{"id":312,"date":"2008-09-16T13:46:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T17:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/?p=312"},"modified":"2008-09-16T13:58:02","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T17:58:02","slug":"cyoa-reflection-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/2008\/09\/16\/cyoa-reflection-6\/","title":{"rendered":"CYOA Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came into this assignment utterly daunted by the idea of mapping out several possible, potentially inter-connecting outcomes from one segment of the book to another in <em>House of Danger<\/em>. Unfortunately, my nervousness was not unfounded in that I had great difficulty being able to complete my map. Several times, I found myself at various endings (whether they included death, an uncertain ending involving other dimensions\/etc., or safety.) Still, I could not make my way to the end of the book&#8211;while reading through it repeatedly, I could not propel my character towards the latest pages in the book, which I found extremely frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>Just as this book was clearly written for the reading level of a sixth grader (approximately), I felt like one, as well, because I felt helpless in trying to complete my map and finish the book overall. Each day, however, I was able to approach it and find myself further down various paths.<\/p>\n<p>As a reader, however, I did enjoy the book in the sense that it inspired me to attempt to create a project like this of my own. Daunting as it must be for a reader, it must be adventurous and perhaps quite daunting for the author, as well. Nonetheless, the concept of the book interests me and it was an intriguing introduction into a genre of literature with which I had not previously been familiar.<\/p>\n<p>It interested me that risky, sometimes-altruistic choices led to speedy deaths, whereas timid, erring-on-the-side-of-safety choices resulted in my character living longer or ending up in an entirely different reality (several plot lines were in play in my book.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came into this assignment utterly daunted by the idea of mapping out several possible, potentially inter-connecting outcomes from one segment of the book to another in House of Danger. Unfortunately, my nervousness was not unfounded in that I had great difficulty being able to complete my map. Several times, I found myself at various &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/2008\/09\/16\/cyoa-reflection-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CYOA Reflection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,4,57,37],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-cyoa","tag-literature","tag-map","tag-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}