Graffiti Wall

I decided to have my main picture of the borders of the world. I wanted this to be my main picture in the background because throughout the entire quarter we have connected everything with borders and boundaries. I also chose to put an American flag to represent not only freedom from the last book and how he became free but also to represent that the US was always showing freedom. I decided to add the tree that is half blowing up and half peaceful to represent specifically "war and peace". I likes how it looked and how it shows on the bottom half not a tree blowing up but just a huge explosion. And the top shows the tree and how things can be peaceful after war. I placed the peace sign next to the tree representing war and peace because at the end of every story we read, there was usually a happy ending. I liked that it was black and red because it I feel that these colors represent evil and war and the objects making the peace sign is weapons which can represent good or evil. I thought it was another good representation of war and peace, along with good and evil. I decided to put the children at the bottom of the screen holding hands from different parts of the world to show family and that most of the books we read were about children that were younger than they should be to go through the things they did. For example the last book that we read. A 12 year old  boy fighting war and shooting innocent people. I placed a hand print of all the flags of different counties next to the children because I felt that both of these represent culture and children and families which can all be related to the books we have been reading in class.

The words that I have placed throughout my collage are chosen because in the end if you want freedom from your challenges then you need to take risks and the boy in the last story showed that by taking a risk to leave and never go back. He took control of his life so I put the word control there and he accepted what he had done and was able to live with himself. Therefore I placed the word acceptance in the shape of a heart because you need to be able to love and accept yourself in order to move on with decision that you have made or been forced into.

I believe that because of the pictures that I chose in their own way each one represents a piece of war peace and the different books that we have read in one way or another.