Interpreting A Graphic Novel

Quitely’s graphic novel WE3 is different from all of the other works of literature we have read because it uses a great amount of visual imagery to portray the story to the reader as opposed to words like most novels. Graphic novels require the reader to interpret the images based on the imagery that the author/illustrator creates. This type of literature presses the reader to employ deep critical thinking and imagination to figure out what the story is supposed to mean to them. Although this novel is relatively

pages. In affect, it typically takes me several different days and time blocks to complete the book. Because Invisible People is a graphic novel, I was able to not only easily keep my attention on the story, but also genuinely enjoy the plot. I sat down during a rainy day and read the whole novel in under an hour. Being provided pictures and drawings while I read a novel helps me connect with what is going on and allows me to metaphorically put myself in the story. The main problem with The Things

Persepolis, Satrapi uses graphic novels as a way to demonstrate to the western culture how the east has been misrepresented. The use of media helps to depict to the west how their views of the east may have been unfairly formed in the past. The media has only revealed limited knowledge that only shows partial perspectives because it is difficult to get perspectives of the minorities although they are the ones who hold the most truth. In other words the use of graphic novels and a child’s perspective

People have always enjoyed graphic novels for as long as they have been around. They have been used to spread around an important message, politic viewpoints, explore new ideas in literature, and expose different styles of art to people around the world. There are many genres, graphic novels can fall into, but a large majority of them will always be fiction because then the authors can expand more into their stories than they can with non-fiction. “Today, images still have the power to elicit a

Vladimir Nabokov’s provocative novel, Lolita, chronicles literature professor Humbert Humbert’s spiral into madness following his perverse infatuation with his landlady’s daughter. This novel was published in 1955 during the post-war period in America, whereby women were forced out of professional roles in order to undertake domestic duties. Nabokov was likely influenced to explore the male-dominant attitudes of this time through his construction of Humbert’s misogynistic perspective. On trial for

family were all being killed and forced to work against their will for the Nazi’s. While many people were affected, not all of them were able to fully explain how hurt they were as it was something that was not easy to talk about for them. In a graphic novel called Maus, the author Art Spiegelman is trying to connect to his father and understand the hardships he went through during a hard time called the Holocaust. The author starts to talk about the Holocaust with his father and starts to learn how

left a mark on the Surrealist movement through their use of painting and collage. Dali’s painting The Persistence of Memory (1931), creates unfamiliar contexts with the use of illusions and realism. Ernst’s Surrealistic novel Une Semaine de Bonte (1934), is a purely graphic collage novel stemming from the influences of alchemy and metamorphosis. Surrealist aesthetics were a vital part of the movement and the artists themselves strongly lived by them. The founder of Surrealism was André Breton; a French

there is more eye-grabbing graphics. With more books containing images and more fiction, the idea of books being used for entertainment purposes only appears. Books were not created to be just to be used for enjoyment, but for ideas, formulas, life lessons, world problems, the human condition, and to be learned from.            Kieth Oatley (a professor on cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto) stated that when text is

like computed tomography (CT), single photon emission tomography (SPET), and positron emission tomography (PET) scans within a short time span. However, it wasn’t until 1959, when Singer, a faculty at the University of California-Berkeley, proposed a novel concept implying that NMR can be applied to create a

Misconceptions in an English Classroom As the great Hannah Montana once said in her hit song “Nobody’s Perfect”, “Everybody makes mistakes / Everybody has those days.” These lyrics relate to the fact that, since nobody is perfect, everybody has misunderstandings – this is especially true in a school environment. When thinking about the misunderstandings that can occur in an English class, many people will often think of grammar and writing related misunderstandings, which are fairly common, but some