This was the first wordless novel I have ever read. At first
I wasn’t sure how to approach it but after flipping through the pages briefly I
found that it was much more interesting to read a novel with no true script. I
took my time reading each panel and creating my own story. The style of
illustration made it very enjoyable to look through and read, how some pages
were one large illustration while others had a dozen or so small ones. In
particular one of my favorite pages was when the man was traveling on the boat,
Shaun showed the transition of time by illustrating over a dozen clouds on a
single page. I even like how he cheated and made his own language. It remained
a wordless novel because they weren’t really words; they were more like clues
that helped you understand the story more. Even though the creatures were
unrecognizable and the city was like nothing I have ever seen, I still knew
what the story was about, or at least I thought I did since I made me own
interpretation of it. The man left his family and home country and immigrated
to the new world where he lived alone and found jobs so he could save money for
his family to eventually come to the new world. It’s a story about overcoming a
new obstacle and in the end his family comes to live with him in the new world
and the very last image is his daughter teaching a new immigrant the language. I
felt that I have more of an appreciation for comics after reading this story
because this was like a true art in a comic form, and I really enjoyed the fact
that I could write my own script to go with the images so I could use my
imagination more.
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