My Connection Between Graphic Novels And Narrative Texts

There are 2 different ways of telling a story.Graphic novels tell a story through bright and colourful pictures.Novels, however, use words to tell a story.BUT there is a connection between the two seemingly different yet similar forms of expressing a story.

Graphic novels have pictures of every sort but no words at all.Novels use only words with no pictures.They are different in the way they tell the story yet the content of the story remains unchanged.For example, a animal lover writes about the sad life of a tiger trying to survive in a forest that is shrinking and does not have many animals.The message the author tries to get across is still clear without changing.She would probably write"how the tiger starved,his bones visible through the skin"
A graphic novel probably shows through a drawing of the hungry tiger with a thought bubble showing a picture of animals and how the tiger salivated as he thought of food.
See the connection?

Then there is the point of view.Usually both novels and graphic novels uses the narrator's point of view so you can see everything that is happening clearly.In Zoom, there were many points of perspective until it reaches a point where it seen through the perspective of GOD.A novel can also do the same,letting you see everything using your understanding of the words to visualise the world in the novel and all its characters and their actions. A graphic novel lets you see the world directly with all the pictures there.

That is the connection between the two ways of telling a story.


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