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Well, I missed the first class, and also don't seem to be added to the Blackboard list, and thus, I can't find the Freedman essay to read it. Is it uploaded here somewhere?

As to the pictures, the first image looks like a lot of arched doorways, to me. Some are crooked, and they're all different colors, which seems to suggest they each lead to someplace different, depending on which one you choose to pass through. That could be a way of saying that the genre you choose to create in/write for affects where you will end up. The same basic storyline told through different genres will achieve different effects.

 The second picture appears, in my mind, to address the result of that choice between genres, rather than the choice itself. It depicts the deeper idea or theory of the story as a flower and butterfly emerging from the writing, in the midst of an otherwise dry/idea-less landscape. But that's just my interpretation of it.