I know this does non sound rather academic, but I truly liked the fact that this was a realistic narrative. No supernatural elements, no superheroes, nil impossible. Just the field, honest narrative about a household, told by a adult female who ‘s life could hold been wholly mean and normal. But somehow it merely was n’t, really it was far from being that. The two chief subjects of the in writing memoir are sexual orientation and decease, evidently. But still it is non an overall sad or dejecting narrative, although there are some minutes which make the reader feel sorry, in some manner, particularly for Alison or her male parent Bruce. But apart from those tragic minutes there are some scenes and state of affairss which are truly amusing, and I even had to express joy at some points while reading.

As I already mentioned, sexual orientation and decease are the most of import facets of the in writing memoir. I enjoyed how freely and openly Alison negotiations about her ain and her male parent ‘s gender. Whereas Alison acted instead openly when she eventually realized she was a sapphic, her male parent was evidently unable to get by with his ain gender of being attracted to work forces for all of his life. Therefore he married a adult female, had kids with her and maintain secret homosexual personal businesss all of his life. And in the terminal, he kills himself. Or at least that is what Alison believes, and I think she is right. I do non believe it was an accident. The manner his life terminals, and the point of clip his life ends, I do non believe this is happenstance. He merely could non take it any longer. So decease plays a large portion in the in writing memoir, of course. Besides because Bruce was a funeral manager. And an English instructor. Which I think is a lovely combination.

The house the household lives in, the professions of the male parent, the secret homosexualism of Bruce and Alison, the developments go oning throughout the in writing memoir non-linear narrative, the mentions to classics of universe literature I loved all of it. To me, Fun Home is a absolutely composed, habit-forming in writing memoir. Probably the one graphic novel I enjoyed most in this category.

Among a flooring figure of people, homosexualism still counts as some sort of disease. Homosexuals have to cover with expulsion from society and they are frequently non treated every bit on a legal footing either. But why do these things keep go oning, in times like ours?

I would state that one of the grounds is tradition. For 100s of old ages, or even longer, people have been educated in a certain manner. This instruction involved the position on household. In a traditional household, there is a adult male and a adult female, who are married. He goes to work to do their life, she does the family and attentions about the kids, of whom there should be at least two. But this perceptual experience kept altering over the class of clip, particularly in the twentieth century there were some large motions. Womans gained a batch of rights, they are working presents it is all right if households want to hold merely one kid. Divorce rates are high, individual female parents or individual male parents are widely accepted. Because all of these things are all right for society. But a homosexual or sapphic twosome, meaning to acquire married and possibly even following a kid, this is something people can non get by with. I do non desire to diss anyone. I am merely talking for what I believe the bulk of people think. And of class their statements are tradition and faith and household values, but in the terminal, the traditional household perceptual experience has changed over the old ages already, and I merely can non understand why homosexual twosomes are still such a large job to so many people.

And so of class there is the church. A batch of people in this state truly do believe in God and pattern Christianity, and that is all right with me, every bit long as they do non exchange their encephalons off and maintain believing about what they believe in. Christianity declines homosexualism, some Christians even believe in the theory that homosexualism can be cured, like a regular disease.

I merely can non understand why so many people still believe in all those things. I do non understand why some people are afraid of homophiles. I can non even argue with these people, because I merely do non understand how they think, and why they can still support their homophobic positions.

I hope that future coevalss will populate in a better universe than ours, where truly all human existences are treated every bit. But I fear this will take a batch more old ages to go on.

I have to acknowledge that before I started working on From Hell, I had no thought the narrative it depicts has something to make with Jack the Ripper. All I knew about it was that it is a in writing novel which was turned into a Hollywood film starring Johnny Depp. I had non seen the film, I had non read the in writing novel, so I had perfectly no background cognition at all. The speaking about it in category and the scheduled reading caused me to make a spot of research on the subject before get downing to really reading the in writing novel, and I am glad I did so, because it helped me throughout the full reading procedure.

