I want to start with the limitations or problems I ran into. I would like to note, I purposefully made everything close to blue to represent the recurring water theme. I hoped this would help draw some connections to the original story and its title, “Four Hard Facts About Water.” I wish I had found a water droplet shape to further emphasize this, but they did not include one in their options. So I decided to stick with the random mass it generated rather than do a specific shape because the original flash is random facts that turn into one dark underlying story. For instance, I could have done a person because this story is told by a father who lost a daughter, but I thought it would’ve subtracted from the picture as a whole.
Now to analyze the actual word cloud. The two biggest words are, “Fact,” and, “Will.” The reason they are the biggest is because they are used more often, Illustrating how the author wrote definite solutions. They did not write maybe or kind of. They wrote will and fact, which are hard truths and reality. Which as we can see at the end of the flash, is what we see. The hard facts, the brutal truths, the harsh reality. The next two biggest words were the opposite of definitive. “Like,” and, “Nearly,” are the opposite of will and fact, and bring about a contrast to the hard facts. The author begins most of his sentences as so, they begin with an uncertainty – I nearly – and end with a certainty – will lead to. This is how the author emphasizes their helplessness and the brutality of reality.
