1) I think the decision of a comic style for the memoir was a very good choice. It kept people interested, and engaged. I'm sure that if i was just a plain text memoir about the Iranian revolution & war with Iraq, it would have put me to sleep faster than i could blink.
a) This comic format made me remember events that happened throughout the story a lot better than i would have with regular plain text book format. The murder of her father's brother in the bathtub was one that stuck out. The picture especially was pretty cool with the man hanging out of the tub. Death was very heavily illustrated in the story. The author was not afraid to show people what it looked like, even if it was in a more sugar coated cartoon format. In regular book format, all we have are words to go on, and we don't really get that mental image that sticks. We get our own mental image that we formulate, but seeing one made for you to see on the paper is an entirely different feeling.
2) I think i would use a combination of a song, with a collage as visual. I love music, and i think a song would be most appropriate for the audible end of my memoir. I love making collages, and i have a lot of materials to do so. Also, i think collages are a great way to display events and people as well as displaying creativity. Collages have never ending possibilities. You can use pictures, your own drawings, magazine cut outs, paint, etc. Collages say something, in my perspective. And I'm all about "saying something" if done in the right format. BAM! if you will.
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What is it about the comics style that keeps you more engaged? The fact that appeals to more than one of your senses?
Did the comics style normalize death, or killing, in the way that it depicted it?
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