The following thing I realized one time I had started reading was that I had a much harder clip reading From Hell, particularly compared to Watchmen. Quite frequently I had to re-read some pages for a few times, until I was perfectly certain I had understood what was really traveling on. My chief job was how the narrative developed, there were some parts that I really would non hold missed if they merely had non been at that place. Another thing that sort of disturbed me was that all of a sudden, Dr. Gull started seeing into the hereafter. I had non expected that move, and I found its debut instead questionable.

But non all was bad to me. For illustration, I truly liked the manner of the drawings. The deficiency of colourss conveyed a really particular ambiance, and although I found some scenes instead creepy, I overall enjoyed the drawings.

But when it comes down to it I have to acknowledge that reading From Hell did non truly excite or crawl me. Much instead it bored or confused me.

In his text History: A Retro Scenario, Jean Baudrillard brings an statement towards the terminal of the text which I think is of great importance. It is the undermentioned sentence, which to me, is really challenging. History is a strong myth, possibly, along with the unconscious, the last great myth. I do non desire to travel on reasoning about possible other myths apart from history and the unconscious, I would much instead like to portion my ideas about the thought of seeing history as a myth.

First of all, what is history? History in the broader sense of the term refers to every event taking topographic point before the present. Yesterday is history, the twenty-four hours before yesterday is history, but events go oning 100s or 1000s of old ages ago are history every bit good. We, as human existences, can take a expression at historical events. We can retrieve things that happened to us yesterday, but we can non retrieve things that happened 400 old ages ago. We rely on beginnings, historical paperss, which were written by human existences 400 old ages ago in order to continue their experiences and cognition. And the amusing thing is, at least this is what I would state, most of these statements and paperss have ever been taken for granted and seen as the absolute truth about the times they were written in. I mean, of class, the innovation of objects like cameras etc. made it a batch harder to forge history ( although a image or a movie is ne’er a existent portrayal of the scene really displayed in it ) . But still, and this ( eventually ) brings me to the point I want to do: How can we cognize that all we believe to cognize about history is really true and happened merely the manner we think it did? How much has been faked or at least changed through all the old ages of historical tradition? We will ne’er cognize, every bit long as we do non hold eye-witnesses stating us about it, and of class presuming they do non lie. As you may ( or should ) hold realised at this point is that my station this hebdomad is fundamentally merely a aggregation of confounding ideas about history and how it arises. But these ideas merely came to my head after reading Baudrillard ‘s text about history and the function it plays in modern film etc.

For Baudrillard, history is a strong myth, and after believing about it, I can merely hold with him.

In this hebdomad ‘s station, I would wish to show my ideas and feelings about Watchmen. The first thing that comes to my head when believing about the in writing novel is that it was wholly different from what I thought it would be like. I had ne’er read it before, nor had I seen the film, so when I started reading I merely knew it was about a group of superheroes.

After I had started reading, I would shortly happen out that my position of superheroes was non traveling to be found in Watchmen. To me, all the characters have some fatal defects, which was non truly within my thought of superheroes before.

Besides, the lone character who seems to hold superhuman powers is Dr. Manhatten. All the others, to set it simple, are merely truly good at strengths every human being possesses to a certain extent. If you take Rohrschach, for illustration, who is first-class at street combat or pugilism and has an ability of turning every possible point into a arm.

Furthermore, during the clip Watchmen is set, all superheroes are banned by the authorities, which sort of baffled me straight off, and I got even more baffled when I found out that certain superheroes, like Dr. Manhatten, work as government-sanctioned superheroes. I can non precisely say why, but that whole environing made it difficult for me to follow and to the full understand the whole secret plan.

