Description
This is my project on perspective for this year. Using perspective means looking through someone else's (or even your own) eyes and figuring out what might make them think, feel, or act a certain way. For English I looked at the perspectives of Shere Khan and Mowgli in The Jungle Book. For History I looked at why colonists during the British Raj hunted so many tigers. My art piece followed both of these.
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For art I made a watercolor illustration, featuring a tiger and a hunter facing each other at a clearing in the jungle. This piece is meant to show the perspective of both tiger and hunter. Man hunts beast, beast hunts man. I wanted to create a sort of circular composition that would almost make it look like we're looking from both sides. I also really wanted to get better at drawing animals because I really don't understand digitigrade legs.
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History
My history project was a brochure design that I made on Canva about the British Raj and the tiger hunts that went on throughout it. I wrote a contextual paragraph on the Raj to add some background info. I then wrote my perspective paragraph on why the colonists were doing all of this hunting. To be honest, I'm not particularly happy with this project since I don't think it shows perspective very well, however I do into the fact that hunting big game in India was a status symbol to both colonists and native Indians.
English
For my English project I read The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling and watched the 1967 Disney film adaptation. I then wrote an essay that analyzed the perspectives of both Shere Khan and Mowgli, and how they differ across these two adaptations. I got this idea because Shere Khan is definitely a villain, but in the movie, you can really understand where he's coming from with the right contextual info. I also do just really like him and all of the characters in The Jungle Book so I wanted to do a project on it.