Tracing Pages Reflection
My reflection of my tracing pages essay.
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The Price of Personal Perception Reflection Post
Here is The Price of Personal Perception. Both Spinning and Stitches explore themes of adolescence and perception, but Stitches addresses the connection between how we perceive ourselves internally and how people perceive us externally, therefore Small understands more thoroughly how he wants to be perceived. Because Small is many years removed from when this novel takes place, whereas Walden has barely moved […]
Read moreThe Secret Language of Self-Identity
Both of the pages analyzed in Stitches and Spinning employ strategic framing within the panels to dictate David and Tillie’s perception of themselves and relationship to those around them. Tillie takes up increasingly more space in each panel on page 337, giving the reader visual signs of Tillie’s acceptance that she is not doing things […]
Read moreThe Price of Personal Perception
As Tillie peers at herself in the mirror in the novel Spinning by Tillie Walden, she resembles the way David looks at himself in Stitches by David Small: she is trying to decipher how she will be seen by others. Tillie is an adolescent girl grappling with her sexual identity and she does not want people to […]
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