Topic > Daytriper by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ma - 856

People rarely read the back covers of books, because they are usually full of words of praise or mini-reviews that add nothing else to the story. However, in the book Daytripper by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ma, the importance of the back cover is significant, because it asks a simple question: what are the most important days of your life? In this life we ​​are giving a lot of things to read both to friends and family and at school. Daytripper was a good choice to put on the required reading list for the English department at the University of North Florida. It was an excellent choice because the graphic style and presentation add value that other literary works do not. Along with the art style, the intricate use of narrative devices, such as Bras' symbolic deaths, give the book a unique presence. The presence of color in our world is a wonder that most of us enjoy. Daytripper is a rare flower even by comic book standards; this is because they use a colorist Dave Stewart. What Stewart adds to the Daytripper experience is the realism of life. Color is how most of the world goes about their day, and one of the most colorful countries in the world is Brazil. The bright, vibrant colors of Brazil are subtly captured by Stewart. The bright blue of the waters off Salvador (Moon and Ma 40-42) adds to the richness of Bras' experiences with Olinda as the color blue symbolizes freedom and new beginnings. The freedom of blue is mixed with great use of orange, especially in the many scenes where bras can be seen at dusk. Orange (Moon and Ma 36) is linked to energy without aggression. This energy is easily seen in Bras: he is calm, cool and collected, but he has this vibrant energy around him like his father did on... middle of the paper... and because it changes too. At first Bras feels that his father cared little about him (Moon and Ma 13) as he had forgotten his birthday. However everything changes at the end of his life when he receives a letter from his father (Moon and Ma 242) in which his father expresses his love to his son and what it means to be a father. These evolving relationships are the latest in an exquisite series of features that make this book a wonderful addition to the English department. The English department would be foolish not to add it to their required readings because of its unlikely combination of art and storytelling. The masterful use of color to engage the reader by adding meaning is magnificent. The unique elements of the plot make it enjoyable as well as insightful. Both of these elements help make the question more interesting: what are the most important days of your life??