Victor Hugo (Research)

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Why his work engages me

-His work is poetic 
-His work is historical
-I love reading about history as its really interesting

Biography

Victor Hugo was a French Poet, novelist and dramatist of the romantic movement
He was born 26th February 1802, Besançon France and died 22nd May 1885 Pars, France (aged 83)
He is buried in Panthéon, Paris
He had 5 children:  Léopold Victor Hugo, Léopoldine Hugo, Charles Hugo, François-Victor Hugo, Adèle Hugo
He was married to Adèle Foucher (m 1822 D 1868)
political party: Party of order (1848-51), Independent liberal (1871), Republican Union (1876-85)
The genre he wrote in is Novel, Drama, Theater, Poetry
His notable works are Hernani, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ruy Blas, Les Chatiments, Les Contemplations, Les Legende des sicles, Les Miserables, Toilers of the sea.

Why his writing interests me 

His writing interests me because is work is historical and he writes how life was in France and how people were treated, he also had political views in France.

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20 minute stories

Mind-reading Moon Child

There once was and always will be a mind reading moon child called Kimchi, who lives on the moon (obviously), Kimchi was a lonely soul he had no friends mainly because he lived on the moon and was named after a food, Kimchi was the only child on the moon as far as he knew, everyone else was either an adult or was elderly. Anyway one night Kimchi was having difficulty trying to mind read and he had no idea why, “Ahhh KIMCHI” he yelled.

Troll, Prince and The Haunted house

“Well I’ve been here for a long time” Prince said with the look of excitement on his face “since the year of 1999, wow that was the best year with crazy parties” he said to himself, Prince lived by himself sadly but he seems okay with it. All of a sudden, it came to his surprise that he hasn’t seen the light of day before which was strange as he’s lived there for years. Magically out of nowhere the haunted house started to talk, “Mr troll man, why did you let me live inside you its horrible in here, let me out” Prince looked around trying to find where this voice could of possibly come from, but it made sense as he doesn’t live in reality.
“Oh this is why I haven’t seen daylight, its because I live in a haunted house, which lives in a live troll” Prince thought
“Wow I feel like I’m in some sort of fairy tale” he said to himself sarcastically, but its true he was in some sort of fairy tale.

Frog, Mermaid, Bow and Arrow

There once was a mermaid who lived on land, “Wait there was a mermaid who lived on land” questioned frog mans frog daughter “yes” replied frog man, “now let me carry on”. There once was a mermaid who lived on land and lived a normal life, However the mermaid didn’t like that she lived on land and she wanted that to change.
“Can I carry on reading?” Asked frog daughter 
“Sure” said frog man
Mermaid walked to the beach front and dived in, she saw something glistening at the bottom of the ocean “What is that” she said to herself “Its a bow and arrow, i can use that” Suddenly, she started to choke, then she remembered that she needed the juice of a strong mermaid to be a proper mermaid. As she was swimming back to the surface carrying the bow and arrow whilst thinking what she can do with it.

 

 

Archetypes

The Innocent- Dark/ Crime

Always commits crimes like:
Mass murders
-Shoplifting
-Break-ins
Criminals look up to them – anonymous people
Lives in hyper reality- in real time
Has a dark past: sensitive, takes things too far
Anonymous and always one step ahead of everything

Childhood

-Shoplifting at 15- never got caught
-Hyper reality kicked in
-Very sensitive- always wants to hurt someone for revenge

 

The Ruler- Antagonist

-Leads a small army of people (criminals)
-Think they own everyone and everything
Treats crime like a game: if they break into a house the stuff they steal is like a reward this then motivates them to do more
Treats the town/city like a game board
Hidden in plain sight
wasnt brought up correctly/properly
Always left behind
never got anything- motif to want everyone and everything
Manipulates people into joining their army
Lonely since birth
Never had a father figure/ never had support from anyone
People look through them
No one know who they are

 

The Creator

Works in normal job (owns a business/shop)
Has a family- three children(two boys one girl)
Good person 
The Ruler and The Innocent are inspired by his board games
Oblivious to the innocent and the ruler 
Optimistic
Respects everyone 
65 years old

 

Graphic Novel Review

300

-use of dialogue is minimal and spread inconsistently many scenes are displayed visually rather than described.
-Italics and bold are used heavily to emphasize speech
-Captions are short and frequent on the pages
-Some pages show one large image than several panels
-Other pages show panels within panels, often closeups of characters faces
-Layout of the pages is often non-linear with different spaced panels which is slightly confusing
-The space of the page is used efficiently
-Onomatopoeia is used in captions

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Ghost world

– The story is being told through dialogue, a conversation between two girls 
-The captions and narrative are first person, flowing on from speech of the characters as they describe memories to each other
-The Panels are regular and usually 9 on a page but differently sized
-The images are monochrome and green through out the entire novel
Panel in detail: A woman is sat in a chair reading a news paper/ magazine and watching TV, there is music playing
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Preacher

-Regular panels in boxes, frequently six to a page
-color scheme is basic ans non realistic, purple skin shade on characters
-No captions, all dialogue between characters
-The colors change through out scenes but remain simple

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