Emily Parks

The Arrival  is a story of immigration in a dystopian world. This graphic novel is unusual and the most noticeable part of it is the fact it is entirely wordless and also realistic charcoal drawings.   The wordlessness is very consistent where even when things are written within the story itself they are not legible. The story starts off with a man leaving his family and home in search of work. As the panels show him leaving and pans out to show the surrealism of this world to convey the dark feelings for the challenge that lies ahead of the man. Giants live in this dystopia and represent the judgement and cruelty of the world and struggle to escape. The artist uses a monochrome color scheme of black tan and white which gives more atmosphere and mood to the hardships in this story. When arriving to the new world though he is quickly met with surprising new form of technology, social etiquette. The story shows us his struggles with these and how overcomes it tho