Graphic Novel Response

The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde graphic novel is much different from the novel when considering the lack of detail in the graphic novel and the overwhelming amount in the original novel. However you are able to understand and view the details in the graphic novel. Another great difference between the two books is the amount of imagination you get to put into the story to make it your own when reading the novel you can imagine how everything looks and how exaggerated the actions are but with the graphic novel it flat out shows you exactly how everything should look. Some of the differences are good and some are bad it really just depends on if you want to be able to make up a world when reading a book and make the people and city look the way you see it in your head. Or have it showed to you so you know exactly how it is supposed to look so that it makes sense when reading the story. If you thought of a character looking a certain way and then you see how the author intended the character to look and it is completely different it might make you like the book less. A graphic novel can enhance a novel’s message in many different ways. Obviously it is a graphic novel because it has many pictures to illustrate the author’s depiction of the characters and the scene. This helps to enhance the message because you are actually able to see what the author is saying. For example if the author said, “… and then the man swung at the monster and knocked its teeth straight out of its mouth.” There would be and illustration that went along with this text showing you exactly how the man swung and all of the emotion behind both the man and the monsters actions to what is going on. There are also many ways in which you can graphically design this scene in a graphic novel as well that will also help the reader more understand the message. If the text is very large and in a way screaming at you then the scene is most likely an important and exiting one. If it is small and very plain looking than it may also be very important but unexciting and just two people exchanging words. The graphics in the novel are just as important there are numerous amounts of ways to show emotion, excitement, and drama through the faces the colors and the way in which the image is drawn. If the image is drawn with a sloppy hand you will think differently than if it was drawn with a careful more precise hand. Along with making the reader understand the message of the novel it can also make them more confused in certain ways like reading out of order because the graphic novel tends to jump around on the page and it is very easy to skip a box or read out of order. With so much going on in a graphic novel with illustrations everywhere and words jumping out at you the image may become less important to a reader that is more interested in the artwork that is put into the book.