The Crow is Despair

Despair means loss of hope, someone or something that causes hopelessness. The graphic novel, The Crow is an exact example of the word despair. The crow is about a man that loses his wife to some thugs when his car broke down. First they shoot him in the head but he dint die, and then they try to rape his wife, but instead they cut her head off. After the death of his wife his heart was torn in to pieces. He felt mad because he promised her nothing would ever happen to her. He wanted revenge for the murder of his wife by killing all the guys that were there that night. Eric felt lonely and hopeless without his wife in his life.

 Some examples of the book were it shows despair is when Eric see's a white horse running free in the wild, but then at some point the horse is running and doesn’t notice there is barbwire and gets tangled and hurt. Eric cry’s like he’s lost something that’s valuable to him and it’s his happiness. Eric felt hopeless and tangled in his heart that he lost that one person that made him feel happy. Eric lays down in the couch thinking about his wife, and all the happy times he’s had with her. This is a moment of despair for Eric because he sleeps in the couch all alone.  When he has a big bed in his room but doesn’t go there because it reminds him of her. He stares into the ceiling just wondering how things could’ve been different if she was still alive.

Another example is when Eric holds his head, grinding his teeth, eyes griming closed and all he hears is “why are you doing this to yourself?”. This scenario is dark and a moment of despair where Eric wants to stop thinking about everything. He hates remembering everything that had happened in the past because it makes him even more frustrated, and makes him feel lonely. He knows he’s only hurting himself by thinking about his dead wife.Eric sits down near the window also looking out, with his arms crossed across his legs, the mood is dark colored in his house the only thing giving light inside is the light from the outside coming in through the window. Giving a sensation that he wants to be alone. This is also a scene of despair because Eric looks sad, and hopeless, just wondering about something looking out.  The house also looks like a mess, the little tree he has next to him is dead with nothing on it, almost a sign of he doesn’t care about anything no more.

How is the Crow a book about DESPAIR? The book can be compared with the word despair, because after the death of his wife the crow has no hope of living, his heart was broken. The scenes in the story are equivalent to the word despair, there are Some parts were his house is a mess and isnt taken care of, laying down looking into nowhere feeling hopeless without a chance of living life like he was with his wife. He feels mad and lonely, since she was his everything. Every night he sits in his house crying, and remorse of all the good times he had with her.

                                 

The Mask

The artist gave Eric (the crow) a mask that looked more like a tragedy, but to the side of the mask he drew sort of a smiling face trying to almost hide the pain and comparing them both. Eveytime time Eric is in his house he remembers all the good times he had spent with his wife, and then brakes down crying. It's almost like a movie that starts of good, and happy, but then at the end you see the reality and it hurts even more. I think the artist drew the mask this way so that the readers can see that Eric is in pain from losing his wife and everything he had, but at the same time the smiling face is a way to hide his feelings from it, and even can be a pleasure he has of putting fear or killing criminals that do harm to others. An example of this is when Eric (the crow) is driving Tom Tom crazy, he cuts the lights of speaking to him in the dark, circles all around him, Tom Tom desperately scared shooting anywhere he heard noise. The Crow kept laughing and taunting Tom Tom, and then Tom just fell to the ground giving up, looking helpless against the Crow. The Crow looked as if he was powerful putting fear into Tom eyes. The mask are a way of showing his feelings, because at one point in his life he was happy with everything he had, everything was great, but then after the death of his wife everything had turned into tragedy, his life was a wreck, and full of anger.

Both eric (the crow) from the story is viewed the same way as a crow has been viewed for centurys even by native americans, which is as a trickster, a villain, and also a superhero. The crow is seen as a person that only cares for himself after the death of his wife. Which comparing to a real crow it is know to be cruel and has no regards for anyone but himself. Eric (the crow) is a very deceit person that only goes around the night killing or putting fear in criminals eyes with his face covered all in white with his eyes covered with black paint wearing a long black jacket almost as a disguise to hide in the dark. Crows are also know to be a master of deceit in diguises, which lets the crow carry on his tendency to tease or annoy. Because the author trys to compare both he gives the comic a dark vibe of tention, or also for the ability for eric to hide. But other than that in the story Eric (the crow) is also looked as a hero, because he goes around killing criminals that terror the city. Threw out century the crow has been know by native americans as a hero, or the reason of the beginning of mankind.

My name is Oscar Cardozo and this is my blog chill spot

Hi, my name is Oscar Cardozo, I'm 18 years old, and Ive been in Voyages High School for 2 years. My Experience here has been great. I have learned many things threw out these years, like improving in my English writing, and reading skills. Frances Bolton, one of the best English teacher as others, have introduce me many different experiences in English class.


Sometimes its been a struggle, and sometimes its been fun. one of the most important things I have accomplished with her help is pass the English regents. Chris our second teacher in class, has also been a very exciting, and funny teacher that always knows how to convert boring things into fun things. Which has been a great help for me threw out my school years.


In my last three months at Voyages I plan to put all my effort into graduating. One of my last classes of English is with Frances and Chris that will be teaching Graphic Novels. I know it will be challenging because threw out my life I havent read much comic books, and even though there isn't a lot of words to read Ive notice that the illustration to comics brings out the best of them, and you have to learned to see it in a different perspective to understand it more clearly. I plan to get a lot out of this class, improve my writing, analyzing comics, improve my reading, and many more things that can come along the class.


                                                  

This picture is of Spiderman. One the greatest comic book superhero character I have read. Hes a young student with a bright future in day, but when theres crime involved spiderman was there to resolve it. Spiderman was a hero for the city, when he was there he brought fear to the criminals eyes. His superpowers never really let him down as much but when it did Spiderman would use his intellegence to solve anything one thought couldn`t be solved. One of the most famous phrases to be said in the comic book of Spiderman is "With great power, comes great responsibility".