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Although books full of words are more efficient in delivering and describing what the author feels, sometimes pictures can give a deep meaning depending on how they are organized. The Veil by Marjane Satrapi’s is a graphic novel that’s organized in a particular way, to deliver a certain message through the pictures. Marjane includes different sizes and frames that serve what she is thinking and feeling. Choosing certain sizes, frames and colours isn’t arbitrary. As each box increases in size, it means that she wants to emphasize the message behind that box, or show her relation to that particular text. Contrast is also one of the main elements that Marjane uses in her graphic novel. For example, on page five, there is a big picture of

The Disney Cruise Line also utilizes the rhetorical appeal of pathos in almost every one of their pictures to appeal to the reader’s emotions. Most of the pictures that are shown throughout the book contain elements that relate to people having a good time and smiling. For example the first page of the booklet shows several families gathered together to watch fireworks on the deck of the ship. This image appeals to the reader’s emotions as the reader sees several families having a good time and truly enjoying themselves. Seeing a large group of people so ecstatic, the reader cannot help but feel happy as well.

Vivid images can be found abundantly throughout the novel and helps to portray scenes to the point where the audience can actually imagine, smell, touch, and hear everything that is going on. “No matter how they scrubbed their hands, the residue of Red Hot Mama had a way of sticking round, as pesty and persistent as a chaperone at a high school dance.” (158). In some instances the audience can acquire a sense, based on the description whether the characters are self absorbed, considerate, or overly concerned about their appearance. “I ought to be shot for looking like this” she’d tell the mirror in the front hall before going out the door. “I look like I’ve been drug through hell backwards,” she would say on and ordinary day. “Like death warmed over. Like something the cat puked up.” (103). The emergence of the images presented in the novel can help present a better understanding and in some cases, a connection to one of the

The three separate panels share the same landscape which allows the figures to exist in the same pictorial space. This maintains an unbroken continuation of the landscape, which adds not only to the content within a single panel, but to the entire narrative of the triptych. Yet, each individual panel is also worthy of its own analysis and discussion.

In the short story, “Along the Frontage Road” by Michael Chabon, a father and son visit a pumpkin patch off a frontage road to escape from their home and problems. While at the pumpkin patch, the father reflects on how many situations in life are uncontrollable. The family had suffered the loss of their unborn daughter, and the father and son use their experience at the pumpkin patch to move on in life. Michael Chabon uses figurative language in the form of metaphors and similes, a depressing mood, flashbacks, and pumpkin symbolism in “Along the Frontage Road” to comment on hardships in life that people have no control over.

By using imagery throughout the book, the reader gets a better idea of what life was like through Jeanette's eyes.

Jewett makes great use of imagery to help the audience imagine the setting in its complete

The main character Matt, along with his wife and children, had to deal with the death of one of his sons Frank. At the beginning of the story, Matt seems to have an unbearable amount of grief, stress, and pressure. Most of this is caused by his wife who seems to not want her son's killer out walking the streets. By the end of the story, Matt had killed Strout, his son’s killer, and the last line was “he shuddered with a sob that he kept silent in his heart” (Dubus 74). This line alludes that Matt ended up worse than when he started, almost to the point where he has more guilt and regrets what he did. In addition to character development, Dubus uses imagery as well. The descriptive words in this short story allow the reader to get into the scenes with the characters, and to feel what the characters felt. In the midst of one of the flashbacks, Dubus sets up the scene very well, and makes the reader feel like they are there. For example, “They were sitting on the living room floor watching television, Frank sitting on the couch, and Mary Ann just returning from the kitchen with a tray of sandwiches” (Dubus 65). This set up the scene before Strout came in and shot Frank, and Dubus uses this continuously throughout the story. The imagery used allows you to have the possibility to understand why the killers

The use of imagery helps us paint a picture of a situation in which Van Helsing may have had to follow his instincts. For instance,

Without imagery in “The Most Dangerous Game,” the setting wouldn’t be nearly as powerful. The imagery allows readers to better understand how difficult it is for Rainsford to navigate the terrain. At the beginning of the story, the narrator uses imagery to describe the island: “dense jungle came down to the very edge of the cliffs. What perils that tangle of trees and underbrush might hold for him did not concern Rainsford just Then” (Connell). The imagery is very effective in this scene because the narrator uses words such as “dense” and “tangle,” which clearly illustrate how hard it is to navigate the terrain. The imagery also allows readers to picture General Zaroff’s mansion. The narrator describes what Rainsford sees when he comes across the mansion: “but as he forged along he saw to his great astonishment that all the lights were in one enormous building--a lofty structure with pointed towers plunging upward into the gloom. His eyes made out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau; it was set on a high bluff, and on three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows” (Connell). By using words such as “lofty” and “enormous,” readers are better able to picture what the mansion looks like. Therefore, imagery is one of the reasons why “The Most Dangerous Game” is a successful short story because it enables readers to picture the setting, which is very important to the plot.

Different forms of art are evident throughout the novel and are used as a way to help characters take their minds off of the world around them. The most apparent example of this is the

To illustrate, director often uses red details in scenes to symbolise danger, small things such as a scarf on Dr Sattler’s neck in the beginning of the film. These tiny details indicated the audience about danger and builds a fearful mood. In addition, the weight of the evidence suggest that, colours and lights can make any situation appealing and horrifying.

Visual imagery is often the first step to subconsciously sending the reader into a parallel state of mind as the protagonist, and letting them experience what the characters experienced throughout the story. The visuals used in the beginning of this story convince readers that they have been placed in a safe, secure environment, therefore having a positive effect on readers when they

The author uses imagery to interest the reader in her story that may seem mundane without the imagery. An example of this happening is when Jeannette is going to her new school in Welch it was her first day and the teacher picks on her because she did not have to give the school her records to her not having them as that is happening a tall girl stabs her out of nowhere“I felt something sharp and painful between my shoulder blades and turned around. The tall black girl with the almond eyes was sitting at the desk behind me.

In her comic-style article you can see there is a lot of visuals as you go through the reading. The visuals throughout the article helps the readers get her ideas more clearly than a regular article with no images. For example, on the first page of the article she talks about homophily and even though she gives the definition before the word, the picture of her in a flock of birds can help the reader understand and visually see that homophily means the groups we associate ourselves that have similar views to us. Not only do the visuals help the reader understand her argument but it also makes the reader look more