1.7 Self-Assessment: Analyzing Graphic Stories

Take the Time to Look Self-Assessment



©from Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi


  1. Which panels are bigger and smaller in the above cartoon? Why?


  2. In what order do you read the panels?



  3. Does the action seem immediate?



  4. Consider the captions. Is the narrator really missing?



  5. What is happening in the gutter, the space between the panels? The narrator would like us to believe she is absent although we see her in the panel on the left. Does this technique work?



  6. Sometimes in cartoons, words make one claim but the pictures tell us something else. Why do you think this is?






View the visual "At School" on page 64 of SightLines 8.



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