A memoir written and illustrated by David Small tells about a story about his life as a boy who grew up not knowing that he has cancer until he was fourteen years old and living in horrendous family. His relationship with his mother was dreadful, it made him felt like an out cast which lead to move out at sixteen. He felt like an outsider for his whole life and he didn’t have strong relationships with anyone in his family. The reason why he acts the way he does is because he didn’t have the normal mother to son relationship.
By the age of fourteen years old , he was attended to the hospital to get a cancerous tumor removed from his neck(Small 166). David spend all his time by himself in his hospital room. The tone of the panel looked dark and it stated that the hospital was the most comfortable place. His relationship with his mother was awful,she would only come to the hospital to make sure he was still alive. Small states “ No one love a hospital, But those Bland , functional spaces and fixtures were a part of my life. There ,I felt safe” ( Small 160). Also in McCloud , he says “ Most often used to established a mood or a sense of place , times seem to stand still in these quiet contemplative combinations”( McCloud 79 ). He felt more comfortable at hospital then at home, where
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Still a senior in high school , I rode the bus to attend classes each day returning every afternoon to my one-room apartment in Detroit’s inner city” (Small 295 ). This image shows where he walking down the street is so depressing and sad that the problems that he had with his mom was unresolved that he felt like he need to moved out. In Parker Royal states ,”… comics rub up against reality in way that word cannot, revealing the various assumptions, predispositions, and prejudices the author - illustrated may hold” ( Parker 1). The image Small reveal that he was unhappy with people in his