![]() ![]() ![]() Choosing black and white over color emphasizes the stark and bleak world Melinda is living in physically and emotionally. So much of the book is Melinda’s thoughts and impressions, and Carroll does an incredible job translating this to the page. Since Melinda can’t bring herself to talk about what happened to her, this translates into difficulty speaking to almost everyone. Canadian cartoonist Emily Carroll, an Eisner-winning webcomic artist, uses a mix of realism, comics, and horror to bring Melinda’s world to life. Speak: The Graphic Novel distills Anderson’s writing down, keeping the story essentials and the beauty of her writing and using her evocative descriptive passages to create the art. Since a major theme and the plot of the book involves art, it was an obvious choice for a graphic novel adaptation. Anderson’s beautiful language and honest teenage voice made this book a huge hit, and its content made it a target for book banning. In 1999, Laurie Halse Anderson published Speak, her debut novel and a masterpiece of YA literature that not only dealt with a teenage girl’s trauma in aftermath of rape, but also the other realities of being a teenager, mundane, silly, and tragic. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |