I had the hardest time writing my story for this assignment. I could not think of a story at all and when I did, it was probably a really bad story. While writing it I sent text messages to my boyfriend joking about how bad it was and how I could not for the life of me think of anything to say or even what to make a story out of.
It was hard to write this story and it did turn frustrating. I found it frustrating, because I wanted to use articles, like to and the. But that was not possible. There were no emojis for those words. It did take awhile to change my way of thinking of sentence structures and how we talk to how the emojis describe words and emotions. After I figured that out it became a little easier, but I still tried to use those words in sentences. The mac I was using would not bring up emojis when I did try to use them though.
My story was much longer on the mac than it appeared on my home computer. I could not figure out how to double space it in wordpress either.
Here is my emoji story:
👸🏻🗼. 👸🏻➡️🌤?🌤🚫. 👸🏻😭,👸🏻👀👨🏻🚶🏻🗼. 👸🏻➡️🚪,🚪🔐. 🚫🔑. 👸🏻🚫🚪. 👸🏻➡️🗔. 🗼⇡🌲. 👸🏻🚫➡️. 👸🏻😱🍃🗼. 👸🏻🗣👨🏻, “🚨👸🏻, 👸🏻. 🗼🚫➡️🗼.” 👨🏻🗣, “👸🏻🔑?” 👸🏻🗣, “👸🏻🚫🔑. 🚪🔐&👸🏻😱🍃.” 👨🏻🗣, “👍. 👨🏻🤺↑👸🏻. 🔓🚪.👸🏻➡️🌤.” 👸🏻🗣, “👍.” 👨🏻🤺💂🏻♀️. 👨🏻↑⓵🛬. 👨🏻🤺💂🏻♀️. 👨🏻↑②🛬. 🔁🤺💂🏻♀️,🤺💂🏻♀️⑧🛬. 👨🏻👀🚪. 🚪🔐, 💂🏻♀️🚫🔑. 👨🏻😡. 👨🏻🗣👸🏻, “👸🏻,👨🏻🚪. 👨🏻🚫🔑.” 👸🏻🗣, “👸🏻🚫🔑!, 💂🏻♀️🔑?” 👨🏻🗣, “💂🏻♀️🚫🔑!” 👸🏻🗣, “👑🔑?” 👨🏻🗣, “👨🏻🚫🤺👑! 🙄, 👸🏻🤡.” 👨🏻➡️🚪🔁. 🚪🔓. 👨🏻👀👸🏻. 👨🏻😍👸🏻. 👨🏻👸🏻➡️🗼. 👸🏻👀🌲🌲🌲, 👸🏻😱. 👸🏻🚫➡️🗼. 👸🏻①➡️🗼. 👨🏻🗣, “👨🏻🤺👨🏼,💂🏻♀️,👬👬. 👸🏻⛑👨🏻. “ 👸🏻🗣, “👍. 👸🏻➡️🗼.” 👨🏻👸🏻➡️🌲🌲🌲. 👸🏻👨🏻👀🍻➕🍔🍟. 👸🏻🗣, “👸🏻→🍔🍟➕🍻.” 👨🏻🗣, “🚫.💂🏻♀️, 👬→🍔🍟➕🍻. 👨🏻🤺👬,💂🏻♀️. 👨🏻🚫🤺💂🏻♀️.” 👸🏻😡, 👸🏻🍟🍔. 👨🏻👸🏻→🌲🌲🌲. 👨🏻👨🏻➡️🏰. 👨🏻👸🏻💍. 👸🏻👨🏻👫. 👴🏻👵🏻.
Here is my partner’s translation of my story:
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess who lived in a tower. One day, she looked out of her window to see if the sun was shining out beyond the clouds, and—as she was disappointed to discover—it was not. However, another interesting thing caught her eye. Down below, she spotted a handsome prince walking towards the tower. The beautiful princess rushed toward the door but found that it was locked. She didn’t have a key, which means she couldn’t leave the tower. She rushed back to the window and looked down on all the trees. She knew it was too high to jump out of. Desperate, she shouted at the prince to try to get his attention.
“Help!” she cried. “Please, I am trapped in this tower with no way to escape!”
“Don’t you have a key?” the prince shouted back to her, alarmed.
“I don’t have a key and I have no way to escape… Please help me!” She shouted in desperation.
“Don’t worry, princess! I will fight my way to you and let you out of that dreadful tower!” The princess exclaimed with excitement. The prince made his way to the tower and fought all the guards until he was able to make it up all the flights of stairs to the princess’s door. When he reached the door, he realized that the guard did not have a key and he became very angry.
He called out to the princess, “The guard doesn’t have the key!”
She replied: “The queen doesn’t have the key?”
“You didn’t tell me I had to fight the queen! You have got to be kidding me…” he muttered the last part under his breath. But he went to retrieve the key, nonetheless, and returned with it to open the door. The moment he laid eyes on the princess, he fell madly in love. He grabbed her hand and rushed her out of the dreadful tower. As they stepped outside, the princess marveled at the trees surrounding her. She would never return to the dreadful tower and she and the prince made their way into the forest as he retold the story of how he came to rescue her.
“The guards were all over, but I fought all of them off, sometimes two at once! You should have seen me. I knew I had to rescue you.” He trailed off as he looked at her.
“Thank you for saving me from the tower. I don’t know how I will ever repay you.”
The prince and the princess realized that they were both very hungry, but they couldn’t decide what they wanted to eat. The princess said that she wanted a burger, fries, and beer, but the prince said that he’d already had that earlier before he fought off the guards. The princess became angry and eventually the prince gave in. After they finished eating, the two of them continued on into the forest until they reached the prince’s castle.
The prince and princess got married, grew old together, and lived happily ever after.
Discussing the translations:
I actually kind of hate the person I chose as my partner. My story was not very good and she made it so much better! The translation that she made was extremely accurate. She did have to ask me what some emojis were, but I agreed that some of them did not look like what they were supposed to. She did add to my story and made it so much better than what I had originally done. Her translation created a more flowery translation as what I had said. I did not think of it in the same way she had.
She did not realize that the prince and the princess in my story were arguing about eating at a bar. The prince did not want to because he thought that they would have to fight if a guard that was off duty was there. He also did not want to fight the queen, so he broke down the door instead. She also missed that the princess was afraid of the forest, because she had grown up her whole life in the tower. But that the prince convinced her to leave, saying that he would protect her from any man or beast that would come in their way.
Her translation was pretty accurate.
How she retold it, she was able to get many of the key events of the story. She got that the princess was stuck in the tower and that she could not leave. She also stated that the princess did not actually have the key and neither did the guards, but after the prince fought the queen he was able to get into the tower and to the love of his life. As well as saying that they got married and lived happily every after.
It did change my opinion on Literature by the numbers. It showed that even though it looked simple, it is a lot harder to create a story out of emojis. It also made me realize that I would never do it again. These authors took so much time to create these stories out of different things and it is ridiculous.
Westyn Eggleston 