Wednesday, August 24, 2011

The Arrival

I really enjoyed reading the Arrival it was interesting and I thought it was really amazing the way that just by showing the story in pictures could get the whole story across. I think what I loved most about it was that this book can be understood by many different people who speak many different languages. Everyone has family struggles, and the family struggle that is shown here was really common for the time that the book was set it. But through time, meeting new people, seeing new things and a lot of hard they all get to be happy again. The illustrations were beautiful I loved how they represented framilar places to me but that they were still abstract enough to be an unreal place of mystery and different beauties.
The book was really consistant everything followed the grid, which made the flow of the images easy to follow. I especially loved how when the man from the beginning of the book with the wife and daughter, when he is on the boat and they show time pass, by showing weather, and differences from light and dark in coloring to show the passing of days.