Hello class,

While I was reading everyone’s blogs today, my eye was caught by Amy’s blog title “horrifying normalcy”. She argues that we are becoming so used to violence of nowadays that we have the tendency to not be impressed by it as much. I definitely agree with Amy because, although I have never thought about it before analyzing the two graphic novels Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi and Safe Area Gorazde, by Joe Sacco, I now realize how having to read these stories about two different wars, all in black and white makes the difference. I personally found that I had to pay much more attention in order to understand the difference in the use of black, since I had to distinguish it from normal shades to blood. Especially in these days, violence is portrayed everywhere, on the news on the television, in video games, on the newspapers..Our eyes do not fully stop on the images so that we can register them and be bale to remember them. However we skip through these images because they are considered “too violent” or “too heavy to internalize”.

-Benedetta F.