CreatuRose

To Creature,

                Your story has reminded me of that of an origami rose.

11)      Start by folding the origami bird base 

The base for your story unfortunately starts with me and my unfettered hunger for knowledge. I had erroneously thought I was free from your hideousness when you had run away and was quite frightened when you had asked me to listen to your story.

22)      Fold the top layer from right to left

Just as this step sets up the folds that follow, you have constructed your struggle in the first few days to set up what you ask of me. You told me of each sense, such as touch and sight, that you had to become accustomed to without me. What I experience every day and take for granted, you had to learn to adjust to it.   

33)      Fold up the bottom tip

44)      Flip paper over repeating steps 2 and 3

55)      Fold the top layer from right to left

66)      Fold up the bottom tip

77)      Fold down the top tip

After adjusting to your surroundings, you traveled to the old man’s hut and experienced the harsh nature of mankind. It was not your fault for being created, yet the man judged you only by your looks like many men you continued to meet, even when you meant no harm. You escaped to a cave where you met your protectors and obtained happiness from them when observing their daily activities, setting up the question you want to ask me even further.  

88)      Fold Point A-B to A-C (picture) and Repeat steps for other 3 sides

As you began to learn how to speak from the protectors teaching the Arabian you began to realize the same thing I have realized about knowledge, an idea that repeats again and again. The knowledge you have learned about yourself and being a monster has caused you to hate yourself and your creator. You have realized how much of an outcast you really are.

99)      Flip the paper over and fold all 4 tips to the center and Flip paper over again

Many times you have realized that ignorance might be better, that knowledge can be painful and do more harm than good, much like how my knowledge of creating life has done more harm to me than good. Many times you have also compared God to the humans and me to you. I realize that I am not God. God creates life that is beautiful, while I have created a monster.

1 10)   Hold the Rose in one hand and use your other hand to twist the paper and Use a pen or a circular object to twirl the petals and finish the rose.

Similar to the nature of a rose, your story is one that is mostly beautiful but also tragic. You have been friendly to mankind and they have only treated you as a monster you think yourself to be. You seek to be loved. Yet, despite your story and kind gestures to your protectors that I can sympathize with you for, there are still thorns in your rose. Out of your hatred for mankind and their treatment towards you, you have killed my brother and have caused another innocent soul to die to take the punishment for your crime. I feel it is my duty to make it up to you and the harm I have caused you by abandoning you; however, at the same time, I cannot forgive you for your crimes.

Perhaps, I can use my horrid knowledge one more time to save mankind.

Sincerely,

                 Your Creator. 

Ninja Stars and A & P

Origami ninja stars are normally two contrasting colors. In the story of A & P, there are two different “colors” or characters, Sammy and the three girls. The ninja stars start off as two separate sheets; the two pieces of paper seem to have no connection with each other. Similarly, the characters in the short story, are not related other than the fact that they are all in the A & P store at the same time. Throughout the short story, Sammy starts describing the girls and their bathing suits, saying “she was the queen...long white prima donna legs.” He instantly characterizes the three girls and seems to judge them solely on their looks. He objectifies the three girls, but the girls seem to feel that because of this and their gender, they have power over the men in the room, which is shown through their nonchalant walking.

But what does this have to do with ninja stars? What’s the point? How are Sammy and the three girls related?

Well, Sammy’s manager, Lengel, stops the three girls and asks them to leave due to their bathing suits not following the store’s rules, and they leave hurriedly. Sammy then quickly says that he quits because Lengel was “embarrass[ing] them.” He then continues to say that the “world was going to be” hard to him, implying that according to societal norms he should not have supported the three girls and that his actions are more important than the actions of three girls.

To conclude, this is where the two separate sheets form the one ninja star. The three girls had impacted Sammy and had caused him to quit his job, connecting the three girls directly to Sammy. However, whereas the two sheets stay together in a ninja star, the three characters and Sammy do not. In fact, he looks around for the three girls, “but they’re gone.” Furthermore, the ninja star itself can be seen as powerful and used as a weapon, which also relates to Sammy; his actions have more of an impact according to him, probably because he is a male, that it will cause the world to be harsh to him.

 

Frankencrane

To Victor Frankenstein, My Creator:

     You have followed a path similar to creating a paper crane.

1)      Start by folding the bird base

As a young child you built up a base for your hunger for knowledge, learning from books such as Cornelius Agrippa’s. You treated them as treasures and took in as much as you could.  

2)      Crease both lower “legs” of the bird base, in preparation for reverse folds to create the body

Then at the age of seventeen, you have embarked on a journey to gain mastery in your interests by attending the University of Ingolstadt, the catalyst of your preparation for creating me. The teachers have told you that you will be successful and have showed you machines you can use in the future, a day that decided your “future destiny.”

3)      Open up the leg and bring the paper inward and then upward, repeat this with the other side

            As you continued your progress with your “scientific pursuit,” you gained new information, information that peculiarly attracted you. You began to ask questions about the human body and how life was made.  You studied all aspects of this and were almost complete in your creation.   

4)      Make a reverse fold for the head of the bird and then fold the wings down

            Alas, you made it. You collected all your materials to create me and now all it took was one spark. What you set out to do had finally happened. I had come alive, and when I opened my eyes, you ran away.

5)      Hold the tail and the spot below the wings to flap the bird.

            But my creator, one difference from this bird and me is that this bird had its creator to flap its wings, but my creator had run away, leaving me alone to survive in this harsh world with no support. If my creator cannot love me, then who can. Did you not think of my emotions?  I leave immediately knowing that you do not wish to look at me anymore.
           You have not thought of the consequences of your actions.

From,

         The Creature