But there were some things I truly liked. For illustration, I liked the temporal scene of the secret plan. The clip during the Cold War was really important, non merely between the United States and the Soviet Union. A crisis between those two states would hold endangered the whole universe order. So I think this scene is merely perfect for a narrative like Watchmen. Furthermore, I truly liked the manner of pulling in the in writing novel. I think the colourss underline the plot line reasonably good, and besides the construction of the panels impressed me.

This hebdomad ‘s subject of the category is superheroes, and after reading the assigned texts I would wish to set my ideas to words about that subject in this station.

First of all, I have ne’er been an supporter of any sort of superhero, no affair if they appeared in books, movies, in writing novels etc. Basically, I have ne’er had the involvement. Reading narratives about people with world powers ne’er made sense to me, because evidently superheroes do non be in the existent universe, and are perfectly freely made up by writers. So, I came up with a few inquiries which I would wish to discourse now.

First of all, what is the captivation of superheroes for common people like us? I ‘m non certain, but I think it has got to make with boundaries of the human strength, which every homo being will make from clip to clip. The captivation of holding world powers is non to be bound to physical Torahs. I think a batch of people are covetous, because they imagine how great it must be to wing around like Superman, for illustration. We want to see the escapades our superheroes experience, but we are bound to what a human organic structure can make.

Then, of class, the classical good versus evil-story comes into drama. Superheroes normally use their powers to assist people who need them, they normally help the good by contending the immorality. A really charming idea, if you ask me.

Summarizing up those two points, I think I would sort that some sort of flight from everyday-life is what people love about superheroes. And I can truly understand that. Loads of people lead a instead deadening life, working 5 yearss a hebdomad, all the responsibilities they have.. And so they get dragged into these narratives about people with world powers, who live in the same universe they live in, and it merely fascinates them, and they might even get down conceive ofing being a superhero themselves. I truly understand that, but, as I said right at the beginning, I am non excessively fond of such narratives, and I likely ne’er will be.

That is besides the ground why I truly enjoyed reading the assigned in writing novels so far, but to be honest, Watchmen is giving me a spot of a difficult clip. I merely do non happen the captivation in it that others might happen, but anyhow, I will complete reading it, and pass sometime believing about it, and so possibly my head will alter.

Among the other in writing novels we dealt with in category this semester, Maus was the one which fascinated me the most. In this station, I will tr to happen and explicate grounds for this sentiment.

First of wholly, the ruling subject of the narration is, if class, the Holocaust. Now, I think this is a really sensitive subject, and before I started reading Maus, I was inquiring how the narrative would cover with this subject. I think Spiegelman found a truly interesting manner to portray the state of affairs during World War II. His manner of drawing, the deficiency of colourss and the changing formats of the panels contribute to this feeling of general unhappiness, which in my sentiment is an appropriate term to depict the narrative. It merely is a truly sad narrative.

Furthermore, I liked the general format of the narrative. The interview with his male parent Vladek fundamentally frames the narrative of, once more, his male parent Vladek. Therefore, the reader gets an penetration into the relationship between male parent and boy every bit good. This relationship seems to be a troubled one, with the two apparently speaking against each other more than with each other at times. The chief job between Art and Vladek is the fact that Vladek personally experienced the Holocaust, and Art did non. This is the ground why one of them can ne’er to the full understand the other, which leads Art to even wish that he had been to Auschwitz at one point in the in writing novel, merely in order to understand his male parent better.

Last hebdomad we chiefly talked about designation and testimony refering the Holocaust, and a batch of in Maus is concerned with these footings every bit good. As I mentioned before, Art will ne’er be able to understand his male parent, because he ne’er had to travel through the anguishs his male parent had to bear. But of class he is truly avaricious for all the information he can acquire about the clip of the Holocaust through testimony. Once in the novel, he calls his male parent a liquidator, because he had burned Art ‘s female parent ‘s journal, which makes him truly angry.

