Lit. of Comics

Reading "The arrival" by Shaun Tan was really refreshing; I hadn’t read that many comics with no dialogue but with this one I didn't really notice there was no dialogue until I was a little further ahead in the story. I felt very invested in the story and could easily relate to some of the themes of migration and foreign customs. I was born and raised in Puerto Rico with English being my second language, coming to the United States for the first time when I was a freshman at Ringling was something very scary for me. I had no family or friends in the U.S. that I could fall back on whenever I felt too homesick. It was just me. “The arrival” really demonstrated how this feels in the story with having the environment be drastically different than the former. The main character had to adjust to his new surroundings, which resembled nothing he had already been used in his home country. Creating this tone of uncertainty, reminiscing on old times in hopes

1) A woman is dancing next to a chicken that’s sitting on a sphere in the streets. 2) A half-bird man is staring at a woman performing an exorcism. 3) A naked woman is at a funeral accompanied by several animal creatures. 4) A naked woman is on the ground kind of shaking in pain, she’s probably cold, while an animal creature reads a scroll. 5) The woman is murdered or sacrificed while some roosters are left on her bed. 6) The woman appears to be dancing or performing for another woman while the animal creature looks at her in secret.