1
The
illustration has a lot of detail, it’s realistic but it’s also kind of
cartoonish because some of the expressions are overdone. I enjoyed the artwork
more than the book itself I feel like it’s fitting to the story. There are a
few time when she shows the story better than the words tell it.
2
This
felt like more of a children’s book to me. It could’ve worked just as well as a
short story. Although the images added to the story the story had a lot of
words and wasn’t like the traditional graphic novel. I feel like the
expressions on Gemma’s face had to be shown in images. Otherwise we probably
wouldn’t picture her the same throughout the story.
3. The
narration is by one person, Raymond Joubert. He’s reading Gemma’s journals as
he is also talking about his life parallel to what was happening in Gemma’s.
There are a few times when we see her journal entries, the font changes and we
know that it’s straight from her. With him doing the parallel thing it really
shows his character and how much he was obsessed with Gemma. I found it creepy
in some parts. There was a section of him thinking about her while she was
being intimate and he made the comment that the idea pleased him, it was
something along those lines. If he wasn’t telling the story we would just get
her journals and that wouldn’t add anything to the story, readers would
probably lose interest.
4. The
frames of Gemma’s face on pages 36 and 37 represent her very well. She is
always making this face, because she is never happy unless she is with someone
she is having an affair with. These two pictures of her are on pages right next
to each other. The one on left was her expression whenever the house they lived
in was old and they found a new leak she was unhappy with her life with her
husband. The next one on the right side she was unhappy with some of her
“friends” that she had. She was daydreaming about what she wanted at that time.
The frame of her thinking back on her affair on page 54 makes her smile. She
was thinking about it at the end of her dinner party, but the affair had
happened for the first time earlier that day. She had been with her husband for
years and when she thought about him he disgusted her and her memories were
never nice, but her thinking about this guy she met only hours before made her
happy. I just found that comical and the illustrations made it work well for
me. The pictures of Charlie on page 40 described him very well as well. He was
oblivious to his wife’s unhappiness and her affairs. He always had the dorky
grin. This passage is when Gemma is griping about things she didn’t like in her
life. Charlie was number 5 on the list. I thought the illustrations were
interesting because she didn’t like him yet he still looked happy and didn’t
care about anything his wife was going through. The picture at the bottom of
page 44 of Raymond Joubert when he was watching her stood out to me as well.
During this part he was reading about her day in her journal and he was
remembering his own memories of her that day. He was seriously obsessed with
her and everything she did. He was creepy throughout the story but at this
point the audience got to see him looking at her walk through
town. It made me think about everything else he might’ve done that he didn’t
fess up about.
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