Feed – Claire Nastari

I thought it was really cool how McCloud explained about how there are three types of vision: vision based on what one cannot see, the vision of that which has already been proven, and vision of what can be true but is unproven. He also mentioned how life comes down to four basic principles: learn from everyone, follow no one, watch for patterns and work like hell. He mention that he fell far from the tree in regards to his dad and his siblings because they are super smart biologists and chemists and he is just a comic book artist. Later in his talk he tells us that he actually didn’t fall far from the tree because him and his brothers and sisters are all embracing their nature.

I read “Feed” for my genre series and it is very different than the books I have read for this class. It is the kind of book that starts off throwing you into the deep in and hopefully you will understand what is going on. The characters have their own language which is not explained so you have to figure it out for yourself which leaves you lost in much of the first couple chapters. This book allowed me to get deeper into the novel and understand it before I could give up.

I could imagine using comics in the classroom to reiterate creativity. Even if the students in my class are not artists or do not enjoy drawing they are given the task of creating their own story. Their pictures can be stick figures if they would like but they would need to create dialogue and a story line for this assignment. I’m not sure how I would use drama in the classroom except to act out a book or a scene from a book that the class is reading. Maybe it could be a scene they are having trouble understanding so the visualization would help them in their cognition of the material.