Literature of comics & the graphic narrative course 2020

As soon as I saw the word "Pyongyang" in the list of books to read this week, I started to read this book with a familiar feeling. I am a South Korean, so the word Pyongyang is very familiar, but it is a divided country between South and North Korea, so the South Korean nationality does not have the authority to visit North Korea. So I started to read this book with the idea that I could see the presence of the place where the same culture and history of the past were. "Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea" is a book written by Guy Delisle. Delisle is a Canadian Quebec writer who wrote a book about his two months at a French animation company in Pyongyang, "Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea". North Korea has all the bureaucracy of totalitarian closure, which contains his experience of expressing the difficulties he has experienced in his life in Pyongyang. The overall picture has a monotonous tone, so it was very suitable to express a closed atmospher...

This week I read "American Born Chinese" written by Gene Luen Yang. When I saw these stories at first, I thought that each of them had different contents because three stories were divided. The first story is related to the legend that The Monkey King is the main character. The second is a story about a first-generation immigrant boy named Jin Wang, who is related to school life, and the third is about a Chinese cousin, Chin-Kee, who visited a white boy's school called Danny, the main character. But if you read these stories to the end, you can see that these characters are all the same person. Their journey shows that it is the main content to find their identity. In the middle of the content, the main characters were able to indirectly see the stereotypes about Asians in the United States, but I thought that it was more empathic because I had experienced it in reality. I think that the story is a work that reflects reality because it contains all the ideas of the goo...