I ♡ Novels

♡ This article was extremely fascinating because I am a text-a-holic, but I never thought a novel could a novel through a text.  As I look through my text messages, I could see how they could read as a poem, creating my own type of novel.  I think this could be a fun way to get students interested in poetry.  This article inspired me to use text messages and text codes to help teach poetry and get students interested in poetry.  If students saw that their regular everyday habits could be transformed into a poem maybe they would enjoy poetry more.  The text novels also reminded me of Twitter.  Texting uses a smaller number of characters and could be like a Twitter post.  Both methods could teach students how to write a short story or poem in their own creative way. 

♡ I find the novels that Mone and Yoshi wrote to be inspiring for young girls especially who are dealing with relationship issues.  Yoshi's story "Deep Love" sold a hundred thousand copies.  I found this astonishing since it started off as a text.  Banana Yoshimoto says, "Youth have their own kind of suffering, and I think that the cellphone novels became an outlet for their suffering" (Goodyear 65).  I think Yoshimoto was writing saying that that this new phenomena became and outlet for the youth, especially since youth can relate to texting and the stories told by the texting authors.