Author: Isaac

“This is sometimes called comic’s ‘all-at-onceness,’ or its ‘symphonic effect.’ In comics, reading can happen in all directions; this open-endedness, and attention to choice in how one interacts with the pages, is part of the appeal of comics narrative”

Especially in Maus part II many of the pages when you first open then stand out by themselves. The attention in these pages will most likely interest the reader in the page as a whole other then individual panels. For example, page number 51 is one that stands out a lot because in the center piece you have an aerial view of auschwitz. This page is a great example of the “all-at-onceness” that is mentioned in the quote because the most likely scenario that takes place when reading this page is starting from the center and then move out. Or immediately at the start of chapter two. You will probably start looking at the big image of the flies in the bottom and then go up from there. This idea in comics that you don’t have to read from left to right. This is something that is really exemplified in Maus.

The last panel of page 54 is the most important one because it changed the chances that the main character had in surviving. He was currently in a concentration camp to a minor degree with very little food and shelter. When he saw that there was an opportunity to go somewhere that had more food and a warm bed he knew he had to take it. I don’t think that he would of had the chance to escape like he did in the latter chapter if he would of remained in the camp so I picked this horizontal panel as the most important one because it changed the situation for the main character.

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I didn’t know a lot about the memory palace that we looked in Psychology. It allowed me to learn of a new way to memories a lot of information as I displayed in the image and with the text. I created a palace and connected it to the story I wrote. Cicero was the one who invented the memory palace. I said how he would talk to clever hans which was a horse that a scientist tried to prove he could speak languages. But in reality he could only pay attention to small details that would allow the horse to respond because he didn’t actually know what people where saying. It was a great way to learn my material a lot better but it does take a lot of time.

It was truly enjoyable to be able to write about personal experience and in the first person. I always love to write when there is no prompt because it give me freedom to do whatever I want. It is weird to write about how I don’t like writing and reading in a writing and reading class but it was definitely interesting to do so.

LITERACY NARRATIVE REFLECTION

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