Why are kids drawn into a cartoon so much? A cartoon is a combination of simple art that can effortlessly convey a story to the children with a visualized plot. Therefore, it is more appealing to a variety of readers than the traditional text like which may contain bundle of complex words. A cartoon could also be in several genres that can attract more people, especially the horror story collection “Through the Woods” which has many suspenseful and surprising images that catch readers’ sights throughout the pages. By contrast, the short story, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson has bit of difficulties at immediately understanding the concept of the book. Comics have their own strength of expressing a story through an author’s unique drawing …show more content…
Comparing to a text itself in the book, the drawing in the comic directly forms the image in readers’ mind. The way “A Lady’s Hands Are Cold” from “Through the Woods” uses both speech bubbles and transitions throughout the story, which actually can be physically seen in the paper, enhances such trait furthermore. As the protagonist begins to hear a song about a dead person’s life, a bloody speech bubble with scribbled lyrics in it, guiding her to every corner of a palace-like house, gives a hint of tragedy occurred in the house in the past. On the page with none of the text and the girl wandering the house holding an axe arouses some anxiety and fear. Then the moment of transition to her first unearthing the cold, faded hands give the readers feeling of ghoulish and chill on the back. Furthermore readers can find irony in the story. In the beginning it looked so peaceful and charming with girl living in a palace-like house but as she found out the chopped off corpses it offers nasty feeling. Especially when the protagonist discovered the isolated head with hallowed eyeholes, the panel focuses on it emphasizing that the house is not safe anymore. A story with well portrayed pictures, the images can be immediately depicted in the readers’ head in single sight and it does not require analytic skill as deep as the traditional text to follow along the story as