Hi, everyone. Happy new year! This is the first blog for this term. And I would like to talk about what I got from Safe Area Gorazde.
In this comic book, Sacco use a special way to present the war and victims in the war as a journalist and a witness of the life during war time. He uses graphic narrative to present the fact in Gorazde during war time. I think these pictures have more powerful expression to readers and at least give me a shock on how cruel war is. Comparing to Persepolis, Safe Area Gorazde has more details and more undisguised expression of the war. In the chapter of The First Attack, Sacco uses a sires of motions expresses the breath-taking abscondence. And during that attack, people saw their neighbors killed in front of them. It really shocked me a lot. The horrible fact is presented to readers. And all victims are innocent. Their death could be avoid, but they didn’t have chance to do that.
Even though it is obvious, I still want to say that the war is such a bad thing. People have to realize it. No matter what the reason is, in my perspective, war is always guilty. It is so cruel, but there are still so may people don’t realize that. They don’t realize that war is not a competition that just have winning or losing. The procession of the war is the worst part, not the result. In the chapter of Silly Girls, Safe Area Gorazde, Sacco mentioned a fact that there are so may people who actually don’t know much about the war and don’t care about those victims in war. People can get information about war from news. But the news only gives out a number of death or the range of the war. People don’t have chance to understand that war can bereave their right of living. Their attentions are more on the result and broad influence of the war. And here is what journalists need to do. Journalism must bring more fact to the public. And not just the abstract facts but also the vivid facts to the public. Only if the public has the sense of empathetic, they can realize how serious the fact is.
