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.