Thursday 27 November 2014

Graphic Novel Analysis (exercise)

1) There's a kid with kind-of shrugged shoulders looking towards a sofa with two men sitting on it, one seems impressed whilst the other one seems to be mad or irritated while he sips on his drink.
The kid looks odd, on a submissive stance, the man on the left looks impressed, and the angle of his head suggests that he turned it in a rather fast movement (impression), while the man on the right looks either mad or disappointed of something.
This is when Amir revealed himself after being eavesdropping on his father talking to his friend about him not being able to stand up for himself.

2) There's a close up of an old bearded man with a pipe on his hand looking towards the kid and saying "Amir..., What are you doing here?", at the background you can see the kid whom appears to have just come down the stairs, he looks really sad and powerless.
By seeing the man's face, I'd say he acts as he was impressed that the kid was there, but doesn't really care about it, and the kid looks really down-ish (not in the sense of the syndrome, but a sad state of mind), also i think that he feels powerless about the situation at all and all he wants is to please the man.
This is the reaction of Baba Khan (Amir's father), after seeing him come down the stairs when he was talking to his friend about him.

3) Here we can see the kid in tears (and trying to hold them in) running towards something while in the background, the man that was sitting on the left side of the sofa stands up and says "Amir wait!".
The kid appears to be really sad and also really connected emotionally with the problem, and the man in the background that stood up, looks like he regrets whatever they just did, he also looks to be rushed by the situation and feels obliged to catch him and talk to him, while the man on the right doesn't care about the situation and doesn't want to get involved.
This is when Amir breaks down in tears in front of his father & friend, and the last one decides to stand up and go get him.

4) Here we can see other kid and a man sweeping the floor, while on the background you can see the kid from before exiting the house he was just in.
The kid and the man look impressed as the kid from the background came out of the house in such a rush, while the kid from the background looks either mad or disappointed.
This is when Amir exits the house after the altercation and encounters Hassan and his father sweeping the floor.

5) There is a man and a kid, both with brooms on their hands.
It looks like the man is holding the kid back, the man looks oddly happy whilst the kid looks like he wants to help with whatever's happening, but can't.
This is when Hassan's father holds Hassan back from getting involved into the other family's problem.

6) There is a man and the kid from before, and the man caught up to the kid, the man says: " Amir, wait, you see... you father didn't mean-" at that moment he gets cut off by the kid who says: " i know, its because of my mother...".
There isn't much to say about this, since there are no faces shown in the frame, but you can see this is very rushed and happened really fast.
This is when Baba Khan's friends catches up to Amir and talks to him.

7) Here you can see the man impressed about something while holding the kid's head with his left hand.
The man looks really impressed, as if the kid said something he wouldn't expect in a million years.
This is the reaction of Baba Khan's friend after he heard the words that Amir spoke.

Conclusion: These are emotion and feel packed frames, where we can see the disappointment of Baba Khan in his son, we can also see that Amir feels powerless about this and assimilates the disappointment on that when he was born, his mother died.