Week12 Comic by Women

 For this week, I read This One Summer by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki.

 This story is designed to make the reader feel empathy with the main character, who is a little girl in summer vacation. She and her friend’s behavior and mindset are close to the actual children. Even readers have never had the same experience before, they should have the same feelings or behavior as they did in the story.

 Not only their behavior, but it also shows the bare children's mind. One of the elements of it is how vague of the feeling of the adults in the story, while the emotion of the children is easier to understand. There is no additional information about the adult’s thought other than the main character’s monologue. I think this is so realistic as a real-life child. This way of expression forces the readers to think as the main character thinks, which is a typical lack of though in childhood. 

 I also like the relationship and conversation between the main character and her friend. It reminds me of the past time of me and my friend. We were similar to them. Their conflict and how the reconcile are very similar to what we did. They did not have a big war, fight, or fix up a meeting, but they naturally came back to the original relation. I know this timing and atmosphere because it is the same way as us. 

 I think the theme of this comic is “as it is” because the characters in this comic are not exaggerated or decorated as ideal but more natural children. This way of expression attracts readers and makes them feel a lot of empathy with the main characters.