First off i would like to say that i have never really followed all the news, history, debate over Israel and Palestine, so to me this was very interesting. Also i feel as we have discussed in class that in America or other places too even im sure we have this negative image of people from middle east constituently shoved down our throats an so many grow up with this typical image of an evil man with machine guns and a women in a veil with no important opinions. I feel this comic shows that yes those people do exist but more often then not most the people are just people like everybody just living through different struggles then we do and struggles that honestly most of us probably couldn't bare.
To go over the "comic" aspect of the novel i found it easy enough to follow the panels through the story, and most the time it was easy enough to see the imagery with the exception of a few panels where it got very busy, but the busy was for a purpose, like to show the darkness in the story when the man was in a room when arrested in palestine and he was hallucinating his child dead due to lack of food water or sleep. Also after you pointed out that he signs somewhere on most every page i couldn't help by go and look and try to find them in all the pages, some were very obviously placed at the bottom corners but some were hiding in their.
I liked that Sacco told stories that he heard from others while their and drew them out. Even though he was not their and can not specifically know how everything appeared i think it added a lot to the story to hear these stories from the families and people he met during his time in Palestine.
Also as discussed inc lass as well, the conclusion very inconclusive as said in class. weather that was for a purpose i do not know if it is to show that the story really is not over, his time in Palestine may be over, but everything- he has seen and heard will continue to happen
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