Graphic Novels

It was a great experience reading the two graphic novels American Born Chinese and Naruto: The Tests of the Ninja. Even though both these books were similar because they were graphic novels, these novels also had some differeneces. When it came to text and dialouge both novels were pretty similar, they were easy to read and easy to understand who was saying what. They also had a pretty similar way of using rhetorical techniques because it was very obvious using differen angles and frames how they portrayed the different characters and action.

American Born Chinese has colorful and extremely easy to follow when it came to visual features and the general layout and design. I could easily tell who was what character and what was going on. Naruto, however, was extremely difficult for me to understand. I did not like the reading backwards becaues I kept getting messed up and confused, so the general layout and design did not help me while I was reading. Naruto also was difficult to see because of all the drawing in each of the frames. There was so much drawing that I had difficulty identifying who was what character and where they were.

Overall, I really did enjoy reading the two books. American Born Chinese was a really cute story. I liked the way the author had 3 stories going on and then they all ended into one story. Naruto was difficult to understand at first, but when I finally figured it out it was pretty cool. I almost wanted to get the second book to see what happened next. Who knows maybe I will check it out once I go home for summer.