The Language Of Comics Analysis

The world we live in is consumed by technology, and is found in many aspects of a person’s day. A hundred years ago the world was almost like another planet to how it is today. For students in order to complete an essay for their class they had to go to the library to gather a sufficient amount of sources to support their claim, however today students automatically turn to the internet and consider the library a last resort. Living in such a fast paced society, the youth has been taught this need for speed.

A few words typed into a Web search engine can lead a student to hundreds, sometimes thousands, of relevant documents, making it easy to “cut and paste” a few paragraphs from here and a few more from there until the student has an entire

The only way it can be made in an exact replica is if it has been made into a copy. A person can look at a painting and interpret it in a different way from someone else. Because of this we are able to make deeper connections to what we are seeing. This is also what gives icons and symbols life because we have assigned them a different meaning when we see them. In The Language of Comics, McCloud states that we are able to travel into another realm with simplicity. “You would have been far too aware of the messenger to receive the message!” with too much detail (pg.36-37). In “The Treachery of Images” even though the picture might not be a real pipe and it has been pieced together from many different elements. In the end it is still a pipe because we as the viewer are able to take this image and provide it with

Middle School is the time in many people’s lives where they are trapped in that same feeling of just trying to discover their true self. I was one of these people. My Middle School years were mostly created in the image of sameness. Being different was something very frowned upon. There were times where I felt so lost with who I was as a person that I thought when I would look in a mirror I would never get to know the person who was staring back at me. However there was one novel that helped me to open my eyes and escape this feeling of isolation, and that book was The Giver. I felt this connection to the main character Jonas and to all that he was experiencing especially him being the same age I was. With each page that I turned I could feel the dark haze that had always surrounded my eyes begin to disappear. I began to see what was really around me rather than just what others told me. For the first time I could feel myself starting to question the things that I have always been told growing up. I could finally see that in the world we live in there is so much fear of the things that are unknown, and that our society will do whatever in its power to keep the unknown concealed. Lois Lowry says in the novel, “The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books” (ch.16). When one