The human emotion in narrative

          In both Will Eisner's Contract with God and Craig Thompson's Blankets, the human emotion is pushed with body language and strong dialogue. Facial expressions with dramatic lighting dominate Eisner's piece, and surreal imagery and body language are very present in Blankets. Both of these apply to both works, but I felt the concentration for each was as previous stated. 

  In both, the drama is all human problems, but is made larger by the body language and manner of storytelling. Contract with God is told as a story from the past, made present like a memory being remembered, perhaps in this way, the exaggeration of body and face is pushed to better tell the story. In Blankets, it is told from a first person past tense, but because of the first person POV, the imagery is greatly distorted to fit the character/artist's thoughts. 

     I Connected with Craig on a personal level while reading and had trouble putting down my iPad, which I was reading it from. The story felt so real and personal and I related and felt incredibly close to Craig. His social discomfort and victimization by the bullies reminded me of my middle school and high school life, even extending into my present life at school. I felt for him when he tried to go with the avoidance tactic, rather than confront the bullies, usually imagining them literally eating excrement or dying. On the same emotional level, but lighter and more warm tone, his relationship with Raina when he first visits her in Michigan made me feel the exact emotions and made me miss walking in the snow and falling back into the static snowflake silence that I am so very used to having lived in both Michigan and New York my whole life up until College in Florida.