Sunday, January 27, 2008

Blankets- Chapters 6-7

Not particularly in chapters 6-7, but in the earlier chapters, mostly in chapter 5, I noticed one aspect of how Raina was drawn that caught my attention. Her lips, nearly every time she is depicted in the panels, are intricate, delicate, and always stand out. While other characters' lips are drawn as striahgt lines or with little to no detail, hers are always exquisite and drawn to stand out. On page 257, when her and Craig are kissing in the woods, int he bottom larger panel, Craig's lips disappear, while Raina's seem to encompass, swallow, and make his disappear.
On page 346 and 347, i loved the author's different uses of font for the speech bubbles. When Craig tells Raina she loves him, it's personal, almost hand-written, like her original poetry sent to him through the mail, but when she replies, it's in the type-writer, impersonal font. The font of her response makes the reader feel the coldness and the distance of the response. It also seems to me the coldness and distance that Craig is feeling seeping subtly from Raina, and growing between the two.
As I continue to read this story, there's so much going on in each panel, on each page, in each word bubble, and between each character. I see so many undiscovered and barely touched on connections betwen each character, so many symbols, situations, and dialogues that are barely touched on or explained by the autho, yet presented. I fel as if each little tid bit the author gives, he gives to each individual reader, letting us make our own connections and explanations. I feel like he doesn't explain everything or make it clear or just give us little pieces of each so we can connect to it in our own ways, putting a piece of ourselves and our stories into his.

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