Yet another point is, Art wanted so much information and personal narratives about the Holocaust to be able to eventually compose about it. So there is besides a batch of self-criticism involved every bit good. The character of Art seems to be divided, someway. On the one manus side there is this greed for every bit much information as possible, one the other manus side there is this want for holding experienced the Holocaust himself. The character of Vladek seems to be divided every bit good. Of class he had to endure a batch during the Holocaust, and the ground for him enduring was racism. But still, he shows racialist rules every bit good, when he talks about the coloured hitchhiker.

So, possibly as a decision, I would state that Maus by Art Spiegelman is a extremely demanding, really affectional and topic-wise really complicated read. It truly left me with a feeling of some sort of resentment and unhappiness, and I am certain I will hold to pass more hours on believing about it to come someplace near to understanding it.

I truly liked the extract of The Holocaust and the Postmodern by Robert Eaglestone. It offers some new thoughts and attacks towards the Holocaust in footings of literature, history and doctrine. Particularly the writer ‘s debut of the genre of testimony is a cardinal construct, and I would wish to portion my ideas on this issue in this web log station.

I truly believe that the Holocaust is an event, or a concatenation of events, which humanity will ne’er be to the full able to come to footings with. It is a point in the history of the universe where every logical thinking and reasoning merely Michigans. No individual in the universe can conceive of how a Holocaust victim felt, and how the subsisters still feel or felt after it was over. It is beyond our imaginativeness. Therefore, I agree with Eaglestone refering the genre of testimony. Those who have non been there can ne’er cognize what it was similar. But still it is of import to read narratives about the Holocaust for assorted grounds. The most of import, in my sentiment, is that it is of great importance to cover with the events oft he Holocaust in a literary manner. As I mentioned before, I think we will ne’er be able to understand this dark chapter of the universe ‘s history, but people should at least construct up cognition about this clip, in order to heighten their individuality as Austrians/Germans, as Europeans and of class as human existences. Furthermore, testimony provides direct mention to what happened during the Holocaust. It is produced by people who truly experienced the Holocaust, and hence have much more to state than some historiographers many old ages subsequently. I believe that the events during the Holocaust can non be generalized. Every piece of testimony is of import. History books can seek to explicate what happened, but a personal statement from person who truly experienced the Holocaust will, in the terminal, affect every individual individual who reads it.

After reading the in writing fresh adaptation of City of Glass for a 2nd clip today, I decided to blog about it once more for this hebdomad. Although I talked about it in my web log last hebdomad already, I would wish to add some ideas this hebdomad.

First of all, I will seek to happen equal words to depict the atmosphere nowadays in the in writing novel. The first thing catching the reader ‘s oculus is the deficiency of colourss. All the drawings are illustrated in black and white. In my sentiment, this is a really good manner of visualizing the instead confusing and sometimes unsettling plot line and the duologues. Since City of Glass can mistily be defined as a offense or detective narrative, the design of the in writing fresh adaptation might hold been influenced by movies which belong to the genre of movie noir. The deficiency of inside informations and instead unsmooth and imprecise manner of pulling might besides be an indicant for that. So, all in all, the reader is left experiencing confused, with no exact thought of how the narrative might stop, but at the same clip experiencing impressed by the plot line. This was how feel, after all.

Now I will seek to take a expression at the in writing fresh adaptation in footings of metafictional and post-modernist facets, as assigned for reading about this hebdomad. Narrative and structural experiments present in postmodern literature are frequently inspired by older novels, one oft hem is Don Quixote. I found it truly interesting how this novel is embedded in the narrative, when the supporter visits the existent writer Paul Auster. They portion their ideas about the novel of Don Quixote. Furthermore, Peter Stillmann senior is an writer, and before get downing and look intoing the instance of him and his boy, the supporter, as detective Paul Auster, visits a library and reads through a work of Peter Stillman senior.

All in all, I would wish to sum up stating that I liked the in writing fresh adaptation about better than the original novel, because the temper and atmosphere the reader can merely experience when reading the novel is present while reading the in writing novel. I believe that this is a really particular, really valuable narrative, which combines legion influences ( besides on a postmodernist and metafictional country ) to a great reading pleasance.

