What medium for Chanie's story?

Like in any form of art, telling a story wants to elicit a response from its intended audience. There are many ways in which the story can be told: traditional ways such as novels, plays, or poetry or newer media such as blogs, vlogs, podcasts. Depending on the media used in telling the story, its message can be perceived in different ways. I will illustrate some examples using the story of Chanie Wenjack as told in Secret Path, a song album by Gord Downie with a graphic novel by Jeff Lemire. Chanie Wenjack is a boy who escapes a residential school in Canada in 1966 and tragically dies trying to get home. 

To start off, it would be hard to use only a blog as the medium to tell the story from “Secret Path”. A blog has a shorter format than the other media, and you cannot tell a story with a lot of detail. However, a blog can be engaging, if written in language which is accessible, appropriate to the topic, and engaging for the audience.

Blogs are short, but mighty. One way to add more information to a blog, for instance, is by inserting links to sites which contain related relevant information. Here is a link to the “Secret Path” project. Or you can insert youtube video with the parts that you found most haunting.