Vietinamerica

In vietnameria you hear the perspective of many people. It is easy to tell when you are hearing from a new character. Each new character brings a new element to the story and rushes you with new emotions.  

When the story will switch to a new perspective the drawing style will change, as well as the font in which the dialog is presented. This gives you a clear idea of the voice and tone of each character.

The story focuses on many characters, with Thi Mot the pictures will be graceful and the dialog will be in characteristic cursive. While we hear from the prespective of Tri Tron the lines are rough, straigtened, darkened and rigid. The dialog is a strong bold print.

After ever After Sam Griffith

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Sam Griffith

After ever after

In After ever After, there is clearly a group separate from the rest of the world. The book details cancer patient’s separation from the world. It talked of how people who were outside of the patient bubble reacted to them and how they treated them. It also explained how having cancer affects you and separates you from the rest of the world.

People seem to be scared of Jeffrey and his best friend Tad. They have both been though chemo therapy and survived cancer. Now they are treated almost like a time bomb, at any minute they become deadly and explosive. Family members look at them differently and are more cautious around them. Kids at school are always giving strange sympathetic looks. People are afraid of offending them for any reason. Because of this they get special perks. When they miss homework teachers will let it slide, athletes take pictures with them, and celebrities give signatures and shake their hands. However, very few people want to hang out with a kid who has gone through cancer and could experience all over again.

Cancer also affects you as an individual. Tad is a prime example. All of the harsh and scaring procedures tad has left him in a wheel chair. More importantly, it has left him cynical and sarcastic. He makes crude comments and harshly judges and teases the people around him.  He makes fun of songs written about cancer that are supposed to support him. He has become a salty and stale mess. He makes fun of his best, and only, friend.

You learn from After ever After that cancer creates separate groups of people. While the whole world fears cancer patients and pushes them away, some cancer patients fear the world and push themselves away.