Author: Yadur

The Halfa Kucha presentation was a very challenging yet rewarding task. Frankly, due to having many ideas on Spinning and Stitches as a whole, I do feel I chose an overtly ambitious topic, overestimating how long 3 minutes and 20 seconds actually was; this time seemed generous at first; however, I ended up needing more […]

The revised literacy narrative allowed me to fix the choppiness I perceived in my old narrative by adding new content and revising old paragraphs, making them more concise. Creating my comic enabled me to emphasize key moments and identify them. I then put greater emphasis on these moments throughout the essay and attempted to make […]

The school bus hummed to life that day at 3:24, still oscillating in its constant rhythm against the dust-tinged air and occasional sprinkle of chatter around me. Wedged into a nook, cozying into myself, I opened Eragon by Christopher Paolini. Its Dragons Eye beckoned me from across the library halls; I accepted its embrace, as […]

Trauma leaves an intangible constant mark on those it affects, shaping their identities and emotional states. This is captured in both Spinning and Stitches via the visual language of graphic novels. In Stitches, Daves’s descent into dark carve acts as symbolism for his involuntary deep retreat into fear, a feeling of helplessness perpetrated by generational […]

Attached is page 272 of Spinning, wherein Tillie goes on a skate to introspect.

Attached is my annotated page 63 where David retreats into himself as a result of his trauma.

Creating a comic adaptation of my literacy narrative was a process I underestimated; I initially assumed I simply needed to draw a few panels that represented my emotions in a proper manner and choose phrases/that provided context to the reader. However, over time, I realized that the shift from textual to visual storytelling required a […]