Before attending this class
I had run into Shaun Tan’s, The Arrival. After going through it the first time
I found it interesting that there was no text, it caught me off guard, although
made me intrigued because I had never seen anything like it before. The
illustrations I thought were very precise and well done in order for us as the
viewer to understand what the story was about. The pictures provided are filled
with a lot of emotions one might feel when being foreign to new a country, I
feel like a lot of people can relate to this moving to America since it is a
melting pot of cultures and people from all over the world. The images provided
are so well done that even though they use fictional elements it is easy to
understand and still has as much of an impact or more than if it had words. The
technique used as well helps to set the mood for the story without using
color, and only relying on a value system. I thought the story had a positive
impact on the reader because we could relate, we have all been new to something
at some point in our lives and have felt all or some of the emotions portrayed
within the story.
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