When reading a comic, we often become immersed in the world being created before our eyes, but often we take the comic for its face value and refuse to look deeper. Details of a comic reveal to us a deeper meaning, stripping back the façade and showing how depth and feeling are created. The use of technical elements such as lines, gutters, and shading work in conjunction to add time and motion to the panel as well. In Herr Lehmann by Tim Dinter, based of the novel Berlin Blues by Sven Regener, two panels were evaluated for how their details added more to the story and how personal and external perspective helped to colour the scenes. To fully tease apart the details of the panels context of where they are located in the story is necessary. The first panel to be evaluated is on page 99. Prior to this panel the main character, Herr Lehmann, his date Katrin, and his friend Karl have arrived at a gay bar for drinks when they are refused service. The owner of the bar insults Katrin and Herr Lehmann fights back punching him first and eventually biting him as hard as he can on the hand. On page 99 we see the confrontation and the bite as it is happening as well as them group running out of the bar. The …show more content…
Here the gutters are present but used to divide an otherwise whole picture. While it seems unnecessary the gutters act to structure the image and draw attention to the details. This allows the panel to feel less static but it also provides a sense of alienation to the reader as the format of the gutters looks like you are viewing the scene through a window. Contrary to page 99 where the eye was drawn to several focal points at once, here there is no one area or person that draws the readers attention. Therefore, adding the gutters creates structure; the panel is separated into manageable pieces that can be evaluated rather than a full picture that would otherwise be
Before 1882, the United States did not have any immigration rules which means anybody that came to America has the opportunity to stay here. The attitude of Americans toward immigrants has changed which transported the Chinese immigration act “into national prominence” (Daniel, 11). However, the Americans are now afraid of the immigrants due to their overpopulation. Half of the Americans rejected the immigrant’s presence, while the other half profits of their cheap labor. In this book “Guarding the Golden Door by Roger Daniels” heavily discovered over the one and only issue of how the immigrants are being treated in America.
When one actually close-reads a small segment one realizes the large amount of information that can be said about just that segment. In this case it was only four pages from Fun Home, and each page seemed to have a life of its own. Page 14 touched upon the relationship between Bruce Bechdel and his family, while page fifteen gave insights into the father-daughter relationship. Then pages 16 and 17 dealt with hidden truths and the creation of false appearances. Then there were the the literary and graphical devices: the extensive use of line, the use of gray shading, stretched panels vs. compact panels, interdependent word-picture relationships, etc. the clear illustrations and relatively simple prose made the process a bit easier, but that opinion may have been different if the process involved close-reading the whole book.
James W. Loewen wrote the book “Lies My Teacher Told Me” to help students understand the past of the United States, and how it is effecting the present time. “Lies My Teacher Told Me” looks at 12 different American history textbooks, and points out the different lies, flaws, and sugar coated stories the textbooks present. Lowen explains how textbooks practice heroification, and how race and race relations are a major issue when it comes to American history. Among these topics, Lowen also sheds light on the truth about social classes in America, and how textbooks lie about the past and try to avoid the recent past all together.
Frederick “Fritz” Pollard, the first African American to ever play in the Rose Bowl and the first African American to ever coach an NFL team, changed the history of football and America while enduring different racial criticism. Pollard faced many difficulties throughout his childhood and adulthood. Pollard was not like the typical “black star” of the 1890-1910 time period. Pollard was raised in a nice home, instead of the “ghetto”, and was able to acquire higher education than that of the average African-American child of his time period. Pollard was racially criticized throughout his amateur and professional life. One incident being the time Pollard got into an argument with a child on whether or not he was a football player, “There I was,
Gilman, Charlotte. "The Yellow Wallpaper." Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. Ed. Edgar Roberts and Robert Zweig. New York: Longman, 2011. 419-428.Print.
All through the story the yellow wallpaper acts as an antagonist causing her to become very annoyed and disturbed. There is nothing to do in the secluded room but stare at the wallpaper. The narrator tells of the haphazard pattern having no organization or symmetrical plot. Her constant examination of and reflection o...
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, William Cain. Literature for Composition. 2011. 746-756.
Rena Korb An overview of The Yellow Wallpaper, in Exploring Short Stories, Gale Research, 1998.
When comics were first coming out, they were not all that popular but in todays’ world, they have become very popular and well known. Several of these comics have been turned into films, which is one of the many reasons why the popularity has been rising over the years. One of the most well known comics is Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. This comic was composed and released in 1986 by Frank Miller. With the usage of Frank Miller’s powerful, intense lines and the artwork done by Klaus Janson’s and Lynn Varley’s it has elevated this comic up to the very top of mainstream comics. In Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, the skillful illustrations on the pages successfully create the thought that there are underlying meanings, which makes the atmosphere a very intense one throughout the comic. The work of art that is presented on the pages in this comic are embedded in such a way that the pages become the continuum for the meaning. One of the main themes that are imbedded on the pages through the artwork in this book is the ideological struggle between Bruce Wayne and Batman.
The visual description of a text is the perfect way to wrap the reader’s senses into the story.
The short story titled, “The Yellow Wallpaper” is given its name for no other reason than the disturbing yellow wallpaper that the narrator comes to hate so much; it also plays as a significant symbol in the story. The wallpaper itself can represent many various ideas and circumstances, and among them, the sense of feeling trapped, the impulse of creativity gone awry, and what was supposed to be a simple distraction transfigures into an unhealthy obsession. By examining the continuous references to the yellow wallpaper itself, one can begin to notice how their frequency develops the plot throughout the course of the story. As well as giving the reader an understanding as to why the wallpaper is a more adequate and appropriate symbol to represent the lady’s confinement and the deterioration of her mental and emotional health. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the color of the wallpaper symbolizes the internal and external conflicts of the narrator that reflect the expectations and treatment of the narrator, as well as represent the sense of being controlled in addition to the feeling of being trapped.
David Lurie was one of the most contrasting characters I’ve ever read about. He’s been through so many rough obstacles in his life. In the novel, “Disgrace”, by J.M Coetzee, Lurie goes from prostitutes to sexual charges to nearly dying and finding out his daughter's been raped. It's safe to say he has been through hell and back. He experiences drastic changes when adjusting to different environments throughout the novel. Does this mean he changes as a person? I do believe David Lurie does change when it comes to his personal character. By looking at quotations from the novel, you can get an idea of the change of character that occurred to Lurie.
Throughout the era in which “The Yellow Wallpaper” was first published, readers were overwhelmed by Gilman’s descriptive writing style, even adding it to the lis...
Throughout time the way we visualize things has changed. When the Brothers Grimm’s created “Little Snow White” in 1812 they did not have any way to visually show their ideas to the public. They could not just make a movie or hire an illustrator to bring life to their words. So instead they relied on their readers to use their own imagination to create the characters and scenarios throughout the s...
The gutter is the space in between panels where human imagination is highly depended on to comprehend the panels. “Here in the limbo of the gutter, human imagination takes two separate images and transforms them into a single idea” (McCloud 63). This quote from Understanding Comics shows how important the gutter is to understanding the story. Many authors use this to aid to the mystery and creativity of comics. For example in the book Blankets by Craig Thompson the gutter is used many times. On page 243 Craig and Raina are walking outside in one panel, then the next panel is a car driving away. The gutter is in between these two panels, so the reader is supposed to understand that they were the ones driving the car. The reader is supposed to imagine the characters walking to the car and into