This situation was about the empty space on the train. It’s called a situation because it’s something that happens to a lot of people. Many people can relate to this. There can be good situations and there can be bad situations. In this case it was about the empty seat on the train. 

The moving images match with the text of the book. Whenever she would talk about the darkness or the silence in the text there would be darkness in the movie. The images and text would match up and it really helped me understand more about what this situation was. When she talks about empty space I feel like it’s the topics or conversations we avoid talking about.  This empty space and this darkness is sort of awkward. You see that empty seat on the train but people start looking at you and judging you. They see you and make it very clear that you shouldn’t sit there and they just want to be alone. Maybe the people don’t actually feel that way but the facial expressions show that. 

This relates to rankies other stories in the text because she talks a lot about invisibility and this situation kinda reminds me of that. The way the people were being treated in this situation was if they were invisible and people didn’t care about how they felt. In this situation, Rankie was talking about a moment in which a woman on the train asked to switch seats with a man so she can sit next to her kid. The man looks at Rankie and basically asks without saying anything that she should get up. Its as if her opinion doesn’t matter. It would be nicer to politely ask the other person if they would get up but it’s rude since the lady asked the man and he ignored. In Rankies other text she talk about when she was in school and how a girl used to cheat off of her. She wondered if the teacher ever noticed their answers were the same and if she didn’t was it because she was not seen by the teacher. Or in another text she talk about a boy who was pushed and shoved by a man who just kept walking by and didn’t say anything. She wondered if it was because they were not seen. 

Overall I feel like reading the text and watching the film separately did help me understand it better. I felt like the images were very clear in conveying the message to the viewers.

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