Wednesday, January 18, 2012

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

The story I understood from The Arrival is someones journey to find a better place, the American dream. To me the thing that stuck out was the representation of the horors and the hard ships the people went through that made them migrate to that free place. I couldn't help make connection to WWII and the invasions of countries at that time. For example the giants with flame throwers destroying the town, which felt like it should have been Nazi tanks destroying the town instead. One of the things I thought was very clever on avoiding words in the novel, was making up his own representation of immigrate trying to learn a new language. With the use of symbols and than the main characters drawings in his journal to help show others what he needed.

The way the pictures are laid out is very similar to a story board, which is the back bone to the films and animation. Which I think made the readability and the understanding of the book easier on the readers. 

Thursday, January 12, 2012

CLASS UNO

ANALYZE

Pic one - A woman becoming free from her oppressor. Standing over a chicken or cock a male roaster. While her oppressor is laying at the bottom of the stairs.

Pic two - A woman represnting sleeping beauty or snow white figure in a slumber. But in stead of a prince
charming there is a big rooster man standing above her. To wake her up and make her slave.

Pic Three - A woman is dead and appears to be in a grave. Also a naked woman holding her clothes or a cloth is standing in the back. Showing she is the next girl to be a slave to The Man.

Pic Four - The woman finding her freedom, killing her self to escape her oppressor.

Pic Five - The cock man standing behind a book shelf where a woman had just hung her self. With another woman standing close by, but not in shock or fright when gazing upon the dead woman. Showing that she too is dead or she is dead on the inside.