The History of Louis Riel in Chester Brown’s “Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography” and in Sarah Ovcjak’s “The Facebook Profile of Louis Riel”

Composers of texts present a biased attitude to the events, personalities or situations represented. In various texts such as Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” and Leunig’s cartoon “Yet another picture with the wrong caption”, the composers bias is evident even though conflicting perspectives towards the personality are presented.

On November 16 1885, 41 year-old Metis father Louis David Riel passed away at 8:00am(CTZ) .After a long battle in court, he was sentenced to execution for treason which led him to be hung in Regina, Saskatchewan.

“The story is told through the photographs, and so what may appear to be autobiographical is not always so. On the other hand, many of the events are completely fictional, although they may be true in a historical context. For some of these events, there are photographs; for others, the image is a collage; and in all cases, the result is entirely of my doing. So although it may appear that these stories are my family’s, they are not precisely, and yet they are. (xi)”

An author’s construction of the protagonist/s creates as compelling method to demonstrate the tension between an individual’s values and wider society’s intolerance. Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (2000), an autobiographical graphic novel, and Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird (1960), a traditional prose-fiction novel, use similar techniques to draw connections to the conflict between the two worlds, despite the two different textual forms. As Satrapi and Lee depict characters struggling to mediate between their individual progressive ideologies and society’s discriminatory dogmas, both texts ultimately present the irreconcilable nature of the divide between the personal and public. As such, the audience is able to establish a range of connections when both texts are considered together, through the confliction between the opposing public ethics and individual ideologies.

Hello, and welcome to Canada Uncovered. In this series, we’ll be exploring Canadian history by altering key events to examine the effects; asking “why” the foundations of our country, such as the house of commons and the senate, exist, and how they came to be; and comparing our behavior today to the actions of the past. But tonight, a man plays a guitar in the dark, I look at a llama, and we waste time on Twitter when we are supposed to be presenting this programme!

Talking about a very important person in history, Louis David Riel. Was Louis David Riel guilty or was he not guilty? Louis David Riel should be proved not guilty in the case of treason. If the government had kept their promises to the Meets and I, about the supplies that were promised to us. Treason is a crime of betraying one’s country.

The 19th Century was a time of rapid transformation in Canada. Native people had ended their nomadic ways of life. As the buffalo population had almost become extinct, people were forced to adapt to a new way of life based on agriculture. The railway also brought an increasing number of white settlers to the west. The Métis had difficulty adjusting to these new conditions, and felt ignored by the Ottawa government. This created a dispute between the Métis and the Canadian government. Métis leader, Louis Riel was an instrumental figure in preserving the Métis way of life against John A Macdonald. Louis Riel, fought for Métis rights, was the Father of Manitoba, and was elected three times to the House of Commons, and therefore should be bestowed

Louis Riel was a national hero, especially to the Métis of Canada. He defended his people, the Métis, and their rights by creating Le Comité National des Métis and the provisional government at Fort Garry. He showed the Canadian government that he is not a joke with the execution of Thomas Scott. He contributed to the creation and government placed in Manitoba with the Manitoba Act. And he also left, coming back with a new view and to attempt a peaceful negotiation.

Louis Riel, a controversial man who ponders around Canada’s mind & judgement today, some may call him a traitor but for the most in fact he was a hero. He was one of the founding fathers that embraced and shaped our country to what we are today and not only that, he was a fighter that stood up for what he believed in and what he knew was best for the people because simply he cared about them. Although, at times his reasons were faulty, his selfless acts were far more recognizable than his prevailing mistakes that led him to execution in 1885 as he was judged “guilty” of alleged accusations of an unfair court of whom did not favour him.

Art Spiegelman’s Maus, is a unique way of looking at history. Through the use of comics, Spiegelman allows the reader to draw their own conclusions within the parameters of the panes of the comic. Unlike reading a textbook in which the author describes every detail about the subject matter, comics allow for the reader to draw their own conclusions from the information given to them. Also by reading a serious comic such as Maus, we are able to break away from

The secrets of the past have a way of shaping many lives. Griffin`s essay focuses on the idea of secrets by using various techniques to address this topic. Her essay uses an objective and indirect approach to guide the reader to translate the moments she records. Griffin does this by interviewing people to discover the past, providing descriptive reports of illustrations to promote a visual perspective, and ultimately the paintings are used to make the reader analyze their purpose. These methods are valuable because it promotes critical thinking and different points of views to tell the story.

“Satrapi’s Persepolis appeared, significantly, at a time when memoirs have been experiencing a great surge of popularity.” (Malek, 2006: 8) The time of the publication of the memoir deemed critical to its success. It was published around the time where graphic novels were coined “the most important narrative mode of our contemporary culture.” (Miller, 2000: 421) It shared the lime light with other graphic novels, the likes of Craig Thompson’s “Blankets” and Joe Sacco’s “The Fixer”. (Time, 2003) Satrapi chose the perfect time to debut her graphic memoir as she was able to ride ‘the literary high’ comics were experiencing at that point in time. A

Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a famous, Pulitzer Prize winning tale about the journey of a Jewish Holocaust survivor. Despite the amount of similar storylines, Spiegelman’s creativity with the normal elements of comics has won him high praise. This analysis will focus on Spiegelman’s unique twist on icons, layouts, diegesis, abstraction, and encapsulation as displayed by Maus.

A graphic novel consists of both a narrative and its accompanying illustrations, which are capable of providing insight through a collection of images. Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical novel, Persepolis (2003), is a collection of her comic-strip memoirs, written and illustrated by Satrapi herself. Persepolis tells the story of Marjane’s growing up and coming of age in Iran’s capital, Tehran, during the Islamic Revolution. It is a story filled with noticeable moments, all of which are supported by the artwork Satrapi has decided to include. Further analysis of Satrapi’s artistic decisions reveals her choice to include symbols that often represent Marjane’s emotions. Objects such as mirrors and the use of body language in certain characters,

Since the start of his professional career, LaChapelle's work has attracted the attention of many other artists, celebrities, journalists, and regular people. I first noticed his work on advertisements in magazines several years ago. I immediately felt drawn to his images- they are photographs I could stare at for hours, playing out in my head the story each photograph is telling and what it says about the character