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Exploratory Essay Meme: Invention Work

This invention work is a drawing of what ideas I wanted my meme to clearly portray. I based it off the end claim that I expressed in my exploratory essay. My end claim was that "kids who have struggled in terms of economy, culture, and family dynamics, a mindset is simply a band-aid on a gunshot wound" ("Mind over Bias" Linch). 




Explanation

           My natural train of though was to somehow incorporate a teaching figure telling her student to have a "mind over matter" type of mindset. But as you can see the child is having trouble overcoming the fact that her parents are getting a divorce with a simple mindset change. The child is having trouble overcoming the fact that nowadays being an immigrant is being used as a cultural slur rather than a triumph. Although I didn't use this exact template for the final product, my polished meme communicates the same message in a much more minimalistic, yet more powerful way. 



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