Imagination Activity - Listen and Draw

In today's TOK class, we did an activity about imagination in an effort to associate with the article we'd read last night. The activity basically was Ms. Yorke telling us a story about a mythical animal that has multiple arms and legs and lives in the paradise island, one day she picked up a young boy who was survived from a shipwreck, then they become best friends. However, one day there is a plane to rescue the boy, so the boy is in a dilemma of staying or leaving.

Next, Ms. Yorke asked us to draw a picture of what remains in our memory about the story, as a justification of how imagination works.

This is what I have drew in fifteen minutes, as presented, I merely recorded the most unforgettable scene in my mind which was " There was a mysterious animal in the depth of forest."

Even though it was not a perfect drawing, but I tried my best to recall the background and the construction of the scene. Judging from this activity, I discovered that imagination is often on the basis of past experience and subjective inclination. When I was young, I was exposed to plenty of fairy tales and similar stories, they were so ingrained in my brain that once I hear some story I automatically relate it to the fairy tales I learned back then. Secondly, I used my personal judgement for the story at the very beginning, I took it for granted that this kind of stories are all childish and gay.Ultimately, my drawing ended up like above, it was a silly invaluable piece of work whereas it could address some many questions and inquiries.

After today's activity, I realized how amazing and intriguing imagination is as a way of knowing and as an indispensable portion of our life.