Of the three texts assigned for reading this hebdomad, it was Chute ‘s Comics as Literature? Reading Graphic Narrative I enjoyed most. The chief ground for this is the really interesting attack she takes in her text.

First of wholly, she gives a short history of amusing strips and sketchs, how they developed and eventually ended up as being in writing novels or in writing narrative, as she calls this field of written work. I truly like this term of “ in writing narrative ” , and I can decidedly hold with the manner she defines and characterizes it. To be honest, I had ever been of the sentiment that comics/graphic narrative were merely non “ serious ” plenty to be reviewed and treated like a piece of “ existent ” literature. But Chute offers some really plausible accounts, and connects her theories to some illustrations. Actually, after holding read this text, I am now truly looking frontward to covering with Maus in this category.

I would besides wish to state a few words about Paul Austers City of Glass in this postas good. I read this novel about a twelvemonth ago, and I started reading the in writing fresh adaptation this hebdomad. To be honest, I was instead surprised about the quality of this adaptation. I mean, I truly enjoyed the existent novel, but this adaptation is merely fantastic. I think it is even better than the existent novel. The secret plan is rather complicated, and particularly when I was reading the novel, it was difficult signifier vitamin E to follow the narrative. I had to re-read spots and pieces once more, to understand all the alterations the chief character oft he book, Mr. Quinn. He possesses several individualities, and he keeps on altering them throughout the narrative, sometimes even from one twenty-four hours to another, he gives himself different names, etc. I can merely conceive of how difficult it must hold been to transform this complex narrative into a in writing novel, but Mazzuchelli and Karasik did a great occupation. I truly bask how the address balloons and the images work together and complement one another.

To me, since I started reading City of Glass, it is certain that there is some sort of difference between a amusing or a simple amusing strip, and a in writing novel/graphic narrative, particularly refering the complexness oft he narrative being told every bit good as the signifier of written text and images combine to ensue in a narrative.

I spent most of my childhood and early young person reading amusing books. I can non remember when it really started, but I am pretty certain I was at place, in my bed, being ill. I had read through all of my books already, and I asked my parents to convey place something nice for me to read. My male parent came along with the really first amusing book I of all time possessed. It was one from the Lucky Luke series, and if I think back at it now, I have to state I know likely every individual address balloon in that one by bosom. After reading though it for the first clip, I read it once more. And one more clip, that same twenty-four hours. I was merely fascinated. It was a cool narrative, something about gold diggers, I had been into cowpuncher when I was a little male child, and this was precisely my type of amusement. I demanded more, I spent most of my pocket money on purchasing Lucky Luke amusing books. I bought every individual computing machine game and even the Television series.

Soon I discovered another thing I merely loved. The Donald Duck amusing books. While Mickey Mouse ne’er aroused my involvement, Donald Duck was perfect for me. I bought legion of these books, and read them all over once more and once more. They ne’er bored, no affair how frequently I had read them before. But that was it so, for rather a piece. Somehow I grew older, and I sort of lost the involvement in cartoon strips.

One twenty-four hours a friend asked me whether I would wish to travel to the film and watch the ( at that clip ) new Spiderman movie adaptation. I agreed, but I did non truly like it at all. I ne’er watched a movie adaptation of any of those amusing books once more, no Spiderman, no Batman, and whatever they are called. But one thing stuck in my head. If there are so many readers and fans of those amusing books, there must be something about them. And although I did non like the movies, I checked out some of those amusing heros, and read some of those amusing books. I found them rather interesting, and in contrast to the film, I truly enjoyed reading them. Which is why I was instead happy when I saw this class being offered at the university this semester.

So fundamentally, Lucky Luke started it for me, it sort of brought me here, and this category will certainly non be the terminal of my personal comic-reading history.