'This is me when I was 10 years old. This was in 1980....Then came 1980: the year it became obligatory to wear the veil at school. We didn't really like to wear the veil, especially since we didn't understand why we had to' (3, Satrapi)
'My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,057' (3, Haddon)
Even though these stories are similar in the fact that it tells a persons story from their point of view, but how does the delivery differ and what does that delivery do to each story as a whole?
When first reading Satrapi's The Complete Persepolis, I had a sense of awe as I realized that I felt more emotion due to the drawings in each panel. This gave me more of a connection to the main character even though I have not experienced many, if any, of the events she has. This connection is what continued to drive me to continue reading the novel. But in "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", even though the story is still about a person and what happens to them, the tact for this novel is different. This novel dives into the mind of a teen with Aspergers that has such a disconnect with its readers, that it has actually become just as interesting as the previous novel. This disconnect perfectly reflects the real life social condition. Because of this, the novel becomes more believable, therefore more interesting. Pictures further accentuate the idea of someone who can not express themselevs only through words. The same can be said for the previous novel, only the pictures give more emotion. Both novels give amazing insight to the minds of two different people by using two different ways of delivery.
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