, I attempted to read Amanda B’s extremely long emoji story. You can see her story here. I’m fairly confident that the movie she is describing is Hustle, a movie that I have recently watched. 

I chose to link her assignment to mine, as she also decided to tell her story using the “play by play” method, as opposed to trying to represent the big ideas. For both of us, I think this was detrimental to the telling of our story. Because her story is long, I found myself getting lost in the characters and who was doing what in which country. Although my story was not as long, I’m sure that others had a difficult time following what my main character was doing every line. You can view my emoji story here. 

Amanda highlighted a few ideas that really resonated with me and made me think about my own emoji story reflection.  Here are my main thoughts: 

1. We have come a long way with emojis. Amanda articulated that she appreciated the representations of color, race and gender in her emojis. As a person of color, I also appreciate that I can use a thumbs up sign that looks like my skin color instead of a yellow thumb. However when it came to doing this assignment I used the standard yellow girl option. I wonder why I did that? Was it because I read a book and didn’t visualize my main character as a particular race? I’m not sure. 
2. Amanda also pointed out that she enjoyed creating this story as she didn’t have to worry about punctuation or spelling. I would agree with this sentiment as well; it was refreshing (and time saving) to not have to edit forever. 

I really enjoyed reading Amanda’s emoji story and I think she did a great job describing the plot in detail using emojis.