Graphic Novel Response Two

The graphic novel is different from the novel in many different ways. One being that it simply provides pictures to give the reader information vital to the story as well as text. These pictures are vital to the difference because it is a totally different way of thinking and remembering what is going on in the story. For example many people study for a test by watching a video on the information, others listen to a tape, and some simply write the information needed down. The graphic novel is great for students that have trouble remembering what is going on in the story just by reading it. So when pictures are involved they are able to recall an image and put the story together in a different way. A second reason as to why these two ways of telling a story are different is that although both use text to describe the story a graphic novel is able to use the text to make the reader pay more attention or less attention to certain sentences, phrases, and words. For example if in the story someone screamed “I’m going to jump” in the novel it would simply state, “and then the man screamed at the top of his lungs ‘I’m going to jump” where as in the graphic novel the illustrators’ and writers are able to play around with the graphic design aspect of the words by using different fonts and size of fonts such as “I’m going to jump!!”. This would be frowned upon in a normal novel because it should be the authors words that make the readers imagination make up how the character says what he says not the way the words are shown. These differences are nothing but good because they define why some choose novels and other chooses graphic novels. It just has to do with your preference and really how your mind works. The examples that where stated previously are also ways in which the graphic novel enhances a novel’s message to a specific audience that focuses more on the artistic aspect of how a story could be presented. However to others who enjoy respect the words of an author and feel that diction and placement of words are what really make a story come alive these artistic traits could make that audience feel that graphic novels struggle to represent the novel’s theme. In some cases even to an artist a graphic novel can miss the theme of a story by how it is presented. Such as if the graphic novel is printed in black and white and made to look as if a sketch artist designed the graphics when what the story it is telling has somewhat of a bright and colorful love theme than the message that the story is showing may be misinterpreted. The same can be the opposite if the story is supposed to have a dark gothic theme and it is printed in the brightest colors with bubbly characters and curvy text that the reader will most likely be confused as to what the story is trying to say.