The (blog) story of Chanie Wenjack

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 the advantages and disadvantages of blogging as a medium by 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. 

Downie, Gordon, and Jeff Lemire. Secret Path. , 2016. Print.