Examine characterization, character actions, circumstances, events, and abstract quantities like virtue and justice.

Before you begin writing, analyze A Contract with God by Will Eisner. Look for its argument. What is it claiming about the world, about human nature, about how truth can be gained or about how the rules of society are meant to operate? Use the text and art to support larger claims for which the author seems to be arguing. Examine characterization, character actions, circumstances, events, and abstract quantities like virtue and justice.Examine the word choices and dialogue elements as well as the visual presentation of colors, panels, text boxes, and artist’s style.Examine how speech is tailored to each character, how the setting is visualized, how concepts are conveyed in words and images, and how nature is represented.Connect the use of language and image to the theme you chose earlier: how do the author and artist manipulate language and image to underscore the work’s themes? To what end?

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