Friday, January 14, 2011
I really enjoyed this book and the fact that you could tell so much from the littlest things. I first thought that it was just a little story of post cards, but it ends up being so much more. I love that the artwork on each post card tells a story in itself and then the writing doesn't even need to say that much of a story or about the character. The most interesting thing to me was the fact that how as the story went on, Griffin's letters started becoming more like Sabine's and vice versa. At the end, I also noticed right away that the last two post cards had no addresses to them yet they're talking as if they received the letter. I believe that proved the theory of Griffin's insanity and the fact that he made up Sabine's existence to keep himself occupied in his lonely, miserable life.
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Hmm, I didn't even recognize the last couple of letters having no return address. Your journal agrees with mine in regards to Griffin's insanity. I also liked that you talked about Griffin and Sabine's letters starting to really correspond with eachother as if they were from the same person. I also agree on your objection to this graphic novel being from two people; I think this novel has a way of portraying it to be from two people in the beginning but as the book progresses, it starts to blend as if it's only from Griffin's mind.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this completely! Who cares about the plot and the postcards, its all about reading into the postcards and digging deeper then the surface. I think it would be interesting to take all text out of the story and see how readers would decipher the story based on the artwork on the postcards only.
ReplyDeleteThese are all interesting points. Karson is right, we have talked about taking the artwork out of the story to see if the text can still stand alone, but it would be even more interesting to take the text out and see what the artwork can tell us. Would we be completely lost in the story? We probably would be, but you would be able to tell that as the story continues it gets darker because the artwork gets edgier. I think that if we just saw the artwork, we would definitely conclude that Griffine is insane as Maya suggested.
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