Blog #5

When reading the original text of the book Twilight and then reading the graphic novel, I thought that they weren't going to be similar at all for some reason because with a novel like Twilight I feel like it would be hard and difficult to try and portray almost the same effect and adaptations but the graphic novel actually did. From being a big Twilight fan and reading the books and seeing the movies, the graphic novel was equally as good. I say this because as I was looking through the graphic novel, it looked just like the movie and nothing really changed. So the adaptation in both of these were the same and usually that never happens because its always one or the other that is different from the rest but not in the graphic novel and the original book.

I believe that the graphic novel amplifies the original in insightful ways because just from reading the book you don't necessarily get all the big details and can't really picture it in your head, but once you read the graphic novel it's so much easier to understand and it makes the reading that much better.

Explication Paper

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kVlmNzd9dA8ubECurRTc9RgcYZSO-IlrswNVRJOJ2hE/edit

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Craig like the prisoners believing that shadows are "real" is in his own little world. I say this because as we see throughout the book Craig is so sheltered in his own world/imagination. He is like this because he is always surrounded by family, the drawings, and the imaginations that he is always having. So for him to be like the prisoners in believing that shadows are "real" I can see how he is like that just because of what we know about him. What Craig comes to realize is that he isn't the only one who seems to be seeing these shadows and living in there world. He notices that Phil is also living like this as well. But what Craig in the end notices is that real life to him is a struggle and it will never happen because he only knows what he thinks is real are his imaginations and drawings.

Plato's Allegory is similar to Craig because Craig throughout the book is having a hard time trying to figure himself as well as others out. It's like he doesn't know who he really is in  a way. Craig is then having to live the real life and let people in but soon finds out that it is actually hard to do and can't be done.

For Craig burning all his memories is like what happened at the beginning of the book. He burned everything in the beginning because he thought that that would help him get rid of his memories so that he could move on and he wouldn't have to remember anything anymore. So by him doing that in the beginning, maybe he possibly thought that burning all the memories of Raina would release all his memories of her so that he won't be thinking about the most beautiful girl in his eyes that he has ever met.

The Arrival

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VLAlES_UpKPimOnPJCHKudjEDRGsZaOdRs8SzoZxsgA/edit

Blog #2

1. In chapter 8, I noticed the concept of color first because as we can see that is the only color in the whole entire text. The color in this chapter specifically on page 190-191 it talks about what color is and the meaning to the color and why it is chosen on the different panels. On page 191 the first panel it says "color as sensation, color as environment. Color as color" so this means to me that color really enhances a picture and describes a picture better than just black and white. By having color it can tell someone's mood or the importance of the image.The next concept goes along with color and that is depth. On page 190 the one panel says "tones and modeling could add depth." By adding depth to a color image really enhances the picture and gives the picture more character.

2. In this image shown it is a picture of my favorite movie "The Avengers." We see that color and depth are shown in this very well because the color of each marvel character stands out and it is also showing action to action icon. I say this because we can see that the fire on the ground looks like it is moving and the background images with the fog and even the avengers are taking action. Depth goes along with this because the little details makes the image just that much better and I like how each avenger is the center and bigger but its not just one avenger who's bigger than the rest. 

3. McClouds theories "complicate" my reading of images because I never thought about images the way he describes it and the way he sees it. I never realized that there are icons to images and each image or reading we see actually relates to something and actually has more meaning to it than I thought it actually did.

Introduction

Hi my name is Lauren Gold, I am a junior here at Ship and my major is Human Communication Studies. I am on the women's basketball team here, if any of you like sports you can come watch us play!!:)  I like to do a lot of things, I will try a lot of things once and if  I enjoy it then I will do it again. When I was younger about elementary school I did have Yu-Gi-Oh cards but I couldn't really get into it and I did play video games like Pokemon and Zelda. I did enjoy those. I also like Marvel movies like the Avengers that's my favorite. But what interested me into this course is just learning more about Marvel since that is my favorite and other things that I didn't know about this whole course.

My current level of experience reading comics specifically is that I have never read a comic before, so this is completely new to me. I have read one graphic novel and that was only for one of my classes, it was Persepolis. Other than that I have never read a comic or even heard of manga before. I haven't watched anime before because I could never get into it, I did try watching it when I was younger but never really liked it. I did play video games when I was younger like Zelda, James Bond but once I got older I stopped playing. I do enjoy playing a lot of video games though and if I wasn't so busy I would play it a lot more still. I mean I never really had any pre existing attitudes about people who read comics and graphic novels. I would just hear about people going to comic book conventions and things along those lines. But I don't consider myself a reader of these texts. As of right now I don't really have any questions about these texts. I just hope to have fun in this class and learn more about everything in general since I'm not really familiar with any of it.