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The characters who are shaded are those who have suffered.  Because some are unaware to what is going on(shaded) and others realize(white). It shows you how it really was from a different perspective.  He uses a graphic novel to not make it as depressing as the story really is. It might influence the readers to actually research the real Holocaust. " to go, it was not good, but not to go it was also not good." was remembered because that is such a hard decision to make. You know someone is talking because of the bubbles.

If there were no visuals here i would picture the scenes to be much more graphic. The affect would be having the reader think back to what they know or heard about the Holocaust and picture that instead of cartoon characters. These images make it easy to read and understand because it draws the readers attention away from. The images purpose to help the reader focus on the writing.  He sets the tone by letting you know that people have been affected, yet others don't know what is happening. The layers of meaning  I see here are how the author uses cartoons to draw the readers attention away from their thoughts.

The Old Man And The Sea

I chose this image because it is a photo that I took of an old man fishing on the Jacksonville Beach Pier. It reminded me of my favorite novel, The Old Man and The Sea, by Ernest Hemingway. The book is about an old commercial fisherman who was very unsuccessful. He would go out everyday and come back with an empty boat, but he never gave up. One day while he was out at sea he hooked and caught a giant marlin. It was a long and near impossible fight, but he never gave up. i took this photo thinking about the old man and the sea. I remember watching him him fish and when he got a bite the biggest smile would come to his face, but later disappear when he reeled up a small inedible fish. I knew by looking at him and his fishing equipment that he came to the pier everyday and wasn't going to stop until he got his big fish. The photo I took is when he had just reeled up a small snapper and  was angry, but he cast his line back out and was waiting for whatever was down there. The book and this photo encourage me to never give up because everything takes patience.