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.
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