Graphic Novel

I created a graphic novel recently and it was a great experience. Not only was it different to write for something that wasn't in an essay format for once but it was also fun to explore something in a different perspective. I had to choose certain words and scenes that I though would best illustrate the message I was attempting to convey. I chose these words because of the way I personally experienced high school and how I felt the way the teachers taught was so horrific that we had to learn everything on our own anyway. I felt there wasn't really much of a point of going to school. I also see society heading in this direction and in the future I believe that this could eventually happen. I chose the points I chose to highlight, by seeing how I could get the message across in the easiest way possible- which was by using blatant and obvious people and settings. I didn't want to hide the message or have the audience possibly get confused which is usually what happens in a lot of political cartoons that have to be analyzed. I wanted to get the message across to the reader and show the problems with our classrooms today and the upsides and also downsides of technology. It not only helps us learn better, but it makes us lazier at the same time and making teaching and classrooms obsolete can lead to lazier future generations. This is why the type of teaching done has to change. We need to engage kids in the lectures more and make them really able to understand the material. Help them take away something from it and not just tell them to "look it up at home or in their book". This is no way to teach and if we all this to continue, we are only leading the youth to a frightful future. I wanted to make the comic appealing to the audience by having the kids facial expression easily recognizable but also having the words they say and think are easily able to see what goes through a teenagers mind. Also I wanted to present to the audience what could happen in one hundred years if bad teaching methods persist.