Brainstorming my Media Literacy Autobiography

I am struggling with the protagonist in this story. I feel like I kind of just stumbled into this story only being aware of media literacy as I went through this class. Now that I am aware of it I certainly feel it is my duty to stomp out negative media and help others fight through its meanings. 

I have never been affected by media as I look back on my answers for this assignment. I always enjoy looking at it, using my imagination, creating the story, but if I didn't like it or got tired of it, I just turned it off, turned the page or walked away moving my focus to something else. So media has been more of an entertainment or escape for me. Never once did I think that wasn't what everyone else did.  I remember looking at pictures as a child and hearing, smelling and feeling everything in it. I didn't realize other people didn't do that until I had teenage children. I received a 2’x 4’ picture as a Christmas gift one year. It is one of my favorite pictures. It hangs above the stairs in every house we live in. I can sit on the stairs and look at it and become one with it. One day my teenage daughter saw me doing this and asked why I was looking at that picture that way. As I described what I was doing my youngest daughter joined in. 

My husband found the three of us like that and asked, “What in the world are you all doing?” 

We all three described it and he looked at the picture and said, "Hhmmm . . . nope, I don't hear it." As he moved down the hallway we looked at each other in awe. I believe him. Both my daughters have inquired with friends about this situation and realize that they have a special gift that not all people have or use. 

I still have the same strong reaction to at least three of the quotes I listed in my blog this semester. I now have new examples to use in support of my reactions. 

I have narrowed down my choices of Protagonist to a grasshopper -  because that is the way I think I started this journey, a detective - because I have had to gather information (or clues) in the process, and a hero - because I want to teach others how to overcome negative media.