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Visual Recognition

Have you ever read a book that has so many characters that the author must meticulously describe with many details and quirks that you just became annoyed of the book. This has happened to me countless times. Something that could resolve this issue is by adding pictures of how the characters look. This can go a long way in better understanding a character. This also feeds into the point on why there should be more of a mix of images and pictures in modern literature, weather it be just to introduce characters or to introduce the setting, a small change like this can go a long way instead of reading two pages of the author just describing a scene or character and nothing happening. This way of thinking can be traced back to our childhoods when we learned that reading books with no pictures was a sign of growing up. The books that we "Finally arrive at 'Real' books, those with no pictures at all"(McCloud 808). Even so, we still see instances of images being mixed with words everywhere. A popular place to see a bright example it to look no where else but billboards on the freeway. A good example of of words working in harmony of visuals is here.

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This is described as a "montage, where words are treated as integral parts of the picture"(McCloud 811). This really caught my eye and if you took out the visual or the words, the billboard will loose the meaning it holds. This is why it is important to not shy away from ingratiating visuals into text to enhance the meaning.

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  1. Matthew ChenSeptember 29, 2019 at 11:05 AM

    First of all, I like the typo in the first line of the blog ("Luthur"). Also I liked the way you added small quotes from the book in your blog. It shows that you are using the quotes to prove your point instead of just analyzing it. Good Job, Ajay!

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  2. caden chamboSeptember 29, 2019 at 11:15 AM

    i think this was a great topic to discuss upon. You made a really great argument towards helping the reader understand the book better. The connection you made to billboards was very good as well.

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