All the World Building Graphic Organizer was was a set of questions meant to help us add some depth to our worlds.This works much better for stories in worlds far different than reality. Alien worlds or dystopian future are ideal. Filling this out was actually quite fun and helpful. Here it is. Now the second part to this assignment was drawing a picture to accompany our story. Unfortunately these aren't going into the book but that would've been amazing.My drawing should be below and below the drawing should be a small explanation of what's going on in the picture.
So the first thing you might notice in my drawing is the large angel smack in the middle. This is some rebel graffiti. In my story you can choose to be immortal, this is through some unconventional means that get rid of your body but immortality is immortality even if it's just digital immortality. The sign it's painted on is company propaganda encouraging the uploading for digital immortality (man I wish I used the term digital immortality in my story now). The painting suggests doing this tethers down a person's soul making it so that they can no longer go to heaven. Something similar to that is suggested by the words "PARADISE IS LOST" on the lower left of the drawing. Paradise Lost is kind of a running theme in my story, small references showing up now and then. This includes the graffiti and the company's logo being a snake. I'm actually really proud of how I used the snake in the story. The cool thing about it is that both sides in the battle use the snake as a negative and a positive image. The company uses it as their logo, the rebellion uses it to make antagonistic graffiti designs (seen bottom left)but they also all their malicious programs used in hacking snakes. And much in the same matter they both sides have differing views on what "Paradise" is. On Lazarus's side, "Paradise" is living forever inside the computer network. On the rebellion (Judas) side they see this as paradise being lost therefore they use the snake to get it back. This whole idea of differing viewpoints comes from when I read Paradise Lost and how I found it hard to see Lucifer as an antagonist. Of course he is technically the protagonist if the story but demons are typically known as evil beings. So I tried to implement that into my story, the argument of whether Lucifer was the hero or the villain. We can see stores simply labeled food and clothing. This suggests the future world's new economy under a single power that has completely eliminated all brands and left the essentials for survival and nothing else. On the top of the drawing we can see windows covered in cardboard. I don't say much about this in the story but sometimes after a loved one dies the people they left behind can't let go and decide they don't need to anymore and spend all their lives in front of a monitor talking to the dead. Their mental health deteriorates and they begin to fear the outside world finding only solace in the world inside the Lazarus Network. Most of the time they decide to kill themselves to be together with their loved ones. Others however snap out of this however still decide to commit suicide but unlike the others they do not wish to be uploaded. However Lazarus is an evil corporation so they upload citizens regardless of their consent (registration is a lie). So of the three windows in the the top the tow and the left represent the former while the last on the right belongs to the latter. "Do Not Upload" is a play on "Do Not Resuscitate" which means somebody does not wish to receive medical help in the case of an emergency where without it they would die. And that's about it.