{"id":618,"date":"2020-03-03T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/elizabethlin\/?p=618"},"modified":"2020-03-03T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T19:39:03","slug":"final-project-graphic-novel-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/elizabethlin\/2020\/03\/03\/final-project-graphic-novel-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Project: Graphic Novel Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For my final project, I want to do an essay about Are you listening? <\/em>by Tillie Walden. It is about two girls who are running away from their own separate past traumas. Combine it with a surreal road trip, a magical cat, and West Texas, and you have the premise of the book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though the story and plot can be very confusing at times with twists and turns in their journey that may not make sense at first glance, it is important to note that the main theme of the book is human connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I first fell in love with the book with the amazing art style and colours, but as I reread parts and looked back at scenes, I am certain that the book’s plot is irrelevant to the story and that the main focus should be on the two characters. Almost nothing is known about them as individuals but the way they interact and develop a relationship from strangers to friends is worth delving into and looking further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The story is supposed to be about their trauma and why they are running away from their hometown in the first place, but Walden only briefly touches upon each of these issues, almost like we, the readers, are as much as strangers as they are to each other. This lack of information is consistent throughout the entire book and in the end, when they part from each other to go on their own journey, as what was planned before they met each other, it is bittersweet. It feels like there could be something more to their relationship and yet, there isn’t. They shed tears for each other but leave with hopes for the other. Sometimes human connections aren’t linear. Sometimes we meet people in life, leave, and then see each other again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Example of the amazing art style and colours<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For my essay, I want to delve further into how Tillie Walden uses technical skills to create a comic book that is rich in action, but also emotion in the panels. The environment defines much of the mood and tone of the scene and she uses colours to her advantage, sucking out warm tones in times of despair and using bright colours to highlight emotionally positive or exciting events. She uses panels in a large variety, often switching them up in shapes or with a lack of to move the story along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think that this will be an interesting reread and analysis where I hope to find more gems Walden has buried in the pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my final project, I want to do an essay about Are you listening? by Tillie Walden. It is about two girls who are running away from their own separate past traumas. Combine it with a surreal road trip, a magical cat, and West Texas, and you have the premise of the book. Even though … <\/p>\n

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