Thursday, July 9, 2009
Group 1 - Page 156
Pedro has just passed away. In the previous panel, the nurses had come in and discovered this. His breathing had become weak, so everyone knew the end was coming soon. All the people that had been in the hospital with him are now standing surrounding his bed. In the following panels, Judd is hit hard when he realizes how quickly Pedro has slipped away from them. A lot of the feeling that comes with this panel is actually from what is outside of it. The small panel makes it feel like you are looking down into the hospital room from the ceiling. The rest of both pages are completely black. It gives the panel a very cold, isolated, and sad feeling. There are no words in or around this panel. Considering what has just happened, the blackness speaks louder than words. The reader is feeling sad and vulnerable, much like the characters in the panel. The actual drawing itself is not very detailed; faces are not clear, nor are the background images. A symbol in the panel is the people surrounding Pedro. Throughout his life, he was always surrounded by people who loved him. For example, his father or any family never out casted him for being gay, or having AIDS. Pedro Zamora lived a short life, but touched the hearts of many.
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I think you did a great job on this piece. It has a lot of detail about the picture. I especially like what you said about the picture in black, and the feelings it gave. I feel the same way. I was just wondering if we are to give cites for this.
ReplyDeleteThat was an extremely powerful panel for me as well. It does make one feel as if they are looking into a deep pit of despair and sadness. I am wondering if you should have sited the book, writer, and page number at all; even though it is just a paragraph. Great description of the panel, it gave me chills just reading your description.
ReplyDeleteI think this panel made the biggest visual impact of the entire book. It almost looks like we are looking down on them from a bird's eye view. One thing I found interesting was the size of the panel. Is it small because this event, his death, was the final chapter of his suffering? I thought your analysis was well worded and detailed. There are different emotions that can be felt while viewing this panel, and you provided most of them. The best part of your analysis was how the black was used in the page to describe the sadness. Great observation.
ReplyDeleteI think this is quite good. I like the way that you pay attention to the blackness, the people in the room, and the message of the panel. I also like the way that you contextualize this panel in terms of others within the story itself; you explain how it's important in relation to the rest of the story. Nicely done.
ReplyDeleteYour group did a wonderful job of painting a picture of this panel for me. When I read some of the other groups, I couldn't tell exactly which panel they were talking about, but I know the exact panel you guys are speaking of. This is a panel of much importance and I'm glad you depicted it well. nice Job!
ReplyDeleteThis is a nice analysis of this panel. It is a very powerful part in the story. I like how you point out that it makes the reader feel vulnerable. You give very good descriptions, full with feelings and emotions. You are very correct in the use of color, making the panel feel isolated and cold. Great analysis all together!
ReplyDeleteYour group did a very good job of describing the panel. I was able to immediately remember which panel you were talking about. I liked how you compared the reader to the participants. Even though I knew it was coming, it still makes you sad.
ReplyDeleteI think you all did a great job explaining the panel. I liked how you explained that panel where you are looking down, that picture gave us a different impression of the situation. I think you explained many different aspects of this panel to make us better understand it, as if we had never seen it!
ReplyDeleteGreat work with this. I knew immediately what part of the book you were talking about without having to look. Great use of examples to describe what's happening though. Good dissection.
ReplyDeleteThis was a strong panel to choose, it is full of emotion. Your group did a great job with describing and analyzing this panel and what was going on before and after it all happened. I liked the use of examples of how you interpreted this panel and I completely agree with all of it. Great work!
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