Last Book

The Last book I read was another graphic novel. It was titled Y The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan. This is also a series just like Sweet tooth the series is called Unmanned. That name is really significant because the whole tale is about how there is a freak accident and at the same time all over the world every man, animal and human dies. It is really interesting because there are a lot of key elements that play into this tale that you could use to incorporate into a classroom. This would have to be used in a high school classroom maybe an honors class. But there are politics, science, and obviously huge gender roles to be talked about in this book. Through out the whole book there are a lot of side stories going on through it and at the end they all tie together to lead into the next book. I think the three most interesting parts of this book are first how there is one man who lives but he survives with his pet monkey. You do not find out in the first book why the monkey survives but you do find out that he is going to play a MAJOR role in the following books. Another part that I find interesting is that when all the men die there is a group of females that join together and call themselves the Amazon. They are the revolutionaries of this time. They rome around on motorcycles and take lives, stand their ground they are the rebels that everyone is scared of. They are a cult and to join the cult you have to show your loyalty by not only killing someone and doing whatever the leader wants but you have to also cut off your left breast...it is not explained in depth in this book why they do this but it is expressed that it will be explained later on. The last part that is really interesting to me that I think you can really incorporate in maybe a politics class or something is that when all the men die the whole white house is empty and all the seats are open except one because there was only one women as the seat of environmental processes. Who then got moved up to president because as succession would have it if every seat a head of her dies she would get to be president. But what is really interesting is that there is a small rebel group that is formed to try and burn down the white house and get their power from the republican party. This group consist of the wives of the men who died. I think you could use this to introduce how succession works maybe...This comic book was really interesting and I am really excited to read the rest of the series.

Sweet Tooth

Over break my older brother and I book swapped and he gave me three comic books. I have never really been one for his comic books but I figured I would give them a try because he was reading my books which was a change for him. I just finished the first one last night, it is called Sweet tooth, Out of The Deep Woods by Jeff lemire. The basic story line of this graphic novel is that there is a plague that is slowly killing off all the humans, but when this plague went into activation there was a birth of kids that were born with some kind of animal in them. They were born with antlers, animal skin, fur, hooves..something. Gus is the main character of this novel in the beginning it is only him and his father. They live in the woods together, his mother died of the plague when he was really young. Gus's father tells his to never leave the woods because there is fire and murder and sin out in the world. Every night they pray for their mother that she is okay in heaven and that someday God will take them there to see her. When his father dies, Gus adventures into the woods to bury him next to his mother and at this point in time he gets hunted by two hunters. Luckily, he is saved by Mr.Jepperd who Gus has seen in his dreams before but never in real life. Mr. Jpperd tells Gus that he is not safe and that he needs to come with him. Now being alone with no family, he goes. Mr.Jepperd explains to Gus that there is a lot of people who would pay a lot of money to have someone like him who is half man half animal but that he would protect him and take him to the preserve where all the other ones are begin keep safe. Gus goes with him and along the way gets the nick name Sweet tooth from Mr.Jepperd because at their first meal Gus would not eat any of the meat that Mr.Jepperd was cooking because he did not want to eat another animal, so Mr.Jeppered gave him candy bars. Which Gus loved! As the story progresses they encounter a lot of situations where people try and steal Sweet Tooth, but Mr.Jepperd save's him. But in the end Mr.Jepperd and Gus get to the preserve and Mr.Jepperd turns Sweet Tooth over for a reward that he was promised. The whole story shows that you can not trust anyone except what you were brought up on. That you should trust your instincts and not just believe what some stranger tells you because they have food and say they will project you!
I really like reading graphic novels. Seeing the really detailed pictures to go along with the story really helps to fully understand what the author is trying to get across rather than just going with the images that I create in my head! I am excited to read the next two comic books my brother gave me. I think this is a great way for students who struggle with reading to read. In high school when we were reading The Great Gatsby our teacher has the book in a graphic novel form and each day someone new got to follow along with the graphic novel form. It really helped a lot of my class mates understand better what was going on in the tale. It makes me think if Romeo and Juliet were in graphic novel form would more students understand it better?