Personal Effects: Dark Art

The effect of the realism in Personal Effect: Dark Art- the realistic phone numbers, e-mails, pictures, blogs, and websites all contribute to the non-fictional factor of this story. Without these elements there would not be such a suspenceful storyline in this novel. I believe, without the clues and hints outside of the book's pages this story wouldn't be as good. These things also add to the multimedianess of the novel

Personal Effects: Dark Art is probably the best book I have ever read. I love how it is set up in a journal style and I love how there are real phone numbers, websites, and e-mail addresses to make it all so believable. The storyline is so thought out that I sometimes believe the story is real when I'm reading. I also love how all of the ID's and pictures seem so real and not fake at all.

Personal Effects

This book is the most interactive piece of literature we've worked with so far in this class. The hands-on nature of it makes it so interesting to read, and it's been really hard for me to put down. A mystery usually sucks its reader in, and when the author allows you to participate as much as you can in this mystery it makes it an even more addicting read. The book asks its reader to use their sight, touch, hearing, and their mind in general. If it were simply a mystery story without all the included documents, clues, and phone numbers to call etc it would not be as intriguing as it is.

Personal Effects Journal

I am keenly interested in the book Personal Effects. Before we started to read it I was highly intrigued by the visual elements incorporated into the book. I was instantly fascinated with the visual and realistic clues that the author included with the story. I find that it's incredibly interesting to read a story that could come across as a real life event. I believe that the phone numbers and legitimate voice recordings also add a lot to the tone and the story line of the book. This is unlike anything I have ever read before and I highly enjoy the way that Hutchins draws the reader into the book through visual elements which ultimately help to move the story along. I think that this also really allows the reader to connect to the story and take on a level of familiarity with the characters, creating emotional ties and interest between the reader and the story line.

Fahrenheit 451

 In the book Fahrenheit 451,  I found the pictures have played a very important role in the novel. Almost on every page, there are some red onomatopoeia or red flame that to cause readers' attention, and  the color  in the  graphic novel also gives readers the clues that what is happening. I also like the drawing that none of the characters has the same looking in this book. Especially Linda, she always has differnet looking on each page, different hair's color and face shape. But you can still tell that is Montag's wife Linda from her speaking.

Over the weekend I stumbled across the text version of Fahrenheit 451. Personally, the general story line behind Fahrenheit 451 is very boring. I am not interesting in the text version or the graphic novel version. I think it is too fictional. However, without the pictures in the graphic novel version, I do not think I would be able to get through the story. The text version would be virtually impossible for me to get through because it would be so boring. The only interesting part of the entire novel for me was the tones of color Tim Hamilton uses to express the mood. Between pages 112-121, the color is a bright orange and yellow. On page 121, without even reading the words or looking at the pictures, the mood automatically changes because of the dark color. In general, bright sends a happier, positive tone and dark sends a mean, negative tone. This story falls out of the stereotypical interpretations of color because the bright is symbolizing fire which ultimately means destruction and death and the dark symbolizes the end. I think it would be interesting to read a book with very little words, as few as possible, and have each page a different color. Everyone would decipher each word based on the color of the page. This is similar to what readers do in Fahrenheit 451 only there is conversation and text on the majority of the pages.

Fahrenheit 451

What I find to be so interesting about this book is the parallel between the drawings and the text. I find it highly amusing to correlate the action inspired by the characters with the illustrations provided. I think that the color scheme throughout the book reflects the action and overall plot of the book very well. The colors are rather dull which mirrors the drab life that the characters live under such strict control of their government and lack of adventure and total free will. I believe that this helps accentuate the readers ability to identify with the characters and also evoke certain emotions about their lives. I am also fascinated by the depiction of fire in this novel. It seems as though behind every character there is a fire burning. This appears in the colors that illustrate the various plot turns. Fire drives the ideas and actions of the characters in this book and I feel that that point is made very clear through the extensive illustrations.