Throughout the book, the author, Nora Krug, uses photography and drawings to build the narrative, which is shown in different ways throughout the different types of drawings and photographs sections of the book. A pattern I noticed was how she always covered her Aunt Annemarie’s face every time a photograph or drawing of her aunt was shown. I found this interesting and later realized that Krug had an intention behind it, which was to build the narrative of Belonging. As previously mentioned, Krug uses photography to build the book’s narrative. This is shown in different chapters in the book, but only three occasions will be discussed in which the author decided to cover her aunt’s face as a way of giving the readers that extra sense of how the author herself has not been able to put a face to the name either, since Krug has not met her aunt. The first example of …show more content…
Another instance in which readers can observe this is in chapter 13, another picture is shown in which a man is laying on the grass with his son and a little girl, once again the little girl’s face is covered with a piece of paper and a signature. This little girl was identified once again as her aunt, Annemarie. Lastly, at the end of the book there is a family tree in which Krug father’s side of the family is shown, as you go through each person, their faces, names, and relationships to the author can be seen. As one would assume, one of the women in the family tree was Annemarie and once again her face was drawn in a more abstract way, in contrast to the other family tree members whose faces were either cutouts