Shaun tan interview the arrival7/1/2023 ![]() The visual references suggest that this new land was America, although surreal images depict this territory that seems to have no real correspondent. They live in a dark landscape, a dragon haunted city so the father decides to leave home and take a journey to a faraway land to create a better life.Ī photograph with the family together will give the father the strength to cross the ocean and find the land of opportunities. Our protagonist is a man in his thirties, married and with a little daughter. The book opens with a collage of people’s faces, different nationalities, ages, skin colors together they make the ubiquitous portrait of the immigrant. The story can reveal itself distinctively to each reader while speaking about the character’s attempt to find a better existence, to preserve identity and to keep family together. As readers, we are forced to walk into the protagonist’s shoes and interpret the symbols and metaphors in our own way. ![]() The black and white or sepia pictures replace all dialogues and thoughts. ![]() The Arrival is a complex artistic book with no words that tells a universal story – the story of each immigrant. Once I have read The Singing Bones I knew that the saying One good book leads to another is perfectly true. ![]()
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