Dear Esther Freewrite

In “Family History: Source Analysis in Gone Home” Richard Bell compares the two games we have played so far this semester: “Where Dear Esther invites the kind of textual analysis at which students of literature excel, Gone Home demands something more akin to source comparison.” What distinction is Bell drawing between these two games — between literature and history — and do you agree with his distinction? What similarities do you see between the two games?

Just take 10 minutes and freewrite a response to those questions as a post on your blog. Just sketch out your ideas as quickly as you can, following to whatever is interesting for you and getting your ideas down into a post. Add the tag “freewrite” to the post, as a signal to readers that it’s an unpolished and perhaps unfinished piece of writing.