ART3990 typography: 2010

Monday, December 6, 2010

NARRATIVES

In the first spread it tells about her depressed mood and I used old typeface with graphics. It has dark mood and depressed so I added a black hand and black lines which means her mood.

For this, I used modern typeface. It tells about Roz's betray and a her cold hearted person so I choice modern typeface.

In the third spread, I used san serif typeface because it tells her experience and past.
This chapter is not that serious and dark, but it has dark side in her experience so I added black lines as background with colorful graphics which imply her personality.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

Summary

The Robber Bride offers a startlingly human look at the underlying reasons and results of the feminist movement of the 1960s. The novel interweaves the stories of its three female protagonists as it pieces together the history of their common enemy, Zenia. Tony, a history professor who specializes in battles, sets out to chronicle Zenia's life story as a series of battles.

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Point of View

The Robber Bride is approached from a historical point of view. History professor Tony serves as the overall narrator, although Charis and Roz, in turn, provide their personal accounts of Zenia as well. Tony gathers their three stories together in an attempt to create a historical chronicle of Zenia's life. The key to understanding the point of view in The Robber Bride is Tony's belief that the dead are in the hands of the living.

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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Friday, November 26, 2010

The Robber Bride

During their most recent outing, three friends see Zenia, a long-dead university classmate who had stolen, one by one, their respective beaux. The novel alternates between the present and flashbacks featuring the points of view of Tony, Charis, and Roz, respectively. Zenia has given each woman a different version of her biography, tailor-made to insinuate herself into their lives. No one version of Zenia is the truth, and the reader knows no more than the characters.
Their betrayals by Zenia are what initially bring the three together as friends and bind their lives together irrevocably; their monthly luncheons began after her funeral. The novel, like other works by Atwood, deals with power struggles between men and women; it is also a meditation on the nature of friendship, power, and trust between women. Zenia's character can be read as either the ultimate self-empowered woman, a traitor who abuses sisterhood, or simply a self-interested mercenary who cunningly uses the "war between the sexes" to further her own interests. One reading posits Zenia as a kind of guardian angel to the women, saving them from unworthy men.
Atwood claims that of all the characters she has written, she identifies most "with Zenia. She is the professional liar, and what else do fiction writers do but create lies that other people will believe?"
In the novel's present, Roz, Charis, and Tony finally each individually confront Zenia in a Toronto hotel room, where she tells each of them that the men they'd been with got what they deserved, and gives various versions of her earlier staged death, each as implausible as the accounts of her life. One of the four women never leaves that hotel alive. The novel itself leaves the reader questioning who was (or were) the victim(s) of life.

Remembering Raquel

Ever wonder how will you be remembered by your friends and colleagues? Will they remember how much fun you were at parties, or how smart you were? Have you made enough of an impression to even be remembered? Remembering Raquel by Vivian Vande Velde explores these questions and more. Raquel was not a popular girl. She had very few close friends and did not stick out in school by being the smartest, funniest, or dumbest in class. When she dies in a freak accident, her family, friends and classmates give you their impression of how she was viewed by them. She would be surprised at the things some of them said. I bet we all would be surprised by what people say about us.