writing assignment class 1

 While reading the story, i saw the rooster as a god trying to understand the emotions of the others and the woman that intereact with him

1.     A woman worships her gods every day. She is tired of this life and the life before her. She has murdered a bystander and offers his body to the god. The god is born

2.     The god lives out his life, but wants to understand the human race more He dissects a woman that was brought to him by his worshiper. He want’s to understand why the humans live with such emotions. 

3.     The woman worshiper has brought another chicken god into this world. This time sacrificing her own daughter. The priestess knows not what she does, but instead has devoted her whole life to her gods.

4.     The gods evolved quickly, many people except them into their kind but not everyone is as nice. The human worshiper demonstrates her mortality, which terrifies her rooster god. He had forgot how human his worshiper was.

5.     Dead, his worshiper, the rooster god is tormented from her death. He finally understands human emotions, looking at her corpse. He doesn’t know who could have murdered her.

6.     He is distraught, and hides away for a long time. He again immerges when he hears laughter, and sees two women.

7.    The Rooster tries to woo the women; he showers them with fine gifts and takes them to finer places.

8.    The women begin to suspect that the rooster is hiding something. They get up during the night to see if anything is wrong. The rooster has evolved further, with an animal like body., the women escape for now.

9.     The women discover the skeletons in the rooster’s closet. They are terrified and escape.

10.    The women are kidnapped out of the train by a gang of roosters

11.    The women are stolen away to be sex slaves to the chickens. The chickens are advancing farther than the humans that came before them.

12.    The woman decides that she has to escape from this hellhole, and makes plans for her and her friend.

13.    They fight off the chickens; one of the girls shot and killed her friend. Although she escaped, she was depressed and deeply affected.

14.    She kills herself; the rooster god is devastated to have finally found the love of his life again, only to see her dead. He demands justice for the women.

15.    The rooster god after long years of fighting the rogue chickens, he has finally had enough. He hangs himself, finally ending his life.

16.    The chickens celebrate the rooster god’s death as a devastating event. Although they act as if they are seeing human’s as equals, it is not true.

Shaun Tan's The Arrival_Week 1

Readying Shaun Tan’s The Arrival was a very interesting journey. The abstract shapes and impossible environment got me hooked right from the first page. It caused the story to be engaging without dialogue. But because the story is told with no dialogue, it was very hard to understand the first time reading through the story. The parts that caused me the most problems were the flash back scenes, because it happened without warning and I was disoriented. But re-reading the story, it was very clear and well organized. The images themselves told more than any dialogue box ever could, and it forces you to enjoy the art than reading the dialogue and forcing the images to come second.

The reason this story works so well without dialogue is because you are traveling to a distant foreign land with the main character. And neither you nor the main character can speak, read or understand the native language, or the culture. You are both exploring the land together, learning how to survive along the way. The story also has an obvious goal; you want the daughter and wife to be reunited with the main character. Small successes like the main character getting himself food and learning how to work with his pet makes the comic feel like there is progressing and you feel happy for the main character.

The abstract and no dialogue caused me to critically think about every image I looked at. What could the symbolism mean? What story is this possible portraying?

If I had to critically analyze this story I would say that it took place during a war, and was about a family trying to make a life a different country. The father doesn’t understand the native in the land or the strange customs that the country could have. The author obviously over exaggerated each aspect of the country to demonstrate the foreignness to any audience that looked at the comic.

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